Controversies
The court case that deals with creationism vs. evolution in schools
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
White supremacist group that wanted to limit immigration
What is the KKK?
The name for secret bars during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
The process that made mass production possible.
What is the assembly line?
The movement of African-Americans from South to North in search of better jobs
What is the Great Migration?
A young, dramatic woman of the Twenties who often drank and smoked in speakeasies.
What is a flapper?
The nickname or slang term for a communist
What are reds?
The amendment that bans the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
This makes it possible to buy all the new products of the 1920s because you pay later.
What is the credit system?
The “hands off” economic policy of government in the 1920s.
What is laissez-faire?
What is the worst effect of the 18th amendment?
What is the rise of organized crime?
Immigrants from these regions of Europe were considered “undesirable”
Amendment that repeals Prohibition.
What is the 21st amendment?
Entrepreneur who revolutionizes the car industry
Who is Henry Ford?
Another nickname for the Roaring Twenties.
What is the Jazz Age?
Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death for suspected murder. What is the term used to describe anti-immigrant feelings?
What is nativism?
The scientific study of improving society by controlling the breeding of negative traits.
Three illegal jobs that were created by Prohibition.
What is
1. bathtub gin (or moonshine)
2. bootlegging
3. speakeasies
The scandal where one of President Harding’s cabinet members was selling U.S. land for his profit.
People start to lose faith in gov.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
The growth of African-American culture and arts during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
EITHER of the two lawyers from the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Who are Clarence Darrow OR William Jennings Bryan?
A nationwide panic over fear of a communist revolution
What is the Red Scare?
The law (act) that gives the federal government the power to enforce Prohibition.
Hint: not 18th amendment.
What is the Volstead Act?
This is a “culture” where people spend lots of money on material goods.
What is consumer culture?
The name of the raids that search for suspected communists after several bombings around the U.S.
What are the Palmer Raids?