The 18th Amendment...

Prohibited the selling and drinking of alcohol

How did the new affordability of automobiles change life in America in the 1920s?

There were new jobs and greater mobility.

During the 1920s, why did a new automobile cost less than automobiles produced prior to WWI?

Mass-production techniques in factories

All of the following were changing developments in American communication in the 1920s except —

the building of telegraph lines

What is an assembly line?

A worker focus on one task to help make the whole.

What was important about the Prohibition era?

Alcohol was made illegal under the 18th Amendment

Why did so many travel from the South to the urban centers of the North and West?

Jobs and economic opportunities

What were bootleggers?

People who made/sold alcohol during Prohibition

What is mechanization?

The introduction of machines into the workplace.

What was the Industrial Revolution?

A time of technological advancement.

Which type of discrimination is portrayed in this painting from his Great Migration series?

African Americans experienced segregation in public facilities.

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1
What did the Wright Brothers invent?
Automobile
Light bulb
Airplane
Telephone
2
The 18th Amendment...
Legalized alcohol
Prohibited the selling and drinking of alcohol
Gave women suffrage
Gave African American males suffrage
3
Which title would best fit the concept web?
Effects of Prohibition
Solutions of Prohibition
Resolutions of Prohibition
Causes of Prohibition
4
How did the new affordability of automobiles change life in America in the 1920s?
Pollution decreased in the cities.
Many people moved to the city.
More transcontinental railroads were built.
There were new jobs and greater mobility.
5
What innovation did Henry Ford bring to automobile manufacturing?
Monopolies
AM/FM Radio
Assembly Line
Vulcanized Rubber Tires
6
Virginia is in this region
Southeast
Southwest
Northeast
Great Plains
7
During the 1920s, why did a new automobile cost less than automobiles produced prior to WWI?
Competition from low-priced imports
A minimum-wage law for industrial workers
Government price controls on automobiles
Mass-production techniques in factories
8
All of the following were changing developments in American communication in the 1920s except —
the building of telegraph lines
development of the radio
the movie industry
increased availability of telephones
9
A 'speakeasy' was an illicit liquor store or nightclub.
False
True
10
What were the illegal bars of the Prohibition era called?
Watering holes
Pubs
Saloons
Speakeasies
11
What is an assembly line?
A worker focus on one task to help make the whole.
People get in lines to sell things in a market.
A worker makes the whole product by him/herself.
It was a slow and unreliable process that was discarded.
12
What movement took place during the 1920s in which thousands of African Americans moved north to find work?
The Great Migration
The Great Depression
The Great White Fleet
The Great Gatsby
13
Cars allowed workers to leave the city and become...
Rural
Suburban
Urban
Country
14
What was important about the Prohibition era?
It was a time of peace and tranquilty
Alcohol was made illegal under the 18th Amendment
Alcohol was made free under the 18th Amendment
Crime was at an all time low in the US
15
The purpose of the labor union was to...
Fight on behalf of the owner
It was a group of people who liked hanging out
Fight on behalf of the worker
Unions served no purpose
16
Why did so many travel from the South to the urban centers of the North and West?
Jobs and economic opportunities
For the opportunity to be well travelled
Mostly for entertainment
There was a famine in the South
17
What were bootleggers?
People who made/sold alcohol during Prohibition
A special way of putting on boots
People who measured and made boots
People who bought/drunk alcohol during Prohibition
18
What is mechanization?
The building of machines as toys.
The use of machines in non-essential tasks.
The rejection of the use of machines at all.
The introduction of machines into the workplace.
19
The waves of (predominantly) African Americans moving from the rural South to the urban North was called the...
Trail of Tears
Long Walk
Great Migration
Immigration
20
Which choice best replaces the question mark in the graphic organizer?
Progressive Movement
Prohibition
Suffrage
Industrial Revolution
21
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
Light bulb
Telephone
Airplane
Automobile
22
Jim Crow was said to be...
Long and Boring
Fast and Furious
Separate but Equal
Tried and True
23
What is the Constitution?
The Bible
The Supreme Law of the land
A set of laws that different states CHOOSE to follow
An agreement between different countries and the US
24
What was the Industrial Revolution?
A time of peace and tranquility.
A slump in the economy.
A time when people were rising up.
A time of technological advancement.
25
Washing machines, electric stoves, and water pumps were...
Labor-saving products
Good in theory but didn't work out in the end
Entertainment products
Mechanical failures
26
Which development contributed strongly with powering labor-saving devices in the home?
Windmills
Generators
Natural gas
Electrification
27
Which type of discrimination is portrayed in this painting from his Great Migration series?
White people received the higher paying jobs in the North and Midwest.
African Americans experienced segregation in public facilities.
The Ku Klux Klan used fear and violence to intimidate African Americans.
There were few job opportunities for African Americans in the North.
28
The 21st Amendment reversed the 18th Amendment.
False
True
29
To 'prohibit' something is to allow it to happen.
False
True

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