US History 2 Quiz 1 Unit 1 1920s era

Question 1

1. Russia started spreading communist ideas to other countries and were scared they were going to spread it to the U.S
2. Workers in many industries went on strikes.
3. Fears that immigrants, particularly new ones were bringing communist and radical ideas to destroy capitalism, freedom, and democracy

Answer 1

Causes of the Red Scare and reasons why Americans were fearful after World War 1

Question 2

Protecting the people that were born, or native to that country, and not necessarily protecting the immigrants.

Answer 2

Nativism

Question 3

A controversial murder case in braintree MA where two italian anarchists were not given a fair trial. They were found guilty and were sentenced to death.

Answer 3

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 4

Why did the ku klux klan rise again during the 1920s
A racist group that used violence on anyone who was not white prodistian christran. It became popular again in the 1920s because people started paying people for recruitment.

Answer 4

Why did the ku klux klan rise again during the 1920s

Question 5

An act passed to limit migration into the United States.

Answer 5

Emergency Quota Act

Question 6

1.Many Americans are pessimistic about cultural problems and are tired of people trying to reform society.
2. Warren Harding wanted a Return to Normalcy
3. Many new cultural changes such as automobiles,movies,radio,jazz, etc…

Answer 6

1920’s american cultural values

Question 7

Science and technology are driving many urban changes.

Answer 7

The significance of a majority urban population by 1920

Question 8

Automobiles, Movies, Radio, Jazz Music, house appliances, magazines and Advertising, Flappers

Answer 8

Technological advances and new consumer products in the 1920s

Question 9

Using credit allowed a buy now pay later system.

Answer 9

Importance of credit in 1920

Question 10

A man who flew across the atlantic ocean in a plane. This showed society what technology was capable of

Answer 10

Charles Lindbergh

Question 11

a author whose fiction represented new literary styles

Answer 11

Ernest Hemingway

Question 12

famous writer who created colorful glamarous characters.

Answer 12

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 13

radios, newspapers, movies, and magazines did more than entertain. They aimed at a broad audience and were easily available to everyone.

Answer 13

Forms of Mass Media

Question 14

1. Youth and Personal freedom.
2. ideas of romance, pleasure, and friendship of a successful marriage.
3. women began to live for themselves and have their own individual identities.
4. a new fashion that encouraged women to shorten their hair and dress in unconventional ways (flappers)
5. authombile gave people more independence and ways to seek entertainment

Answer 14

New morality and its aspects during the 1920’s

Question 15

1. innovations such as credit cards challenge tradidtion ideas of work and frugality(living simply)
2. in more rural areas there is some resistance to change and they say religion and the authority of the bible is why the resist change.

Answer 15

1920s Modern Values vs. traditional values

Question 16

automobiles allowed youths to go out and be more independent. many used cars to go out and seek new forms of entertainment.

Answer 16

social and economic effects of the automboile

Question 17

A man named John T. Scopes taught evoloution when it was outlawed in tenesee because of the butler act. The butler act said you could only teach evoloution as it was taught in the bible. John T. Scopes was found guilty in court and fined 100 dollars, eventually it was overturned.

Answer 17

Scopes Trial debate over the butler act

Question 18

In 1921 tulsa was burned to the ground by a white mob. Huge act of racism and we still don’t know who died from it. There is still a lot unknown about the events in tulsa. It wasn’t taught in schools for the longest time, even in Tulsa.

Answer 18

Tulsa Massacre of 1921

Question 19

Laws that segregated black people in the south

Answer 19

Jim Crow Laws

Question 20

Laws passed to prevent black people from voting. Such as literacy tests, poll taxes

Answer 20

Disenfranchisement of Black people

Question 21

When someone was accused of a crime a huge mob of people would publicly execute them

Answer 21

lynchings

Question 22

When there was a huge group of people moving from the south to the north to find jobs

Answer 22

Great Migration

Question 23

A poet who gives inspiration to readers. He talks about how reading is important and you should master the language that you are reading

Answer 23

Marcus Garvey

Question 24

A massive cultural revival of Black people where they started playing music and getting into different hobbies

Answer 24

Harlem Renissance

Question 25

The fundamental ability of a government to enact laws to persuade the public

Answer 25

police powers

Question 26

An illegal bar or liquor store during prohibition

Answer 26

Speakeasies

Question 27

1.people thought alcohol caused poverty
2. people thought alcohol caused an increase in crime
3. Children were suffering because there parents were drinking a lot
4. wives were suffering because there husbands were drinking a lot

Answer 27

reasons for adopting the 18th amendment

Question 28

1. It was getting to difficult to stop and many police officers wern’t enforcing it
2. Police officers were being bribed to let a criminal go
3. It was forced upon the country without taking the people into consideration
4. Many of the people who voted for the 18th amendment weren’t following the rule either.

Answer 28

Problems with prohibition and why the 18th amendment was repealed.