Demobilization & Red Scare
Many returning World War I soldiers struggled to find jobs because factories were no longer producing this type of goods.
What is wartime/military goods?
This manufacturing innovation, made famous by Henry Ford, dramatically increased production speed and lowered costs.
What is the assembly line?
This Black cultural movement centered in New York celebrated art, music, poetry, and intellectual achievement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This 1920 amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 1929 invention transformed life in Florida by making the climate more livable and supporting population growth.
What is modern air conditioning?
This fear of communism, anarchism, and radicalism swept the U.S. after WWI.
What is the Red Scare
This buying method allowed consumers to purchase goods with small payments over time, contributing to rising consumer debt.
What is installment buying?
This law banned alcohol nationwide and led to speakeasies, bootlegging, and a rise in organized crime.
What is Prohibition (18th Amendment)?
This civil rights organization, revived in the early 1900s, worked through the courts to challenge racial injustice.
What is the NAACP?
This 1921 conference limited naval shipbuilding among major world powers in an effort to maintain peace.
What was the Washington Naval Conference?
These two Italian immigrants and anarchists were controversially convicted of murder during the Red Scare, becoming a symbol of nativist prejudice.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
A short economic downturn during these years in the decade helped lead to business-friendly policies that fueled recovery
What is the Depression of 1920–21?
This movement rejected modern science in favor of traditional religious beliefs, influencing the Scopes Trial.
What is Fundamentalism?
This group’s membership surged in the 1920s due to fears of immigration, urbanization, and cultural change.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This Florida town was destroyed in a racially motivated massacre in 1923
What was Rosewood?
These government raids targeted suspected radicals and immigrants during the Red Scare and were led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
What were the Palmer Raids?
The rise of consumer culture led companies to change this aspect of business, enticing customers with emotional appeals.
What is advertising or marketing?
This booming new industry transformed American culture by promoting celebrities, glamour, and escapism.
What is Hollywood/the film industry?
This civil rights leader advocated vocational training and economic self-help for African Americans.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
This Florida economic event involved rapid land speculation and ended due to hurricanes, fraud, and transportation problems.
What was the Florida Land Boom?
This future FBI director rose to national prominence during the Red Scare by organizing files on political radicals.
Who was J. Edgar Hoover?
This economic practice involved purchasing stocks with only a small down payment and borrowing the rest, contributing to both the boom of the 1920s and the later market crash.
What is buying on margin?
This Jamaican-born leader promoted Black nationalism, economic independence, and the Back-to-Africa movement.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
This leader argued for immediate civil rights and higher education for Black Americans, opposing gradualism.
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
This 1928 pact attempted to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?