The Jazz Age & Harlem Renaissance
This trumpet player, known for his scat singing and improvisation, moved from New Orleans to Chicago in 1922 and became a global symbol of jazz
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Ratified in 1920, this amendment officially gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This affable Ohioan won a historic landslide in 1920 with a campaign slogan promising a "Return to Normalcy"
Who is Warren G. Harding?
Nicknamed the "Tin Lizzie," this sturdy, no-frills vehicle was the first automobile accessible to the American middle class
What is the Model T?
This Attorney General led the federal crackdown on suspected radicals and subversives between 1919 and 1920
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
This term describes the movement of over one million African Americans from the rural South to northern cities between 1915 and 1920
What is the Great Migration?
Enforced by the Volstead Act, this amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
This 1920s scandal, involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves, became synonymous with government corruption
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing by introducing this system, which reduced the time to build a car from 12 hours to 93 minutes
What is the assembly line?
This 24-year-old law graduate was tapped to lead the new anti-radical division that later became the FBI
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
This New York City neighborhood became the "Black Mecca," fostering an explosion of African-American art, literature, and music
What is Harlem?
This militant suffragette led the National Women’s Party and used hunger strikes to pressure the Wilson administration.
Who is Alice Paul?
This "Silent" New Englander took the oath of office by kerosene lamp after the sudden death of his predecessor in 1923
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
In 1914, Ford doubled the standard pay for workers by offering this famous daily minimum wage
What is the Five-Dollar Day?
In this landmark 1919 case, the Supreme Court ruled that speech could be suppressed if it posed a "clear and present danger" to the nation
What is Schenck v. United States?
This charismatic founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) promoted a philosophy of "Africa for the Africans"
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This state was the first to grant women's suffrage in 1869, long before the national amendment was passed
What is Wyoming?
This Secretary of the Interior holds the ignominious distinction of being the first Cabinet official convicted of a felony
Who is Albert Fall?
This strategy involves a corporation seeking total control over every resource—from mines to railroads—needed for their final product
What is vertical integration?
These two Italian-born anarchists were executed in 1927 following a trial that many saw as a miscarriage of justice fueled by nativism
Who are Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?
This "Harlem Hellfighter" led the 369th Infantry Band and is credited with introducing jazz to European audiences during World War I
Who is James Reese Europe?
This 1921 act was a crowning achievement for women progressives, providing federal funding for maternal and child healthcare
What is the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act?
This group of Harding's political cronies was known for influence-peddling and gathering for drinks at a house on H-Street
Who is the Ohio Gang?
Large corporations used this "paternalistic" approach, offering benefits like insurance and bowling leagues to build worker loyalty and discourage unions
What is welfare capitalism?
This term was coined by James Weldon Johnson to describe the bloody surge in racial violence across the U.S. during 1919
What is the Red Summer?