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The economic boom/ financial speculation of the 1920's were caused in part by?
Increased government restrictions on big business.
Mobilization of the economy for war.
The expansion of civil rights to women and minorities.
Installment buying and an unregulated stock market.
2
Fundamentalists believed that...
That the "loose" society of the 1920's was acceptable.
The Bible should be taken literally.
Christianity was not important to society.
Evolution should be taught in classrooms.
3
Established the number of immigrants allowed into the United States from foreign countries.
Immigrant Plan
The Nativism Plan
Quota System
Illegal Immigrant Act of 1921
4
Believed that Blacks should return to Africa in order to preserve cultural roots.
Louis Armstrong.
Ella Fitzgerald.
Duke Ellington.
Marcus Garvey.
5
The U.S. went back to this ideology after its involvement in WWI...
Reconstruction
Environmentalism
Isolationism
Progressiveness
6
The manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited.
21st Amendment
18th Amendment
13th Amendment
19th Amendment
7
What was the Great Migration?
Blacks moved South from the North in search of better lives.
Blacks moved North from the South in search of better lives.
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Calvin Coolidge's presidency was established around the interests and values of?
Ethnic minorities.
Farmers and wage-earners.
Progressive reformers.
Business community/ Big business.
9
The lawyer that defended John Scopes? (In favor of teaching Evolution in the classroom)
Calvin Coolidge
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
William Howard Taft
10
The Harlem Renaissance contributed to the development of what genre of music?
Blues.
Reggae.
Pop.
Jazz.
11
This man defended the side of Creationism in the famous Scopes Trial?
Clarence Darrow
John J. Pershing
William J. Bryan
William McKinley
12
One effect of prohibition during the 1920's was?
The creation of urban artistic colonies.
A rise in organized crime.
A decline in dancing and socializing.
An increase in alcoholism.
13
Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry by implementing what technique?
Installment plan.
Assembly line.
Quota system.
Equal pay for workers.
14
A person who smuggled alcohol into the U.S. during prohibition is known as a...?
Bootlegger
Speakeasy
Communist
Flapper
15
Was an instrumental figure in shaping Aviation in the U.S.
Glenn Curtis.
Louis Armstrong.
Duke Ellington.
Marcus Garvey.
16
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were?
Gangsters in Al Capone's Gang
Italian immigrants and known anarchists
Italian immigrants who worked for Henry Ford
Founding Fathers of the KKK
17
This government official sent agents out on a series of raids to hunt down communists.
Herbert Hoover
Oscar DePriest
Mitchell Palmer
Warren G. Harding
18
What caused the Red Scare in the U.S. in 1919 and 1920?
The executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.
The murder trial of Sacco and Vanzetti.
The fear of a communist revolution in the U.S.
Strikes by labor unions.
19
Eugenics could be described as a..?
Ideology that improved the hygiene of the poorer class.
Idea that stated everyone should be allowed to have kids.
"Science" of human improvement through controlled breeding.
A practice that increased family sizes during the 1920's.
20
Was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
Charles Lindbergh
Thomas Edison
21
Its membership sharply increased as a result of the Red Scare...enforced racial violence.
The Communist Party
The Triple Entente
Fundamentalists
KKK
22
Biology teacher who violated the law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution.
John Scopes
Oscar DePriest
William J. Bryan
Clarence Darrow
23
What was a speakeasy?
A woman who favored a "loose" lifestyle.
An underground bar where alcohol was sold illegally.
A person who smuggled alcohol around the U.S. illegally.
A location where people met to discuss political matters.
24
The stock market will crash at the end of the 1920's as a result of a unregulated stock market.
False.
True.
25
This is an economic and political system based on single-party government ruled by a dictator.
Federalism
Democracy
Communism
Republicanism
26
This industry in the 1920's helped the steel, rubber, and petroleum industries expand.
Automobile.
Airplane.
Farm produce.
Sewing Machine.
27
The Palmer Raids were?
Actions taken by Gov. agents against suspected communists.
Riots sparked by racial tension in major U.S. cities.
Attacks on striking workers.
Actions taken by veterans against the government.
28
What definition best describes a flapper in the 1920's?
An older woman who was part of the fundamentalist movement.
A young woman who is intent on enjoying herself.
A woman who stays at home and keeps the house in order.
A woman who is modest and conservative.
