1920's quiz

Question 1

Red scare

Answer 1

A period of time where the government arrested anarchists and people suspected of being Communists in fear that they would overthrow the government of the United States

Question 2

communism

Answer 2

An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property

Question 3

anarchy

Answer 3

A person who believes society functions best in the absence of government

Question 4

radical\

Answer 4

Someone whose views greatly differ than the “middle ground”

Question 5

nativism

Answer 5

acting a certain way towards people native of a place

Question 6

Palmer raids

Answer 6

attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport left-wing radicals, especially anarchists and communists, from the United States

Question 7

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 7

Italian anarchists who were found guilty for robbery and murder based on “flimsy” evidence

Question 8

Warren Harding: “A Return to Normalcy”

Answer 8

First of three Republican presidents of the 1920’s; promised a “return to normalcy”

Question 9

Fundamentalists vs. Modernists

Answer 9

bible vs. scientific

Question 10

The Scopes Trial

Answer 10

teacher sent on trail for teaching modern way of knowledge

Question 11

The Great Migration

Answer 11

A period of time where hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved to Northern cities and the West from the rural South in search of finding good jobs

Question 12

Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 12

believed that people shoud wait for rights vs people should fight for rights

Question 13

The Harlem Renaissance

Answer 13

a renewal and flourishing of African American literary and musical culture during the years after World War I in the Harlem section of New York City