1920s America

Question 1

Attorney General who led raids against suspected Communists in the 1920s after his home was bombed.

Answer 1

A. Mitchell Palmer

Question 2

An artistic and intellectual African-American movement based in Harlem, New York, in the 1920s.

Answer 2

Harlem Renaissance

Question 3

Using modern advertising and business techniques; playing on powerful fears of immigrants, Catholics, and other groups.

Answer 3

Ways the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s attracted new followers:

Question 4

A new offce set up to investigate Communist threats after Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer was sent a bomb in the mail.

Answer 4

Intelligence Division of the Justice Department (later called the FBI)

Question 5

Culture based on buying and selling, driven by increasing amounts of leisure time, cheaper products thanks to mass production, and advances in advertising.

Answer 5

Consumerism in the 1920s

Question 6

A trial of two Italian anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The men were convicted, probably thanks mostly to anti-anarchist and anti-immigrant sentiment.

Answer 6

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

Question 7

Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall secretly allowed oil drilling in land set aside as a national reserve.

Answer 7

Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 8

A huge criminal network sprung up to provide people with the alcohol that they could no longer get legally.

Answer 8

Consequences of Prohibition in the 1920s

Question 9

A poet of the 1920s; one of the most influential figures in the Harlem Renaissance.

Answer 9

Langston Hughes

Question 10

A new model of car, developed by industrialist Henry Ford, made cars affordable for the middle class.

Answer 10

Model T

Question 11

Effective starting from 1920, it prohibited the manufacture or sale of alcohol in the United States.

Answer 11

18th Amendment to the US Constitution

Question 12

A writer and civil rights activist who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance.

Answer 12

W. E. B. Du Bois

Question 13

Making alcohol illegal. Prohibition was inconsistently enforced and alcohol was widely available illegally.

Answer 13

Prohibition (as it refers to the 1920’s US)

Question 14

A national organization focused on moral reform. The Klan attacked immigrants, Jews, Black people, and Catholics.

Answer 14

Ku Klux Klan (as it existed in the 1920s)

Question 15

A wealthy industrialist whose assembly-line production technique for automobiles put car ownership within reach of the middle class.

Answer 15

Henry Ford

Question 16

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos

Answer 16

Popular American writers of the 1920s

Question 17

A group of young African-American men accused and convicted of rape in 1931 on dubious evidence.

Answer 17

Scottsboro Boys

Question 18

A style of fine art, architecture (like the Chrysler Building in NYC), fashion, and furniture in the 1920s. It featured bold colors and geometric shapes.

Answer 18

Art Deco

Question 19

Increased mobility for ordinary and new industries including gas stations and hotels.

Answer 19

Effects of the spread and development of the personal automobile in the 1920s:

Question 20

A Supreme Court case in which the Court ultimately found that nine Black men (the Scottsboro Boys) had been denied a fair trial because none of their race were allowed in juries.

Answer 20

Norris v. Alabama

Question 21

An intellectual and artistic movement of the 1920s focused on the expression of African-American culture.

Answer 21

Harlem Renaissance

Question 22

A trial contesting the right of a biology teacher to teach public school students about evolution.

Answer 22

Scopes Trial of 1925