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1
The Palmer Raids were?
Actions taken by Gov. agents against suspected communists.
Attacks on striking workers.
Riots sparked by racial tension in major U.S. cities.
Actions taken by veterans against the government.
2
This man defended the side of Creationism in the famous Scopes Trial?
William McKinley
Clarence Darrow
William J. Bryan
John J. Pershing
3
What caused the Red Scare in the U.S. in 1919 and 1920?
The murder trial of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Strikes by labor unions.
The fear of a communist revolution in the U.S.
The executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.
4
The manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited.
13th Amendment
19th Amendment
18th Amendment
21st Amendment
5
Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry by implementing what technique?
Assembly line.
Installment plan.
Quota system.
Equal pay for workers.
6
What definition best describes a flapper in the 1920's?
A young woman who is intent on enjoying herself.
A woman who is modest and conservative.
An older woman who was part of the fundamentalist movement.
A woman who stays at home and keeps the house in order.
7
Eugenics could be described as a..?
"Science" of human improvement through controlled breeding.
Ideology that improved the hygiene of the poorer class.
Idea that stated everyone should be allowed to have kids.
A practice that increased family sizes during the 1920's.
8
Its membership sharply increased as a result of the Red Scare...enforced racial violence.
KKK
The Communist Party
The Triple Entente
Fundamentalists
9
Biology teacher who violated the law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution.
Oscar DePriest
Clarence Darrow
John Scopes
William J. Bryan
10
One effect of prohibition during the 1920's was?
An increase in alcoholism.
A rise in organized crime.
The creation of urban artistic colonies.
A decline in dancing and socializing.
11
Calvin Coolidge's presidency was established around the interests and values of?
Business community/ Big business.
Progressive reformers.
Ethnic minorities.
Farmers and wage-earners.
12
Established the number of immigrants allowed into the United States from foreign countries.
Immigrant Plan
Illegal Immigrant Act of 1921
Quota System
The Nativism Plan
13
This industry in the 1920's helped the steel, rubber, and petroleum industries expand.
Airplane.
Sewing Machine.
Automobile.
Farm produce.
14
What was the Great Migration?
Blacks moved North from the South in search of better lives.
Blacks moved South from the North in search of better lives.
15
A person who smuggled alcohol into the U.S. during prohibition is known as a...?
Bootlegger
Communist
Flapper
Speakeasy
16
The stock market will crash at the end of the 1920's as a result of a unregulated stock market.
False.
True.
17
Fundamentalists believed that...
The Bible should be taken literally.
Evolution should be taught in classrooms.
Christianity was not important to society.
That the "loose" society of the 1920's was acceptable.
18
Believed that Blacks should return to Africa in order to preserve cultural roots.
Ella Fitzgerald.
Marcus Garvey.
Louis Armstrong.
Duke Ellington.
19
The economic boom/ financial speculation of the 1920's were caused in part by?
Mobilization of the economy for war.
Installment buying and an unregulated stock market.
The expansion of civil rights to women and minorities.
Increased government restrictions on big business.
20
The U.S. went back to this ideology after its involvement in WWI...
Environmentalism
Isolationism
Progressiveness
Reconstruction
21
The lawyer that defended John Scopes? (In favor of teaching Evolution in the classroom)
Clarence Darrow
Calvin Coolidge
William Howard Taft
William Jennings Bryan
22
The Harlem Renaissance contributed to the development of what genre of music?
Blues.
Pop.
Reggae.
Jazz.
23
This is an economic and political system based on single-party government ruled by a dictator.
Communism
Republicanism
Democracy
Federalism
24
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were?
Founding Fathers of the KKK
Italian immigrants and known anarchists
Gangsters in Al Capone's Gang
Italian immigrants who worked for Henry Ford
25
Was an instrumental figure in shaping Aviation in the U.S.
Glenn Curtis.
Marcus Garvey.
Louis Armstrong.
Duke Ellington.
26
What was a speakeasy?
A woman who favored a "loose" lifestyle.
A location where people met to discuss political matters.
An underground bar where alcohol was sold illegally.
A person who smuggled alcohol around the U.S. illegally.
27
Was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Thomas Edison
Wilbur Wright
Charles Lindbergh
Orville Wright
28
This government official sent agents out on a series of raids to hunt down communists.
Mitchell Palmer
Warren G. Harding
Herbert Hoover
Oscar DePriest
