Worksheetsfall2021 TEST U2 1920s
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 17mins
What group was reborn during the 1920s, targeting communists, immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African-Americans?
Nativist
Ku Klux Klan
Know Nothings
Anti-Saloon League
What was the economy like during the decade of the 1920's?
The 1920s saw increased consumer borrowing to buy luxury goods and stock market speculation
The 1920s saw a decrease in consumer borrowing
The 1920s saw a large increase in homelessness
The 1920s saw the start of an economic depression
The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s was
to take away the right to vote from Americans who were either Catholic or Jewish.
to preserve the way of life for White Protestants and their dominant role in society
to lynch as many African-Americans as they could
to fight against woman's rights
What group saw a spike in popularity in the 1920's in large part because African Americans were not their only target but branched out to discriminate against communists, immigrants, Catholics and Jews?
Democrats
Ku Klux Klan
Republicans
Anti-Saloon League
Which of the following best describes the Great Migration?
Birds heading South to escape the cold
African Americans heading North for better opportunities
Farmers selling goods and services
Increase in transportation technologies
Which of the following best explains what happened during the Era of Prohibition?
manufacture, transporting and selling alcoholic beverages was outlawed
20th Amendment was passed
women were granted the right to vote
segregation in public schools was prohibited
What was a 'speakeasy'?
illegal secret club where people bought and drank alcohol
women's suffrage group
poetry contest
training for public speaking
What did people commonly known as 'bootleggers do'?
transported/smuggled alcohol
men and women who wanted equal rights
Italian shoe makers
supporters of the 21st Amendment
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Sharp rise in art, writing, and music by African Americans whose themes centered around pride in culture and history of their community
Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece
F. Scott Fitzgerald's new books
Underground Speakeasies
Defendant's criticism of the draft was not protected by the First Amendment, because it was intended to result in a crime and created a clear and present danger to the enlistment and recruiting service of the U.S. armed forces during WWI. This was the verdict of WHICH court case?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Schenck v. U.S.
Korematsu v. U.S.
Brown v. Board of Education
Infamous mob boss in Chicago during the age of Prohibition who was arrested for tax fraud.
Al Capone
Bugsy Siegal
Frank Costello
Lucky Luciano
The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 had to do with teaching of religion versus ______.
school
Evolution
life
Christianity
Where would this motto have been seen? “Men, their rights and nothing more; Women, their rights and nothing less.”
Women's Suffrage newspaper
Marcus Garvey concerts
engraved on the door of a speakeasy
signs carried by the new KKK marching in Washington, D.C.
In 1875, a woman sued because she wasn't allowed to vote. What was the verdict of the Supreme Court?
The court ruled the constitution gave women the right to vote and no state could deny a woman the right to vote
The court ruled the constitution does not protect a women's right to vote.
Which of the following were methods suffragists used in the fight for women's suffrage? (there is more than one answer)
picketing
hunger strike
marches
media (speech, newspaper, buttons, banners)
For most of world history, what event killed women, or endangered their lives, took away all their freedom for most of their lives?
seeking an education
living as a nun
being a soldier during wartime
childbirth
How did Margaret Sanger risk going to prison in order to make life better for women?
she led marches for women's right to vote
she provided sex education and knowledge of birth control to women
she owned a store that made dresses for flappers
she sold makeup and cigarettes to young flappers
