Unit 5: The Roaring Twenties

_______ demonstrate the anti-immigration feelings of the 1920's because they were executed for a robbery on very, very thin evidence.

• Sacco and Vanzetti

• Laurel and Hardy

• Rogers and Hammerstein

• The Howard Brothers

Most of the consumer products driving spending during the 1920s were tied to this industry

• smart technology

• electricity

• steel

• coal

What did the Eighteenth Amendment do?

• This amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.

• This amendment outlawed the advertisement of alcohol.

• This amendment changed the age a person had to be to buy alcohol.

• This amendment granted women suffrage.

What was the name of the dramatic shift of African-Americans from Southern states to the North called?

• Great Migration
• Racial Riots
• Back to Africa
• Economic Opportunity

What was the primary reason for the raids described in this excerpt?

• To prevent workers from joining labor organizations
• To block civil rights advocates from staging public protests
• To suppress the teaching of evolution in colleges
• To halt the spread of communist ideas by radicals

Which invention helped to spread new music and information in the 1920's?

• the trumpet
• radio
• railroads
• newspapers

"Buy now, pay later" most closely relates to which of the following during the 1920s?

• loans
• Buying on Margin
• Installment Plan Buying
• Credit Cards

How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?

• by forcing police to enforce anti-liquor laws
  
• the amount of bootleggers and smugglers rose
• by forcing farmers to grow grain for the production of alcohol
  
•  by strengthening respect for the law
  

The "Flappers" of the 1920s

• embraced Victorian morality

• rejected the notion of suffrage

• rejected old-school morals and expectations.

• began to prefer more conservative fashions.

Which of the following statements BEST explains why many people came to oppose prohibition?

•  It was too difficult to find speakeasies in large cities.
• Too many federal agents were hired to enforce the ban on alcohol
•  The bootlegging industry gave rise to widespread lawlessness and crime.
•  More women began to drink during prohibition than before alcohol was outlawed.