1920s Learning Check

The Red Scare was a response to

• Prohibition.

• the Teapot Dome scandal.

• the Russian Revolution.

• the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

Marcus Garvey led a movement to

• segregate African Americans in northern cities.

• build up African American self-respect and economic power.

• unionize African American workers.

• create new African American homelands in the Caribbean Islands.

What notable legal contest exposed the widening cultural rift between religion and modern science during the twentieth century?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

• The Scopes trial

• Korematsu v. United States

In the Teapot Dome scandal, a government official received bribes for

• allowing private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves.

• allowing private interests to drill for oil in a national park.

• allowing lumber companies to cut trees in national forests.

• promising immunity for businessmen who overcharged the U.S. Navy.

Which of these does NOT represent the 1920s?

• a time of war & chaos

• a decade of cultural change

• increased freedom and dancing

• increased wealth

Which of these helped create popular culture throughout the United States?

• the radio

• prohibition

• women's suffrage

• the KKK

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?

• by making it easier for bootleggers to branch into other types of illegal activity

• by forcing police to enforce anti liquor laws

• by forcing farmers to grow grain for the production of alcohol

• by strengthening respect for the law

How was Henry Ford able to reduce the sale price of the Model T?

• with the use of the assembly line

• changing locations

• importing all raw materials

• increasing the wages of his workers

The literature of the Harlem Renaissance

• explored the pains and joys of being black in America

• explored the origins of jazz

• was written by Marcus Garvey

• argued for the separation of races

Which of these best describes the "New Woman" of the 1920s?

• They wore shorter skirts, bobbed their hair, and went to speakeasies

• They stayed home and cooked and cleaned

• They rejected the idea of suffrage

• They preferred the same fashions as their parents