Politics & Presidents
This amendment, ratified in 1920, guaranteed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This economic philosophy argued that the government should interfere as little as possible in business.
What is laissez-faire economics?
This migration saw African Americans move from the rural South to Northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
This belief claimed that native-born Americans were superior to immigrants.
What is nativism?
This new technology broadcast the first election results nationwide in 1920.
What is radio?
This president campaigned on a promise of a “Return to Normalcy” after World War I.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
Henry Ford revolutionized industry using this production method.
What is the assembly line?
This 1919 period of racial violence included riots in more than 26 cities.
What is the Red Summer?
This 1921 law set the first limits on immigration by nationality.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
These illegal bars operated secretly during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
Nicknamed “Silent Cal,” this president believed “the business of America is business.”
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This practice allowed consumers to “buy now and pay later,” increasing debt in the 1920s.
What is installment buying?
This trial symbolized the clash between religious tradition and modern science.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This 1924 law favored immigrants from Northern Europe and nearly banned Asian immigration.
What is the National Origins Act?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This group of Harding’s friends was involved in corruption scandals during his presidency.
Who were the Ohio Gang?
This 1922 tariff raised import taxes to protect American businesses but hurt foreign economies.
What is the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?
This anti-communist movement led to raids, arrests, and deportations of suspected radicals.
What is the Red Scare?
These two immigrants were executed despite questionable evidence, fueling anti-immigrant fear.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
This 1927 film was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue.
What is The Jazz Singer?
This scandal involved the illegal leasing of federal oil reserves and led to the first cabinet member going to prison.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This risky stock practice involved buying shares with borrowed money and helped hide economic weakness.
What is buying on margin?
This extremist organization revived in the 1920s and promoted “100% Americanism.”
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Fear of immigrants during the 1920s was driven by concerns that they would take jobs, lower wages, and threaten American culture.
What are economic and cultural fears?
This musician revolutionized jazz through improvisation and scat singing.
Who is Louis Armstrong?