World War I
The assassination of this man triggered World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This law enforced Prohibition in the United States.
What is the Volstead Act?
October 29, 1929 is better known by this name.
What is Black Tuesday?
This agency insured bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?
Organized crime expanded rapidly because of this constitutional amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment?
America’s official policy when war broke out in 1914.
What was neutrality?
This trial symbolized the conflict between religion and modern science.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This risky investing practice required only 10% down payment on stocks.
What is buying on margin?
This agency provided retirement pensions.
What is the SSA (Social Security Administration)?
This law made criticizing the war illegal during WWI.
What is the Sedition Act?
Germany’s policy of sinking ships without warning.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This racial tragedy destroyed the Greenwood district of Tulsa.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
These shanty towns were named after President Hoover.
What are Hoovervilles?
This New Deal program employed young men in conservation projects.
What is the CCC?
Fear of communism after WWI became known as this.
What is the Red Scare?
This migration moved African Americans north for factory jobs during WWI.
What is the Great Migration?
The KKK in the 1920s targeted these groups in addition to African Americans.
Who were Catholics, Jews, and Communists?
This environmental disaster devastated farmers during the Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
FDR’s failed plan to add more Supreme Court justices became known as this.
What is court packing?
This socialist leader was imprisoned for opposing WWI.
Who was Eugene V. Debs?
This treaty created the League of Nations, though the U.S. never joined.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A culture focused on buying discretionary goods and advertising.
What is mass consumer culture?
About this percentage of Americans were unemployed during the Depression’s peak.
What is 25%?
This event finally ended the Great Depression through wartime employment.
What is World War II?
The Supreme Court ruled Schenck’s speech was not protected because it posed this.
What is a “clear and present danger”?