The Roaring Twenties

Prohibition led to all of the following except?

• Alcohol was prohibited.

• The rise of organized bootleggers and gangsters.

• The passing of the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage).

• Illegal speakeasies (bars) opened up in many big cities.

Which of the following was a big change that took place in American society in the 1920s?

• More people were living in the rural areas rather than urban areas.

• Most people, especially in the rural America, got electricity and radios.

• Traditional dress styles for women were the fashion.

• African American culture spread to Northern cities.

The image above reflects what growing modern belief during the 1920's?

• Women's important role as the housewife

• Women's important role in social reform movements

• Women's changing social role in fashion and moral beliefs

• Women's role in the industrial army

This image of a family listening to the radio illustrates...

• increased leisure time due to higher wages and more free time

• the fear of the Red Scare and the outbreak of Communism in the United States

• how the mass production of cars impacted people's mobility

• the positive impact of Prohibition on the 1920's family

The National Origins Act of 1924

• reduced immigration quotas

• increased the amount of immigrants allowed in the U.S.

• required immigrants to read English before becoming citizens

• required all immigrants to be able to speak English

An Anti-immigration sentiment (feeling or fear) is called

• Fundamentalism

• Nativism

• Communism

• Modernism

Who were the Palmer Raids meant to find and root out?

• Anarchists

• Communists

• Socialists

• All of the above

The following cartoon illustrates...

• the fear during the Red Scare that labor strikes were the effect of communists and communist sympathisers

• The growing power of the steel workers union

• The need for steel to build large skyscrapers in urban centers

• The anger over Prohibition

The Scopes "monkey" Trial is an example of...

• the clash between fundamentalism and evolutionism in schools

• the clash between American civil liberties and the needs of the government

• the growing influence of African American art, literature, and music on a national scale

• None of the following apply

Woody Guthrie's "Two Good Men" illustrate

• the nativist and intolerant attitudes of many Americans during the 1920s.

• The crimes of Laurel and Hardy

• the acceptance of immigrants

• The use of Jazz music as a way to bridge ethnic and racial differences