People
These Italian immigrant were tried and convicted of a double murder while fleeing to Mexico in 1917 to avoid the draft.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
When the government leased oil reserves in Elk Hills, California for $360,000 in bribes.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
These were conducted without warrants on homes and offices of those suspected of being radicals and subversives.
What are the Palmer Raids?
The fear that communists would infiltrate and take over the United States.
What is the Red Scare?
This law limited the number of immigrants to 3% of a country's population.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
Leader of the Back to Africa Movement that brought 2 million followers to emigrate to Africa.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Location of an explosion of African American culture during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Where representatives from Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan met to discuss naval disarmament in 1921.
What is the Washington Naval Conference?
A return to life as it had been in prewar America.
What is normalcy?
This organization specialized in the defense of unpopular individuals and groups, using lawyers to fight for the rights of immigrants and those opposed to the government?
What is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?
American writers who developed themes and writing styles that focused on experiences during World War I and its aftermath.
What is the Lost Generation?
A place where illegal alcohol was sold and consumed.
What is a speakeasy?
Conflict in Tennessee over the teaching of Evolution in public education.
What is the Scopes Trial?
American banks loaned money to Germany to pay war reparations to France and Britain, who would then pay back war loans to the United States.
What is the Dawes Plan?
Organized to stop the false accusations against Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens.
What is the Anti-Defamation League?
People who had deep respect for long-held cultural and religious values.
Who are traditionalists?
Shady real estate developers sold lots along this state's coast to speculators who lost everything following a hurricane.
What is the Florida Land Boom?
An agreement among the United States, France, and 62 other signatories to outlaw war between their countries.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Daring young women who broke with tradition by coloring their hair, cutting it short, and short dresses that exposed their knees.
What are flappers?
Used to measure stock prices, this index's value doubled between 1928 and 1929.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
People who embraced new ideas, styles, and social trends.
Who are modernists?
This new American form of music has roots in Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans.
What is Jazz?
The League of Women Voters worked to educate the public on key social and political issues, such as a law to guarantee equal rights for all Americans regardless of gender.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
An economic system characterized by private ownership of property.
What is a free enterprise system?
This dance originated as an African American folk music accompaniment in the South.
What is the Charleston?