1920s

Which amendment to the US Constitution began the Prohibition Era?

• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19

Who was the biggest crime boss of the 1920's, based out of Chicago?

• Bugs Moran
• Al Capone
• Johnny Torrio
• Big Jim Colisemo

An illegal bar set up to sell alcohol during the 1920's was called a

• jazz club
• speakeasy
• dance hall
• flag waver

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Making & selling alcohol in violation of Prohibition laws was called

• racing the drag
• rotgut 
• dropsy time
• bootlegging

What moved America from a rural to an urban nation?

• The automobile
• Trains
• Horse and buggy

What concept did the state of Tennessee prohibit being taught in schools?

• Evolution
• Listening
• Technology

Independent women of the 1920s who cut their hair short, work makeup and lipstick and wore short skirts were known as 

• Reds
• suffragettes
• the KKK
• flappers

Which group's activities reflected a pattern of intolerance toward immigrants in the US. during the 1920's?

• American Indian Movement
• United Farm Workers
• Ku Klux Klan
• National Organization for Women

What 2 men were opposing lawyers in the Scopes Monkey Trial?

• William Jennings Bryan & Clarence Darrow
• Charles Lindbergh & Glenn Curtiss
• Marcus Garvey & Booker T. Washington
• Henry Ford & Andrew Carnegie

Which event of the 1920s best reflects the conflict in American society between science and religion?

• Scopes trial
• Red Scare
• Quota Acts
• Sacco and Vanzetti