Tradition vs. Modernity
Anti-Immigration & The Red Scare
Race and Civil Unrest
The Great Depression & New Deal
World War II
100

Name the amendment that banned alcohol in the United States

What is the18th Amendment?

100

What was the fear of communism infiltrating the U.S. during the 1920s called?

What is the Red Scare?

100

What was the movement of African Americans from the South to northern and midwestern cities called?

What is the Great Migration?

100

What event triggered the Great Depression in 1929?

What is the stock market crash?

100

What event led to U.S. involvement in World War II?

What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?

200

What trial symbolized the debate over science and religion in the 1920s?

What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?

200

Which ideology was feared to be spreading in the United States during the 1920s?

What is communism? 

200

What event involved racial violence in Chicago and other cities in 1919?

What is the Red Summer?

200

Name one major cause of the Great Depression besides the stock market crash

Overproduction, overspending, banks failed, buying on margin

200

What strategy did the U.S. use to defeat Japan in the Pacific?

What is island hopping?

300

Which 1920s innovation greatly increased leisure time and entertainment? 

What is the radio?

300

Name the legislation that restricted immigration from southern and eastern Europe? 

What is the Immigration Act of 1924?

300

Which massacre destroyed a thriving Black community in Oklahoma in 1921?

What is the Tulsa Massacre?

300

What was Franklin D. Roosevelt's series of programs to combat the Depression called?

What is the New Deal?

300

Name the order that led to Japanese American internment during WWII?

What is Executive Order 9066?

400

What is the name for women who broke tradition in the 1920's?

What is the flapper?

400

What was the name of the raids targeting suspected radicals and immgrants?

What is the Palmer Raids?

400

Name the cultural movement celebrating African American art and literature in the 1920s

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

400

What problem of the Great Depression was addressed by both the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?

What is unemployment?

400

What two cities were targeted with atomic bombs?

What are Hiroshima & Nagasaki?

500

What was the cultural conflict between rural and urban values in the 1920s known as?

What is tradition vs. modernity? 

500

What case involved two italian immigrants controversially convicted of murder? 

Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?

500

Who was the influential leader of the NAACP during this era?

Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?

500

What was the informal name of FDR's radio addresses?

What is Fireside chats?

500

What is the name for the posters used during WWII to encourage support for the war and increased production? 

What is propaganda?