Roaring 20's

Question 1

Attacks on suspected radicals

Answer 1

palmer raids

Question 2

Widespread fear of communism in the united states

Answer 2

red scare

Question 3

A person who believes in the destruction of the gov.

Answer 3

anarchist

Question 4

A system which holds that all people should share equally in society’s wealth

Answer 4

communism

Question 5

A young woman who behaved in non traditional ways

Answer 5

Flapper

Question 6

Music that blends different Music forms and is often composed on the spot

Answer 6

jazz

Question 7

smuggler of illegal liquor

Answer 7

bootlegger

Question 8

Illegal bar where liquor was sold during the prohibition

Answer 8

Speak easy

Question 9

Religious beliefs based on a strict interpretation of the bible

Answer 9

fundamentalism

Question 10

Who was the attorney general who raided communist party headquarters and arrested many people during the Anti- communist campaign?

Answer 10

A. Mitchell Palmer

Question 11

In this famous case, the political ideas of two defendants played a major role in the criminal trial and ultimately their conviction

Answer 11

Sacco and Vanzetti trials

Question 12

What was the Post war movement in the United States called that supported all things american and opposed or attacked ideas or people viewed as foreign or anti-american

Answer 12

100% Americanism

Question 13

Which country’s army, led by Vladimir I. Lenin, took control and later created the soviet union, causing fear in americans due to their belief in worldwide communism?

Answer 13

Russia or the Soviet Union

Question 14

What term is used to describe the distrust of anything foreign?

Answer 14

Nativism

Question 15

Why was John Scopes put on trial in Tennessee?

Answer 15

For Violating the law against teaching evolution

Question 16

What was the outcome of the John Scopes trial

Answer 16

Scopes was fined $100 for violating the law

Question 17

What did the Volstead act enforce in 1920?

Answer 17

The prohibition of alcohol

Question 18

Name the fundamentalist preacher who spoke out against the ills of alcohol

Answer 18

Billy Sunday

Question 19

What constitutional protections were the newly formed aclu trying to secure in the scopes trial?

Answer 19

Freedom of speech

Question 20

What did the 19th amendment to the US constitution grant to women in 1920

Answer 20

suffrage/ voting

Question 21

Who was Al Capone

Answer 21

A gangster involved in illegal liquor business

Question 22

Why did the federal authorities have a difficult time enforcing prohibition

Answer 22

Bootleggers bribed city officials and police to turn a blind eye to the criminal activities and the public were still willing consumers of the illegal booze

Question 23

What was Urbanization

Answer 23

A population shift from rural areas to urban cities

Question 24

How did the role of women change in the 1920’s

Answer 24

Took jobs, made their own money, looked for greater equality in their relationships, cut their hair short, wore make-up, and promoted a lifestyle of independence and freedom

Question 25

What was the name for this movement of African Americans Northward

Answer 25

The great migration

Question 26

What organization did W.E.B. DU Bois help found?

Answer 26

NAACP

Question 27

How did the ideas of DU BOIS and Garvey differ

Answer 27

Du Bois advocated for full citizenship rights in the US, while Garvey pushed the back to Africa movement and the creation of independent black empire

Question 28

What was Langston Hughes known for?

Answer 28

Writing poetry about black pride and hope

Question 29

Who was Hubert Julian

Answer 29

The black eagle of Harlem- known for parachuting from a plane playing a gold saxophone