Social Tensions
This 1925 trial highlighted the clash between religious fundamentalism and modern science.
What is the Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
This amendment initiated Prohibition in 1920.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This group resurged in the 1920s, targeting African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This attack on December 7, 1941, led to the U.S. entering WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This office, created in 1941, managed inflation and civilian supply.
What is the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply?
This ideology, rooted in Protestant values and anti-modernism, gained traction in the 1920s.
What is religious fundamentalism?
This infamous gangster led the Chicago Outfit during Prohibition.
Who is Al Capone?
This trial of two Italian anarchists symbolized anti-immigrant and anti-radical sentiment.
What is the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?
This cultural icon symbolized women entering the workforce during WWII.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This 1936 commission aimed to revitalize U.S. shipbuilding.
What is the United States Maritime Commission?
The fear of communism and anarchism after WWI led to this period of mass arrests and deportations.
What is the First Red Scare?
This massacre in 1929 symbolized the violent gang wars of the era.
What is the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre?
This 1919 event saw race riots erupt across U.S. cities, including Chicago and Washington D.C.
What is the Red Summer?
This 1941 act allowed the U.S. to supply military aid to Allied nations.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This 1941 order prioritized aluminum for defense over civilian use.
What is Order M-1?
This 1935 act guaranteed workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively.
What is the Wagner Act?
This commission was established by Hoover to evaluate Prohibition’s effectiveness.
What is the Wickersham Commission?
This 1924 act severely restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and banned Asian immigration.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act)?
This 1940 act marked the first peacetime conscription in U.S. history.
What is the Selective Training and Service Act?
This office, created in 1941, coordinated propaganda and later split into the OSS and OWI.
What is the Office of the Coordinator of Information?
This labor leader broke from the AFL to form the CIO, advocating for industrial unionism.
Who is John L. Lewis?
This act defined “intoxicating liquors” and enforced the 18th Amendment.
What is the Volstead Act?
This 1913 California law barred Japanese immigrants from owning land.
What is the California Alien Land Law (Webb-Haney Act)?
This plant, built by Ford, produced B-24 bombers at a rate of one per hour.
What is the Willow Run plant?
This board was created to mediate labor disputes during the defense buildup.
What is the National Defence Mediation Board?