Resurgent Racism and Nativism
This white supremacist group resurged in the 1920s, promoting “100% Americanism.”
The nickname for young, liberated women who defied Victorian norms.
Flappers
This African-American neighborhood became the center of Black art and culture.
Harlem
This famous 1925 trial debated the teaching of evolution in schools.
This amendment banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
18th Amendment
The 1924 immigration law that restricted immigration based on national origin quotas
The Johnson-Reed Act
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
19th Amendment
This literary and artistic explosion celebrated African-American identity.
This radio evangelist became famous for her charismatic sermons.
Aimee Semple McPherson
This term referred to illegal bars serving alcohol during Prohibition.
Speakeasies
These Supreme Court cases denied citizenship to Japanese and Indian immigrants (two).
Ozawa v. U.S.
U.S. v. Thind
“Welfare capitalism” and new home appliances helped shift women’s roles primarily to this sphere.
Domestic Sphere
This poet’s “The Weary Blues” captured the rhythms of jazz and Black pride.
Langston Hughes
This Austrian psychologist’s theories about the unconscious influenced 1920s America.
Sigmund Freud
The illegal smuggling of alcohol made fortunes for these criminals.
Bootleggers
This pseudoscience claimed to improve humanity through selective breeding.
Eugenics
This writer and critic of traditional gender roles was part of the “Lost Generation.”
Dorothy Parker
These expatriate writers, including Hemingway and Fitzgerald, were known as this group.
Lost Generation
These two wealthy teens committed a murder influenced by Nietzschean ideas of superiority.
Leopold and Loeb
This gangster became infamous for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
Al Capone
This ideology combined racism with fears of foreign radicals and led to quotas.
Pseudoscientific Racism
The changing role of women was reflected in this 1920s cultural movement celebrating female independence.
New Woman Movement
This Jamaican-born activist founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Marcus Garvey
This trial symbolized the national divide between science and religion.
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
The Prohibition era demonstrated that government could not easily legislate this.
Morality