POLITICAL CHANGE & SCANDAL
This amendment expanded voting rights to millions of women in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This economic idea argued that government should stay out of business.
What is laissez-faire economics?
This migration moved African Americans from the South to Northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
This new technology brought news and entertainment into American homes.
What is the radio?
This amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This Republican president promised a “Return to Normalcy” after World War I.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
Henry Ford used this system to make cars faster and cheaper.
What is the assembly line?
This 1919 event involved violent race riots in dozens of U.S. cities.
What is the Red Summer?
These illegal bars operated secretly during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
This law enforced Prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act?
This group of Harding’s friends received government jobs despite a lack of qualifications.
Who were the Ohio Gang?
This tariff raised import taxes to protect American industries in 1922.
What is the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?
This anti-communist panic followed the Russian Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
This group of young women challenged traditional behavior with new fashion and attitudes.
Who are flappers?
These criminals illegally produced and sold alcohol during Prohibition.
Who are bootleggers?
This cabinet member accepted bribes in exchange for leasing federal oil reserves.
Who is Albert Fall?
This practice let consumers buy goods by paying over time instead of upfront.
What is installment buying?
These government raids arrested thousands of suspected radicals without due process.
What are the Palmer Raids?
This 1927 movie was the first feature-length film with synchronized dialogue.
What is The Jazz Singer?
This famous gangster became a symbol of organized crime during Prohibition.
Who is Al Capone?
This scandal became the first in U.S. history to send a cabinet member to prison.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This risky stock market practice involved borrowing money to buy shares.
What is buying on margin?
This controversial case involved two Italian immigrants executed despite weak evidence.
What is the Sacco and Vanzetti case?
This musician transformed jazz through improvisation and scat singing.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933.
What is the 21st Amendment?