The Scopes Trial
This Tennessee law prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools in 1925.
What is the Butler Act?
This constitutional amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This hairstyle, cut short, became the "badge of flapperhood" in the 1920s.
What is bobbed hair (or a bob)?
This 1920s music genre, originating in African American communities, was seen as threatening traditional values.
What is jazz?
This Chicago mob boss became "Public Enemy #1" during Prohibition for his control of illegal alcohol.
Who is Al Capone?
This act gave the federal government the power to enforce Prohibition after the 18th Amendment was ratified.
What is the Volstead Act?
This British naturalist wrote "The Origin of Species" in 1859, developing the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
These illegal, hidden drinking establishments became popular during Prohibition and often featured jazz music.
What are speakeasies?
She was a nurse who led the birth control movement in America and founded Planned Parenthood.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
These Americans believed the Bible was the literal word of God and that evolution contradicted the absolute truth.
Who are fundamentalists?
This school teacher volunteered to be prosecuted for teaching evolution to bring attention to the Butler Act.
Who is John Scopes?
These individuals illegally produced or smuggled alcohol for profit during Prohibition.
Who are bootleggers?
This famous defense attorney represented John Scopes and questioned William Jennings Bryan on the witness stand.
Who is Clarence Darrow?
This women's organization was the largest temperance group pushing for prohibition in America.
What is the WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union)?
These laws made it illegal to distribute information about birth control through the mail as "obscene" material.
What are the Comstock Acts (or Comstock Laws)?
This fear of communists and socialists after World War I led to the Palmer Raids and loss of civil liberties.
What is the Red Scare?
This attorney general launched raids that detained thousands of people for holding radical beliefs during the Red Scare.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
This controversial movement promoted selective breeding to "improve" the human race and had ties to Margaret Sanger.
What is the eugenics movement?
This organization got involved with the Scopes Trial to defend free speech and academic freedom.
What is the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)?
This event saw Al Capone's gang murder seven members of a rival gang on February 14th, 1929.
What is the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
This proposed constitutional amendment would have made women equal to men under the law, but it divided feminist groups in the 1920s.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
This 1924 law severely limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe and nearly prohibited all Asian immigration.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This rival mob boss led the North Side Gang that competed with Al Capone; his men were killed in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Who is George "Bugs" Moran?
This constitutional amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933, ending the "Noble Experiment."
What is the 21st Amendment?
Although Scopes was found guilty, this prominent fundamentalist leader's testimony was seen as discrediting the fundamentalist position to much of the country.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Al Capone was finally convicted and imprisoned for this crime, not murder or bootlegging.
What is tax evasion?
This ideal of womanhood from the 1900s-1910s, characterized by long dresses and elaborate hairstyles, preceded the flapper.
What is the Gibson Girl?
The 1920s version of this organization expanded its hatred beyond African Americans to include Jews, Catholics, immigrants, and "wets."
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This Italian mob boss mentored Al Capone and brought him to Chicago before retiring after being shot.
Who is Johnny Torrio?
This organization, founded by Margaret Sanger, is the largest international organization devoted to family planning.
What is Planned Parenthood?