IGCSE History Pearson Edexcel USA

The Roaring Twenties

A period in the 1920s marked by economic prosperity, cultural changes, and social tensions in the USA.

Consumerism

The preoccupation with and inclination toward the buying of consumer goods.

Prohibition

A nationwide ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors, established by the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919.

The New Deal

A series of programs and policies implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt aimed at economic recovery from the Great Depression.

The Wall Street Crash

The stock market crash of October 1929 that marked the beginning of the Great Depression in the USA.

Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924

Laws that limited immigration to the USA, favoring Western Europeans and restricting those from Eastern and Southern Europe.

Red Scare

A period of anti-communist hysteria in the USA during the early 1920s, leading to government crackdowns on suspected radicals.

Sacco and Vanzetti Case

A controversial trial in the 1920s in which two Italian immigrants were convicted of murder and sentenced to death, highlighting racial and political tensions.

Al Capone

A notorious gangster during Prohibition who made millions from illegal alcohol distribution in Chicago.

KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

A white supremacist organization that rose in prominence during the 1920s, advocating for racial segregation and violence against minorities.

The Palmer Raids

Government actions taken between 1919 and 1921 to arrest suspected radicals and anarchists, led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.