APUSH Unit 7 Study Guide

1920s

A decade characterized by prosperity, cultural change, and social conflict.

Economic Boom

Rise of consumer culture, mass production, and a booming stock market during the 1920s.

Jazz Age

Cultural era in the 1920s marked by the popularity of jazz music.

Harlem Renaissance

Cultural movement in the 1920s centered in Harlem, celebrating African American culture and arts.

Sacco and Vanzetti trial

1920s trial of two Italian anarchists accused of murder, highlighting social conflicts of the time.

Prohibition

Period when the 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol, leading to organized crime.

Scopes Trial

1925 trial debating evolution and the teaching of modernism vs. fundamentalism.

Women’s Suffrage

The movement culminating in the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

1928 agreement to outlaw war, which was largely symbolic and ineffective.

The New Deal

FDR's series of programs aimed at relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.

Lend-Lease Act

1941 act allowing U.S. to provide aid to Allies before entering WWII.

Bonus Army

Group of WWI veterans who protested for early bonuses in 1932, met with violence.

Neutrality Acts

Series of laws in the 1930s to prevent U.S. involvement in foreign wars.

Pearl Harbor

Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, leading to U.S. entry into WWII.

Manhattan Project

Top-secret U.S. project to develop the atomic bomb during WWII.

Dust Bowl

Severe drought during the Great Depression that caused massive agricultural damage.

Civil Liberties

Rights of citizens that were compromised during WWII, notably Japanese internment.

Atomic Bomb

Nuclear weapon developed during WWII, used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Social Security Act

1935 act providing financial assistance to the elderly and disabled as part of the Second New Deal.

Dawes Plan

1924 plan that provided U.S. loans to Germany to help with reparations.

Emergency Quota Act 1921

Immigration law limiting the number of immigrants allowed into the U.S. from specific countries.

National Origins Act 1924

Law that further restricted immigration based on national origins, favoring Northern Europeans.