Roaring 20s

Can you recall what the 18th amendment is

• Made it illegal to make or sell alcohol

• Gave women the right to vote

• Led to a decrease in crime

• Gave African Americans the right to vote

During the 1920s, controversies concerning national Prohibition and the behavior of “flappers” were all signs of disagreement over…

• The return to normalcy

• Changing culture and lifestyles

• Causes of the Great Depression

• The benefits of new technology

The __________________________ ended prohibition and was passed in 1933.

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Smugglers who brought alcohol into the United States when it was illegal were called?

• Flappers

• Bootleggers

• Anarchists

• Communists

Nativists believed that native-born Americans

• Should not drink alcohol

• Are superior to immigrants and foreigners

• Should have better working conditions

• Are a lost generation

Nativism influenced the outcome of which 1920s court case?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Sacco and Vanzetti

• Plessy v. Ferguson

One of the ways that Americans purchased goods during the 1920s was through the use of…

• Credit cards and installment buying

• Assembly line

• Debt

• Recession

What are speakeasies?

• Illegal bars and clubs

• Jazz musicians

• Communication that reaches many people

• Powerful gangsters

What innovation, embraced by Henry Ford, made the production of automobiles more efficient (cheaper, faster, better)?

• Bessemer Process

• Just-In-Time Technology

• Assembly Line

• Time-Study Analysis

What movement during the 1920s caused many Americans to fear immigrants because they thought they could be communists?

• Red Scare

• Americanization Movement

• Social Gospel Movement

• Social Darwinism

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CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7