USII. 6b, –SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGES

What were the illegal bars of the Prohibition Era called?

• Speakeasies
• Saloons
• Watering holes
• Pubs

Which of the following was a result of Prohibition during the 1920's? 

• Growth of organized crime
• More jobs on farms
• Less unemployment in cities
• Fall of the stock market

The ratification of the 21st Amendment marked the end of--

• women's suffrage
• segregated society
• the Progressive Movement
• Prohibition

Which of the following best describes a reason that African Americans would have moved from the South to the North and Midwest between 1910 and 1930?

• The climate was better.
• There were more jobs.
• The housing was free.
• There were fewer taxes.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

______?______
-Americans called for repeal
-Rise of organized crime
-Bootleggers
-Speakeasies
Which title would best fit in the blank provided?

• Causes of Prohibition
• Resolutions of Prohibition
• Solutions of Prohibition
• Effects of Prohibition

Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution created Prohibition?

• 15th
• 18th
• 19th
• 21st

People who wished to make alcohol illegal in the United States were part of the _______________________ Movement.

• Suffrage
• Prohibition
• Temperance
• Harlem Renaissance

During the Great Migration, some African Americans chose to move North and to the Midwest for several reasons. Which of the following was most likely NOT a reason that they would have migrated? 

• The hope for a better job.
• The desire to escape Jim Crow Laws.
• The cotton crop failed and many lost their jobs.
• They wanted to move to a place with a better climate.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Significant shift over time in cultural practices, including norms and values.

• social change

• suffrage

• The Roaring Twenties

• Harlem Renaissance

During the early 1900s the movement for prohibition pushed legislators to enact social change throughout the United States. Which social change was encouraged by the movement for prohibition in the United States?

• outlawing of alcohol in the U.S.

• integration of public facilities in the U.S.

• limitations on foreign immigration to the U.S.

• establishment of civil rights for minorities in the U.S.