WWI
This secret 1917 message from Germany to Mexico proposed an alliance against the U.S., helping push America into WWI.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
Ratified in 1919, this amendment launched the Prohibition era by outlawing the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature during the 1920s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Between 1916 and 1940, this movement saw over 6 million African Americans leave the rural South for urban North in search of jobs and safety.
What is the Great Migration?
Signed in 1919, this treaty officially ended World War I and imposed territorial losses and military restrictions on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Passed in 1917, this law required American men to register for military service during WWI
What was the Selective Service Act?
This term described the illegal production, distribution, and sale of alcohol during the Prohibition era.
What is bootlegging?
This influential poet of the Harlem Renaissance celebrated the everyday experiences of Black Americans in his work.
Who is Langston Hughes?
n 1921, white mobs destroyed a prosperous Black neighborhood in Oklahoma during this violent racial attack.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
One of the economic outcomes of the Treaty of Versailles was that Germany was required to pay these to the Allied powers.
What are reparations?
Passed during WWI, these two federal laws made it a crime to interfere with military recruitment or criticize the U.S. government and war effort.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This reform movement, largely led by women, sought to curb the social problems caused by alcohol and ultimately pushed for its nationwide ban.
What is the Temperance Movement?
As a prominent editor at The Crisis magazine, she championed the voices of young Black writers.
Who is Jessie Redmon Fauset?
This Jamaican-born activist founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated for Black self-reliance.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Proposed in Wilson’s Fourteen Points, this international organization aimed to maintain global peace, but the U.S. never became a member.
What is the League of Nations?
In this pivotal 1919 Supreme Court case, the justices ruled that speech presenting a “clear and present danger” to national security could be lawfully restricted.
What is Schenck v. United States?
Ratified in 1933, this constitutional amendment ended Prohibition and overturned the 18th Amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment?
A folklorist and novelist, she preserved African American oral traditions and authored Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Sparked by the 1929 stock market crash, this prolonged economic downturn led to massive unemployment, bank failures, and poverty across the United States in the 1930s
What is the Great Depression?
Many senators opposed joining the League of Nations because they believed it conflicted with this traditional American foreign policy approach.
What is isolationism?
Announced in a 1918 speech to Congress, this peace proposal by President Wilson called for open diplomacy, arms reduction, and self-determination for nations.
What are the Fourteen Points?
In this high-profile 1925 trial, a Tennessee teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, igniting a national debate over science and religion in public schools.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Known as the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance," he played a central role in shaping the Harlem Renaissance by promoting Black cultural expression and pride.
Who is Alain Locke?
Caused by years of drought and unsustainable farming practices, this environmental catastrophe devastated the Great Plains and displaced thousands of farming families.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This U.S. president played a central role in the postwar peace negotiations but struggled to gain support for his proposals at home.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?