Vocabulary
The promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state. The name refers to the red flags that the communists used. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States which are referred to by this name
What is the Red Scare?
“After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.”
What is the 18th Amendment?
This southern terrorist organization composed of men who tortured and murdered people under cover of darkness in an effort to undermine the political and economic freedoms accorded to formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933
What is Prohibition?
Prohibition contribute to the spread of organized crime in America by creating an enormous public demand for this
What is Illegal Alcohol?
On March 22, 1933, this U.S. president signed into law the Cullen–Harrison Act, legalizing beer with an alcohol content of 3.2% (by weight) and wine of a similarly low alcohol content, which led to the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
Who is President Franklin Roosevelt?
Illegal traffic in liquor in violation of legislative restrictions on its manufacture, sale, or transportation
What is Bootleggers?
One of the largest and most influential women’s groups of the 19th century, most well known for campaigning for prohibition in the 1920’s
What is the Women’s Christian Temperance Union?
Adelard Cunin, better known as this nickname, was a Chicago Prohibition-era gangster. He was incarcerated three times before his 21st birthday. Seven members of his gang were gunned down in a warehouse in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of February 14, 1929, supposedly on the orders of his rival Al Capone.
Who is Bugs Moran?
A religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs
What is Fundamentalism?
Gang leaders such as Al Capone and Bugs Moran battled for control of Chicago's illegal drinking dens known as these
What is Speakeasies?
This trial was a nationally-famous Tennessee court case that upheld a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools in that state in 1925. ... In 1925, John Scopes, a biology teacher in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, disobeyed the law. (SHOWN IN VIDEO CLIP)
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
A philosophical movement and an art movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society
What is Modernism?
This U.S. law enacted in 1919 (and taking effect in 1920) to provide enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
What is the Volstead Act?
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants and anarchists, were executed for murder by the state of Massachusetts in 1927 on the basis of doubtful ballistics evidence . For countless observers throughout the world, Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted because of their political beliefs and ethnic background. (SHOW IN VIDEO CLIP)
What is the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?