Section 2

Question 1

For nearly a century, reformers like the woman’s Christian temperance Union had worked to what?

Answer 1

Ban alcoholic beverages.

Question 2

What did the 18th amendment do?

Answer 2

Banned alcoholic beverages.

Question 3

What is Prohibition?

Answer 3

A ban on the manufacture sale and transportation of liquor anywhere in United States.

Question 4

Where did some people manufacture their own alcohol?

Answer 4

In bathtubs.

Question 5

Who were bootleggers?

Answer 5

People who smuggled bottles of liquor in their boots across countries.

Question 6

What were illegal bars called which opened in nearly every city in time the United States?

Answer 6

Speak-easies.

Question 7

What did Prohibition give a boost?

Answer 7

Organized crime.

Question 8

who forced speakeasy owners to buy liquor from them and use the profits to bribe police, public officials, judges?

Answer 8

Gangsters.

Question 9

What is repeal?

Answer 9

Cancellation.

Question 10

Since prohibition was undermining respect for the law, many Americans called for the what of prohibition?

Answer 10

Repeal.

Question 11

What amendment repealed the 18th amendment?

Answer 11

The 21st amendment.

Question 12

What did the 19th amendment to?

Answer 12

Gave women the right to vote.

Question 13

Who set up the League of Women Voters?

Answer 13

Carrie Chapman Catt.

Question 14

What did the League of Women Voters work towards?

Answer 14

Educating voters and giving women the right to seven juries

Question 15

Who became the nation’s first women governors?

Answer 15

Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, and Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas.

Question 16

Who noted that women still lacked many legal rights?

Answer 16

Alice Paul.

Question 17

In many states, husband still had control over their wives what?

Answer 17

Earnings.

Question 18

What did Alice Paul propose which stated that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex?”

Answer 18

Equal rights amendment.

Question 19

Many people feared that they ERA went too far and might cause woman to loose what?

Answer 19

Legal protections.

Question 20

Was the ERA ratified?

Answer 20

No.

Question 21

Poor and working-class woman had long worked outside the home as what?

Answer 21

Factory workers and maids.

Question 22

In the 1920s, they were joined by middle-class women who went to work as what?

Answer 22

Teachers, typist, secretaries, and clerks.

Question 23

Women began to buy ready-made what instead of selling for the family?

Answer 23

Clothes.

Question 24

What made housework easier and encourage women to spend even more time on housework?

Answer 24

New electric appliances.

Question 25

The model T Ford car dropped from $850 to what?

Answer 25

$290.

Question 26

Did Americans have to be rich to buy a car?

Answer 26

No.

Question 27

What other industries did car sales spur the growth of?

Answer 27

Steer, tires, paint, and oil.

Question 28

States and towns paved roads and buillt what?

Answer 28

Highways.

Question 29

What sprang up across the country due to the model T Ford car?

Answer 29

Gas stations, garages, car dealers, motels, and roadside restaurants.

Question 30

What was a suburb?

Answer 30

Communities located outside of the city.

Question 31

What else did women insist on doing?

Answer 31

Driving.

Question 32

What did cars bring rural people closer to?

Answer 32

towns, shops, and movies.

Question 33

The automobile played a role in creating a new national what?

Answer 33

Mass culture.

Question 34

The automobile helped people from different parts the country do what?

Answer 34

Learn about one another.

Question 35

What did rising wages and labor saving appliances give families?

Answer 35

More money to spend and more leisure time in which to spend it.

Question 36

What was the country’s first radio station where did it broadcast?

Answer 36

The KDKA broadcasted in Pittsburgh.

Question 37

Each night after dinner, families gathered together around the radio to listen to what?

Answer 37

Comedies, westerns, classical music, jazz, news reports, and sport broadcasts.

Question 38

What was the movie capital of the world?

Answer 38

Hollywood.

Question 39

What did movies contribute to?

Answer 39

Mass culture.

Question 40

What types of movies did Americans go to once a week?

Answer 40

Westerns, romances, adventures, and comedies.

Question 41

The first movies didn’t have sound so the audience followed the plot by reading what?

Answer 41

Title cards.