The Roarin Twenties

Question 1

Explain why prohibition didn’t work

Answer 1

• the mafia grew

- Americans refused to obey the law

Question 2

After World War I industry shifted too peacetime production what does that mean and what was the result of that

Answer 2

• high unemployment and strikes

- Woman left jobs to give them back to men who came home from the war

Question 3

Define red scare

Answer 3

Fear of communism

Question 4

Immigration laws of the 1920s scalled for a quota system. Explain what a quota system is ad effects of it

Answer 4

• reduce number of immigrants

- banned the manufacture sale or transportation of liquor

Question 5

Name of the civil rights leader who found me NAACP what is NAACP

Answer 5

• national association of colored people

- founded in NYC by a group of biracial activists

Question 6

What was the Harlem Renaissance and describe the impact on society

Answer 6

• Louis Armstrong duke Ellington impacted the music industry
• African Americans pride flourished in northern cities

Question 7

Define consumerism

Answer 7

• The protection of promotion of the interests of communism

- increase in advertising and increase in consumer spending (credit card was made)

Question 8

Define nativists and KKK what were similarities between the two groups

Answer 8

Nativists- people who dislike immigrants and thought they were ruining the country(immigrants targeted)

KKK- used violence against everything except for white Protestants

Question 9

Defied the 19th Amendment and who benefited from this

Answer 9

Women have the right to vote

Question 10

Exploit the Scopes trial

Answer 10

Theory of evolution

• taught in public schools

Question 11

Who was a famous aviator during the 1920’s

Answer 11

Charles Lindbergh