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New constitutional provision, popular in the Midwest and South, that encouraged lawbreaking and gangsterism in big cities of the East and North.
What is prohibition?
100
Hooded defenders of Anglo-Saxon and "Protestant" values against immigrants, Catholics, and Jews.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
The movement of 1919-1920, spawned by fear of Bolshevik revolution, that resulted in the arrest and deportation of many political radicals.
What is the Red Scare?
100
The proposed international body that, to Wilson, constituted the key provision of the Versailles treaty.
What is the League of Nations?
100
The nations that dominated the Paris Peace Conference -- Britain, France, Italy, and the U.S.
What are the Big Four?
200
Wilson's idealistic statement of American war aims in January 1918 that inspired the Allies and demoralized their enemies.
What are the 14 points?
200
Message that contained a German proposal to Mexico for an anti-American alliance.
What is the Zimmerman note?
200
A hard core of isolationist senators who bitterly opposed any sort of league of nations.
Who are the irreconcilables?
200
New industry spawned by the mass-consumption economy that encouraged still more consumption.
What is advertising?
200
Henry Ford's cheap, mass-produced automobile.
What is the Model T?
300
Term for area of the South where traditional evangelical and Fundamentalist religion remained strong.
What is the Bible Belt?
300
Legal battle over teaching evolution that pitted modern science against Fundamentalist Religion.
What is the Scopes Trial?
300
Two ideals that Wilson espoused (separate from the 14 points) that helped convince Americans that entering WWI was good and necessary.
What are "a war to end all wars" and "making the world safe for democracy?"
300
Constitutional provision endorsed by Wilson as a war measure whose ratification achieved a long-sought goal for American women.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
The biggest cause for the U.S. entering WWI.
What is Germany's unrestricted U-boat warfare?
400
The flowering of black culture and pride centered in a particular place in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
Restrictive legislation of 1924 that reduced the number (set a quota) of newcomers to the United States and discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
400
American government propaganda agency that aroused zeal for Wilson's ideals and whipped up hatred for the kaiser.
What is the Committee on Information?
400
Wilson's belief as to what the presidential election of 1920 would be, if it were presented as a direct popular vote on the League.
What is the solemn referendum?
400
Treasury Department bond-selling drives that raised about $21 billion to finance the American war effort.
What are Liberty Loan Drives?
500
Government measures that were introduced to stop the spread of communism and target those who disagreed with "traditional" American values.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
500
The New York institution in which continuously rising prices and profits were fueled by speculation in the 1920s.
What is the New York Stock Exchange?
500
Amendments to the proposed Treaty of Versailles, sponsored by Wilson's hated senatorial opponent, that attempted to guarantee America's sovereign rights in relation to the League of Nations.
What are the Lodge Reservations or Lodge's 14 Reservations?
500
Marcus Garvey's self-help organization that proposed leading blacks to Africa that ultimately helped promote black cultural pride.
What is the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)?
500
Two immigrants who became symbols of persecution against those who were different in the 1920s after being tried, found guilty, and executed for murder.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?