The Roaring 20s and Great Depression

Why were more people able to buy consumer goods in the 1920s

• Wages rose faster than prices

• People bought products on credit

• People were bored so they wanted to buy things

• People saved money during WWI

What was an effect of Prohibition?

• Criminals made money and police couldn't/didn't enforce the law

• People became depressed because they couldn't drink

• Police arrested more people in the 1920s

• Alcohol became scarce

Which statement is not true about women in the 1920s

• Women had more political power because of suffrage

• Women found new ways to express themselves socially

• it became acceptable for women to smoke in public

• women earned better pay than men

The red scare involved the persecution of what kind of people?

• African-Americans

• criminals

• communists and anarchists

• immigrants

Nativists were people who were against:

• African Americans

• immigrants

• communists and anarchists

• Native Americans

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

• the Palmer Raids were the result of American's fear of communists and anarchists

• civil rights were taken away during the First Red Scare

• Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty because of fear of immigrants and anarchists

• the Supreme Court declared immigration laws unconstitutional

The Scopes trial was about the controversy over:

• prohibition

• abortion and women's rights

• science and religion

• racism and nativism

The Great Migration was the movement of:

• African Americans out of the south to urban areas

• Native Americans across the western plains

• Eastern Europeans to the United States

• African Americans out of Northern cities into the rural South

Which statement best characterized the Harlem Renaissance?

• African Americans were not allowed to play their music anywhere but Harlem

• African Americans left the South and moved to the North

• African American art and literature found little acceptance in the white community

• African American art and literature helped to integrate cultures in the 1920s

During the Dust Bowl years:

• Farmers moved to the South to start sharecropping

• Farmers moved to the west to find jobs

• Farmers waited until the drought was over and resumed their lives

• Farmers started selling dust