Roaring Twenties Study Guide

Which of these helped create popular culture throughout the United States?

• the radio

• prohibition

• women's suffrage

• the KKK

How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?

• by making it easier for bootleggers to branch into other types of illegal activity

• by forcing police to enforce anti liquor laws

• by forcing farmers to grow grain for the production of alcohol

• by strengthening respect for the law

At its heart, the Scopes Trial was a clash between

• religion and science

• biology and science

• evolution and science

• education and science

The literature of the Harlem Renaissance

• explored the pains and joys of being black in America

• explored the origins of jazz

• was written by Marcus Garvey

• argued for the separation of races

Which of these best describes the "New Woman" of the 1920s?

• They wore shorter skirts, bobbed their hair, and went to speakeasies

• They stayed home and cooked and cleaned

• They rejected the idea of suffrage

• They preferred the same fashions as their parents

Change in the constitution which prohibited the making, selling and transportation of alcohol.

• 18th Amend.

• 19th Amend.

• 21st Amend.

• 1st Amend.

Change in the constitution which gave women the right to vote.

• 19th Amend

• 18th Amed

• 21st Amend

• 1st Amed

Italians convicted of murder mainly because they were foreigners.

• Sacco & Vanzetti

• Scopes & Darrow

• Bryan & Darrow

• Mario & Luigi

A nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade’s prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom.

• roaring twenties

• silent twenties

• Jazz age

• Great Depression

Period in the 1920s when suspected communists and other radicals were arrested due to the fear of the spread of communism.

• Red Scare

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Scopes Trial

• KKK