War broke out in Europe in 1914 when this Serbian terrorist shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
100
Silent Movies were all the rave in the 20's as city dwellers flocked to see this silent movie star perform various comedy acts on the silver screen.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
100
Henry Ford would promote that the price of this automobile was $850, enough for the working man to afford.
What is the Model T Ford
100
These women wore short skirts and hair and only showed outward signs of a new age of women
What is the flapper(s)
100
This "Grand Old" white supremacist group would gain popularity after the release of Birth of a Nation. Their anti-immigration stance was shared by many Americans in the 20's
What is the Ku Klux Clan
200
Economic investment was only one reason for the U.S. would get involved with the Allies. This type of war launched by the Germans would target merchant vessels in the Atlantic.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare
200
This poet highlighted the struggle for African American social and political rights during the first half the 20th century. His "Weary Blues" and "Dream Deferred" defined jazz poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes
200
Radios, toasters, and vacuums were widely produced in the United States for consumers who didn't have the money to buy those items. Americans were able to get these items because of what innovation?
What is easy consumer credit
200
Farmers had a tough time after the Great War, especially those African Americans that took part in this movement from the South to the North that would last well into the Great Depression.
What is the Great Migration
200
This event was part of the Red Scare. Led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, he used the Espionage and Immigration acts of the day to deport suspected anarchists and communists
What is the Palmer Raids
300
Wilson's Fourteen Points tried to bring peace to Europe by redrawing national boundaries, refusing to place blame on any one country, and creating this organization to oversee international affairs.
What is The League of Nations
300
Take the A' Train to the Cotton Club to catch this famous jazz musician lead his orchestra during the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Duke Ellington
300
Supply-side economics was touted by this Secretary of the Treasury to boost investment and economic growth.
Who is Andrew Mellon
300
Higher yields of crops meant low returns for the nation's farmers as post-war demand dried up. Why did high amounts of crops mean low returns?
What is low prices
300
These two Italian Immigrants were sentenced to death on poor evidence and unreliable testimony.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti
400
The Treaty of Versailles would sow the seeds of World War II by doing these two actions.
1.What is redrawing national boundaries in Europe & the Middle East
2. Imposing stiff reparations on Germany
400
This star of The Emperor Jones and Showboat was one of the first well respected African American actors.
Who is Paul Robeson
400
Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic and help invigorate congress to pass these two acts that developed one of the first commercial airline industries in the world.
What is the Kelly Act & Air Commerce Act
400
The mass production of the automobile led to the growth of what type of "zone" that would grow between the urban and rural areas of the country?
What is the suburb
400
Laws in the state of Tennessee prohibited this science teacher from teaching evolution in his High School science class. He would be defended by Clarence Darrow and sentenced as guilty
Who is John Scopes
500
Charles Evans Hughes would lead this group to enacting the 4, 5, and 9 Point treaties to reduce the number of battleships and impose freer trade in China.
What is the Washington Conference
500
Marcus Garvey would promote this campaign for Blacks to leave the United States in favor of their heretical home to form a single state.
What is the "Back to Africa" Movement
500
This version of America's favored economic system was supported by Henry Ford and other industrialists. It advocated for health care, pensions, and higher wages for everyday workers.
What is Welfare Capitalism
500
"Silent" Cal Coolidge was not known to say much, but this quote sums up his idea of what business both Rural and City folk were in
What is "The Chief business of the American People is business."
500
This "Sultan of Swat" embodied the game of baseball with his 60 home run record. After a short stint in Boston, he would become a dedicated Yankee.