Unit 5 L3

Question 1

African-American community in Florida that was burned to the ground and some of its residents killed by white residents from neighboring towns. In the 1980s, Rosewood survivors and their descendants were compensated by the Florida state government – first time a state had ever voted to compensate victims of racial violence.

Answer 1

ROSEWOOD INCIDENT

Question 2

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Support for the amendment came largely from the rural South and West by the mid-1920s only 19% supported Prohibition. Repealed in 1933 with the 21st Amendment.

Answer 2

18th AMENDMENT

Question 3

National Prohibition Act - established a Prohibition Bureau in the Treasury department to enforce the 18th Amendment. The agency was underfunded.

Answer 3

VOLSTEAD ACT

Question 4

Founded in 1909 to urge African Americans to protest racial violence and fight for legislation to protect African American rights. W.E.B. Du Bois is a founding member

Answer 4

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (N.A.A.C.P)

Question 5

Believed that African American should push for full equality and should not be content with an inferior social and economic status. Launched the “Niagara Movement” calling for equal economic opportunities and the right to vote. Founding member of the NAACP.

Answer 5

W.E.B. DUBOIS

Question 6

Born into slavery, later founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. In 1895, he proposed the “Atlanta Compromise” – the idea that African Americans would accept segregation and white rule in the South as long as they were given free vocational training and enjoyed basic legal rights.

Answer 6

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Question 7

Believed that African Americans should build a separate society. Promoted African American businesses, and encourage followers to return to Africa to help the natives build a mighty nation. Started the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914

Answer 7

MARCUS GARVEY

Question 8

Literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture. Led by well-educated, middle-class African Americans who expressed pride in the African American experience. 
Fundamentalism

Answer 8

Harlem Renaissance

Question 9

fashionable young women intent on enjoying herself and flouting the traditional standards of behavior.

Answer 9

FLAPPERS

Question 10

American novelist and short story writer, whose works are closely alligned with the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatestAmerican writers of the 20th century and considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s. Themese in his works highlights the decadence and lifesytle of the wealthy.

Answer 10

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 11

American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Major subjects deal with life in the South for African Americans

Answer 11

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 12

He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. He famously wrote about the period that “the negro was in vogue”,

Answer 12

LANGSTON HUGHES

Question 13

tWO Italian-born US anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster with very little evidence in 1920. There case represents the anti-immigrant sentiment during this time.

Answer 13

Sacco-Vanzetti Case

Question 14

A Science teacher was convicted for teaching evolution in high school in 1925.

Answer 14

SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL