Noble Figures
This U.S president proposed the Fourteen Points and advocated for the League of Nations after World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This was the year that the Treaty of Versailles was signed, officially ending World War I.
What is 1919?
What is the 19th Admendment?
This cultural movement, centered in New York, celebrated Black art, music, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This radical fear led to mass arrests of suspected communists and paranoia surrounding communities
What is the Red Scare?
This president's administrations was rocked after the infamous Teapot Dome Scandal
Who is Warren G. Harding?
This event in 1919 saw widespread racial violence in many U.S cities, including Chicago and Washington D.C.
What is the Red Summer?
This term is used to describe young, independent women during the jazz-age of the Roaring 20s
What are Flappers?
This mass relocation of African Americans from the South to northern cities began during World War I.
What is the Great Migration?
This financial plan aimed to help Germany pay its war reparations and stabilize the economy after the war.
What is the Dawes Plan?
Born in Jamaica, this leader founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and pushed the idea of "Africa for the Africans."
Who is Marcus Gavey?
What is 1920?
This activist led the fight for birth control and founded, what is now, Planned Parenthood.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
This Arkansas massacre in 1919 saw white mobs kill hundreds of African Americans for organizing for labor rights.
What is the Elaine Massacre
This scandal involved government officials leasing oil reserves in exchange for bribes.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This Republican senator from Massachusetts opposed Wilson's League of Nations, citing Article X as a threat to U.S. sovereignty.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
This 1919 event saw a police strike that led to riots and the rise of Calvin Coolidge's influence
What is the Boston Police Strike?
This social reformer led the National Women's Party, whose protest style was based off of British "suffragettes".
Who is Alice Paul?
This African-American band introduced jazz to Europe
Who is the 369th Infantry Band OR Who is the Harlem Hellfighters?
Popularized by Warren G. Harding, this phrase was used to describe America's desire to withdraw from foreign entanglements after WWI
What is a "return to normalcy"?
This attorney general led the infamous "Palmer Raids" during the Red Scare.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
This influenza pandemic of 19-18-1919 killed around 700,000 Americans
What is the Spanish Flu Pandemic?
This earlier amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
What is the 18th Amendment?
This writer coined the phrase "Red Summer" to describe the racial violence of 1919
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
This case established the "clear and present danger" test to limit free speech during wartime.
What is Schenck v. United States?