Roaring 20's

The most direct result of the 18^th Amendment(Prohibition) was that ________

• people were mostly in support of the amendment.
• organized crime in America increased
• organized crime in America decreased
• people stopped drinking alchohol

The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 had to do with teaching of Fundamentalism and ______.

• school
• evolution
• abstinence
• religion

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During the 1920s people lives changed because they began listening to the what? 

• mass media 
• movies 
• radio 
• music 

These two Italian immigrants were wrongly convicted of murdering a man in the 1920’s. The evidence that had been collected by police did not support convicting these two men, and the evidence actually pointed away from the two. What were the names of these two men that were wrongly convicted of murder?

• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Mario and Luigi
• O'Reilly and Sansom
• Lenin and De Gaulle

These hate group gained traction in the 1920’s, even though they had been around since right after the Civil War. They are notorious for hating people who are of different races, or from different countries. What is the name of this hate group?

• NAACP
• War Hawks
• Klu Klux Klan
• Nazis

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What was the name given to secret bars where people acquired alcohol illegally?

• Speakeasies
• Top Secret Bars
• Secret Saloons
• Quiet Places

This man is one of the most famous criminals in U.S. History. He was rumored to have made $60 million a year during Prohibition. What was the name of the most famous bootlegger during Prohibition?

• Baby Face Nelson
• Al Capone
• George Harris
• James Jones

Many believe this author captured the spirit of the "Roaring Twenties" with his novel Titled The Great Gatsby.

• Paul Lawrence Dunbar
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Ernest Hemingway
• Louis Armstrong

_______________ were young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting.

• Expatriates
• Jazzers
• Flappers
• Scats

The cartoon shows a growing reluctance towards _________________in the 1920s 

• education
• immigration 
• buying on credit 
• eating stew