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The promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. It occurred immediately after World War I.

A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs

Movement to make alcohol illegal

The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

Harlem Renaissance

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Great Migration

The movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.

Langston Hughes

Poet, playwright, and novelist, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance

Fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

Two Italian men accused of murder, but were convicted because they were anarchist and Italian.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist whose works reflect climate of the "roaring twenties", wrote The Great Gatsby

Great Stock Market Crash

Disastrous fall in the stock prices in 1929 that signaled the end of the prosperity in the 1920s

Speculation (stocks)

Practice of buying stocks which are priced higher then their worth.