1920s
a fear that an underground communist revolution would take place in the United States; resulted in the Palmer Raids
The Red Scare
repealed prohibition
21st Amendment
businessman that focused on mass production of cheaper vehicles by improving worker efficiency and popularized the assembly line
Henry Ford
The ability to buy now and pay later
Buying on Credit
The Amendment that outlawed alcohol
18th Amendment
movement of millions of African Americans from rural areas of the South to the urban areas of the North and Midwest
The Great Migration
popular fashion in the 1920s that highlighted women’s body figures
Flappers
President, self-made millionaire, and proponent of individual potential and was blamed for the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
An American far-right white supremacist group
Ku Klux Klan
The year the 19th Amendment was pass
1920
area of New York City that popularized the mass publication of music
Tin Pan Alley
corrupt event in which oil-rich government lands in Wyoming were leased for personal bribes in Harding’s administration
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
popular Harlem Renaissance poet and writer that drew on his experience growing up as an African-American child in Missouri
Langston Hughes
The method Henry Ford use to make the car more efficient
Assembly Line
The person who invented the sea plane
Glenn Curtiss
pseudo-science that justified marriage and sterilization laws to remove “unwanted” genes
Eugenics
cultural explosion of African-American literacy, art, and music
Harlem Renaissance
president that advocated for a “return to normalcy” of laissez faire capitalism following World War I
Warren Harding
act of buying stocks on potential value, not actual value
Speculation
Two Italian immigrants who were executed by the United States government.
Sacco and Vanzetti
applied natural selection to society, causing many to believe in race superiority
Social Darwinism
Clarence Darrow defended a Tennessee science teacher for illegally teaching evolution; William Jennings Bryan argued for the prosecution
Scopes Monkey Trial
president that symbolized old-fashioned values and pro-business policies
Calvin Coolidge
Famous American writer who was part of the "Lost Generation" wrote works such as "The Great Gatsby"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A series of roundups by the Department of Justice to deport immigrants that were suspected communists
Palmer Raids