Unit 5- The Roaring 20s

Fear of communism, anarchists, and immigrants after WWI that led to mass arrests and deportations:

• Harlem Renaissance

• Red Scare

• Nativism

• Prohibition

Amendment that began Prohibition, banning alcohol in the US:

• 15th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

Trial of a Tennessee teacher for teaching evolution, highlighting conflict between modern science and traditional values:

• Scopes Trial

• Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

• Palmer Raids

• Red Scare

Writers, artists, and musicians in New York who celebrated African American culture:

• Jazz Age

• Harlem Renaissance

• Jazz Age

• Great Migration

Female political reformers of the 1920s who pushed for voting rights and greater equality:

• Flappers

• Settlement House Leaders

• Muckrakers

• Hippies

Immigration law that placed strict quotas on immigrants, especially from Southern and Eastern Europe:

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Gentlemen's Agreement

• Quota Act of 1917

• Immigration Act of 1924

Corruption scandal during Harding's presidency involving illegal oil leases:

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Credit Scandal

• Wall Street Crash

• Bonus Army Incident

Illegal production and distribution of alcohol during Prohibition:

• Suffrage

• Bootlegging

• Temperance

• Nativism

Authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway who criticized materialism:

• Harlem Renaissance

• Lost Generation

• Progressive Era Writers

• Muckrakers

Female political reformers of the 1920s who pushed for women's rights and equality were known as:

• Settlement House Leaders

• Muckrakers

• Flappers

• Suffragists