The Roaring Twenties

What does the term subversives refer to?

• People attempting to strengthen a political system or government

• People who live in subdivisions within a certain political district

• People attempting to weaken or destroy a political system or government

___________________ was the Attorney General for President Woodrow Wilson and was a leading advocate in the belief that Bolshevik supporters were behind American labor unrest.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• David Palmer

• J. Edgar Hoover

• Alexander Mitchell Palmer

________________ and ________________ were two Italian immigrants charged with murder and robbery as a result of the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare.

• Joey Fatone; Bartolomeo Vanzetti

• Nicola Sacco; Gavrilo Princip

• Gavrilo Princip; Franz Ferdinand

• Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti

What does the Red Scare refer to?

• Fear of Socialism

• Fear of Nationalism

• Fear of Imperialism

• Fear of Communism

Which of the following laws restricted the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during war?

• Sedition Act

• 20th Amendment

• Espionage Act

• 19th Amendment

What was the name given to Attorney General Palmer’s newly created division of the Justice Department?

• Palmer Raids

• Intelligence Division

• Sussex Plan

• League of Nations

Who was the man put in charge of gathering information and leading raids on subversives?

• J. Edgar Hoover

• Alexander Mitchell Palmer

• Woodrow Wilson

• Herbert Hoover

What was the name given to the raids between 1919 and 1920 in which several thousand suspected persons were arrested during the Red Scare, many of them without warrants?

• Wilson Raids

• Hoover Raids

• Palmer Raids

• Las Vegas Raiders

Which of the following amendments is considered the Prohibition Amendment, banning the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol during the 1920s?

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

With the creation of the ____________________ in 1926, Americans across the nation could now listen to the same programs, sporting events, and news broadcasts simultaneously.

• Columbia Broadcasting System

• Turner Sports

• Northern Broadcasting System

• National Broadcasting Company