1920s quiz

Nativism

a political and social belief that favors people who were born in a country over immigrants who move there

Immigration Emergency Quota Act of 192

was a U.S. federal law passed on May 19, 1921, that set the first numerical limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the United States

KKK in the twenties

experienced a massive second rise in the 1920s, growing into a powerful national organization with millions of members

Red Scare

a period of extreme public fear and panic over the supposed threat of communism or socialism in the United States, particularly following World War I, leading to government repression and social tension.

Palmer Raids

a series of violent government raids in 1919 and 1920 where U.S. federal agents arrested thousands of suspected radicals, communists, and anarchists

Sacco & Vanzetti

was a famous 1921 trial in Massachusetts where two Italian immigrant anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were convicted of a payroll robbery and double murder

Tulsa Race Massacre

was a deadly attack by a white mob on the prosperous Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, lasting from May 31 to June 1, 1921

Scottsboro Boys

nine African American teenagers falsely accused of graping two white women on a freight train in Alabama in 1931

NAACP

(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Created to end racial discrimination, secure equal rights, and abolish segregation in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation

Scopes Monkey Tria

1925 legal case where high school teacher John T. Scopes was convicted for teaching human evolution in violation of Tennessee's Butler Act

Evolution (Butler Act)

The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law that made it illegal for public school teachers to deny the biblical story of divine creation or teach that humans evolved from lower animals

Fundamentalism

a conservative religious or ideological movement defined by a strict, literal interpretation of sacred texts and a rejection of modern, secular, or liberal changes

Prohibition

Prohibition was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States that lasted from 1920 to 1933

Speakeasies

 an illicit, hidden bar that sold alcoholic drinks during the prohibition era in the United States

Calvin Coolidge

He was known for his quiet demeanure, restored post scandal, was president during the booming economy

• Governed as a small-government conservative who focused on lowering taxes, reducing national debt, and cutting government spending.

• Presided over much of the economic prosperity of the Roaring Twenties.

Warren G Harding

 Known for his teapot dome scandal, he was very corrupt

Herbert Hoover

was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933, whose presidency was defined by the onset of the Great Depression

Teapot Dome Scandal

was a major U.S. political corruption event in the early 1920s involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves to private companies

Harlem Renaissance

a major explosion of African American art, music, and writing that took place in New York City from about 1918 to the mid-1930s