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WorksheetsScopes trial and Sacco and Vanzetti
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
In what year did the Scopes Trial take place?
a)
1920
b)
1925
c)
1930
d)
1935
2.
Where did the Scopes Trial occur?
a)
Dayton, Tennessee
b)
Dayton, Ohio
c)
Nashville, Tennessee
d)
Indianapolis, Indiana
3.
The trial was about whether _______ should be taught in schools?
a)
reading
b)
biology
c)
religion
d)
evolution
4.
Which scientist discovered the theory of evolution?
a)
Leonardo DaVinci
b)
Charles Darwin
c)
Samuel Goldberg
d)
John Butler
5.
Which act prevented schools from teaching evolution?
a)
The Watershed Act
b)
The Homestead Act
c)
The Butler Act
d)
The Boycott Act
6.
The trial pit evolutionists against __________.
a)
fundamentalists
b)
revolutionaries
c)
progressives
d)
the illiterate
7.
Who was the lawyer for the prosecution?
a)
William Jennings Bryan
b)
Clarence Darrow
c)
John Scopes
d)
John Butler
8.
Who was the lawyer for the defense?
a)
John Scopes
b)
John Ralston
c)
William Jennings Bryan
d)
Clarence Darrow
9.
Who was the defendant?
a)
John Butler
b)
John Scopes
c)
George Rappalyea
d)
H.L. Mencken
10.
Which organization put out an advertisement that they were looking for a defendant in a trial about the Butler Act?
a)
the ABA
b)
the WMCA
c)
the DMV
d)
the ACLU
11.
Which of the two lawyers had run for president and had been Secretary of State?
a)
William Jennings Bryan
b)
Clarence Darrow
12.
Which of the two lawyers had been famous for defending high-profile criminals?
a)
Clarence Darrow
b)
William Jennings Bryan
13.
Who was the judge in the trial?
a)
John Darrow
b)
John Butler
c)
John Scopes
d)
John Raulston
14.
John Scopes was found _________.
a)
innocent
b)
guilty
15.
What was John Scopes' punishment?
a)
a $100 fine
b)
a 5-10 year jail sentence
c)
a loss of his teaching license
d)
a $500,000 fine
16.
Which is true of the jury?
a)
it was half evolutionists and half creationists
b)
it was made up of 12 white men and women
c)
it was made up of 12 white men
d)
it was made up of 12 black and white men
17.
How did Mitchel A. Palmer die
a)
A bomb
b)
old age
c)
car crash
d)
alien abduction
18.
How did Sacco and Vanzetti get killed
a)
They drowned
b)
They got executed
c)
Got hit by a car
d)
Old age
19.
Who are Sacco & Vanzetti
a)
Communists
b)
Fascists
c)
Serial Killers
d)
Anarchists
20.
These two Italian immigrants were wrongly convicted of murdering a man in the 1920’s. The evidence that had been collected by police did not support convicting these two men, and the evidence actually pointed away from the two. What were the names of these two men that were wrongly convicted of murder?
a)
Sacco and Vanzetti
b)
Mario and Luigi
c)
O'Reilly and Sansom
d)
Lenin and De Gaulle
21.
The cartoon shows a growing reluctance towards _________________in the 1920s
a)
education
b)
immigration
c)
buying on credit
d)
eating stew
22.
Millions of Black Americans migrated North during the early 1900s and into the 1920s. This is known as:
a)
The Big Move
b)
The Great Migration
c)
The Great Agitation
d)
The Great Separation
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