Roaring Twenties - 8th grade

Which amendment resulted in speakeasies being established?

• Twenty-first

• Twentieth

• Nineteenth

• Eighteenth

What was the cause of speakeasies and bootleggers?

• Prohibition

• Progressive Movement

• Suffrage

• Industrial Revolution

The growth of organized crime during the 1920s is most closely related to the --

• laws against making alcohol

• increase in unemployed workers

• collapse of the stock market

• rise of labor unions

What were the illegal secret bars of the Prohibition Era called?

• Bootleggers

• Saloons

• Speakeasies

• Pubs

All of the following are reasons African Americans migrated to the North or Midwest during the early to mid-1900s EXCEPT--

• to find better jobs

• to face discrimination and violence

• to escape from "Jim Crow" laws

• to have a better life for their family

In which city did the Harlem Renaissance orginate

• Philadelphia

• Chicago

• New York

• New Orleans

The period of rebirth of African American art forms is known as the --

• Black Eagles

• Harlem Revival

• Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

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

• the radio

• prohibition

• women's suffrage

• the KKK

Presidents Harding and Coolidge favored policies that

• supported the growth of business

• encouraged activism

• brought about social reform

• discouraged laissez faire

At its heart, the Scopes Trial was a clash between

• religion and science

• biology and science

• evolution and science

• education and science