NATIVISM
This is a movement that favors native-born Americans over immigrants.
What is nativism?
This was marked by a widespread fear of so-called far-left movements including communism, socialism and anarchism.
What was the Red Scare?
This gave women the right to vote for the first time in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
This new popular style of music first emerged during the 1920s and was said to be uniquely African-American.
What is jazz music?
During the 1920s, these two opposing groups emerged and began a debate over socially acceptable values and beliefs.
Who were modernists and fundamentalists?
These were earlier immigrants to United States who came primarily from Northern and Western Europe.
Who were the "Old Immigrants"?
This group were often referred to as “Reds” for their so-called allegiance to communism and the flag of the Soviet Union.
Who were communists?
This nickname was given to young women in the 1920s known for wearing make-up, short dresses and bobbed hair.
Who were the Flappers?
This popular movement of the 1920s sought to elevate African-American art forms like music, art and literature.
What was the Harlem Renaisance?
During the 1920s, this group believed in a strict, literal interpretation of the Bible with a strong emphasis on traditional values.
Who were the Fundamentalists?
These were more recent immigrants who came primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe as well as parts of Asia.
Who were the "New Immigrants"?
In spite of a lack of evidence, these two recent immigrants were convicted of murder and robbery, sentenced to death and executed in 1921.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
Despite a time of great change, most 1920s women expected to continue to spend their lives as these. (two answers)
What are homemakers and mothers?
This two-day long deadly riot occurred in 1921 and is believed to be the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.
What was the Tulsa Massacre?
This group first emerged during the 1920s and typically rejected the past and sought new forms of expression, experimentation and innovation.
Who were the Modernists?
This law placed a limit of 3% on all immigrants per nation allowed into the United States each year.
What was the Quota Act of 1921?
These were conducted by the Department of Justice to arrest and deport suspected radicals, particularly immigrants, communists and anarchists.
What were the Palmer Raids?
During the 1920s, working women tended to earn less than men and to be limited to these four categories of jobs.
What were clerks, nurses, teachers and domestics?
During the 1921 race riots in Oklahoma, this area was targeted and virtually destroyed by white supremacist rioters.
What was "Black Wall Street"?
This was a 1925 court case in Dayton, Tennessee that challenged the teaching of evolution in public schools.
What was the Scopes ("Monkey") Trial?
This law limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States each year based on their nationality.
What was the Quota Act of 1924?
These three factors could result in arrest, jail and or deportation of both citizens and non-citizens during the early 1920s.
What are national origin, religious and/or political beliefs?
Despite greater freedom for women from traditional dating practices, this continued to be illegal during 1920s in almost every state.
What is birth control?
By the time the rioting ended in Oklahoma in 1921, this many individuals were killed while this number were reported to have been injured.
What were 300 killed?
What were thousands injured?
This was the period in the United States from 1920 to 1933 when the ______, _________, and _________ of alcohol was banned.
What was Prohibition?
What was the sale, transportation and manufacture?