The Roaring Economy
This new form of transformation, along with radios and refrigerators, became widely available in the 1920s.
What is the automobile?
Americans feared this political ideology during the First Red Scare.
What is communism?
Over one million African Americans moved from the rural South to Northern cities in this event.
What is the Great Migration?
This amendment started Prohibition in 1920.
What is the 18th Amendment?
These two Italian immigrants were convicted of murder during a nativist panic.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
Henry Ford's factories boosted productivity by using this system.
What is the assembly line?
These government raids targeted suspected radicals and arrested many without evidence.
What were the Palmer Raids?
This New York neighborhood was the center of a popular Renaissance.
What is Harlem?
These illegal bars operated during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
The belief that they were convicted due to this—rather than strong evidence—made the case controversial.
What is nativism / anti-immigrant prejudice?
Goods became cheaper and more widely available due to this economic method.
What is mass production?
This 1917 revolution helped spark fear of communism in the U.S.
What is the Russian/Bolshevik Revolution?
This style of music became the cultural heartbeat of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is jazz?
This Chicago gangster became famous during Prohibition.
Who is Al Capone?
This term describes gangs demanding payments from businesses in exchange for ______________
What is protection?
This 1929 event marked the end of the stock market boom.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This ship deported hundreds of suspected radicals during the Red Scare.
What is the “Soviet Ark” (USS Buford)?
This white supremacist group re-emerged in the 1920s and targeted minorities.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This 1929 event ruined Capone’s public image and intensified gang rivalries.
What is the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre?
This gangster, leader of the North Side Gang, feuded with Al Capone.
Who is Bugs Moran?
Buying stocks with the hope of quick profits, often very risky, is called this.
What is speculation?
Civil liberties were violated as people were arrested without ______________
What is due process?
This violent riot in Illinois in 1919 symbolized racial tensions during the Red Summer.
What is the Chicago Race Riot?
Capone was eventually arrested and imprisoned for this crime.
What is tax evasion?
This figure helped create the “Five Families” system in New York organized crime.
Who is Lucky Luciano?