1920s Review (22-23)

The 18th Amendment made the manufacturing, distribution, or sale of alcohol illegal, beginning this 13-year era in the United States.

• Prohibtion

• (1st) Red Scare

• nativism

• Harlem Renaissance

The case over the teaching of evolution in a biology classroom; it pitted the Bible and against evolution; fundamentalism was damaged and discouraged by the trial.

• Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Nat'l Assoc. for the Advance. of Colored People (NAACP)

• Scopes Trial

This civil rights leader and author supported aggressive action to gain full civil, economic, and political equality for black Americans; he was a co-founder of the NAACP.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Marcus Garvey

• Langston Hughes

• Zora Neal Hurston

The movement of southern, rural black Americans to northern cities as the cotton economy declined and Jim Crow laws persisted; thousands came north for wartime jobs in large cities during WWI and beyond. 

• The Exodus

• Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

• Reconstruction

The 1924 immigration policy created these for the number of new immigrants allowed to enter the U.S.; the formula used 1890 census data, which was chosen to yield a WASP majority in the population.

• speakeasies

• Palmer Raids

• quotas

• passports

Which groups were largely suspected of having many political radicals as its members during the (First) Red Scare?

• settlement houses

• flappers

• automobile mannufacturers

• labor unions

Which of the following is most closely associated with the "buy now, pay later" mindset?

• mass culture

• bootlegging

• installment plans

• trickle-down economics

Which of the following is NOT associated with the "New Woman"?

• 19th Amendment

• flappers

• Equal Rights Amendment

• talkies

Which of the following is most closely associated with organized crime in the 1920s?

• mass culture

• jazz

• bootlegging

• nativism

Businesses became more profitable in the 1920s for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• mass production

• advertising

• trickle-down economics

• Seattle General Strike