us history chapter 4 section 6

Question 1

Modernism

Answer 1

artistic and literary movement sparked by a break with past conventions

Question 2

Fundamentalism

Answer 2

stressing of strict and literal adherence to a set of basic religious principles

Question 3

Scopes “Monkey” Trial

Answer 3

1926, trial for breaking a law that forbade teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution

Question 4

Clarence Darrow

Answer 4

lawyer best known for his defense of John Scopes in 1925

Question 5

Quota system

Answer 5

limited # of immigrants who could enter United States from specific countries

Question 6

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 6

organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic & religious groups

Question 7

Prohibition

Answer 7

forbidding of manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol by law

Question 8

18th Amendment

Answer 8

banning of alcohol in the United States through constitution

Question 9

Volstead Act

Answer 9

law enforcing the 18th Amendment

Question 10

Bootlegger

Answer 10

one who sells illegal alcohol

Question 11

Red Scare

Answer 11

fear that communists were working to destory the American way of life

Question 12

Palmer Raids

Answer 12

series of raids in early 1920s against suspected radicals and communists

Question 13

Sacco & Vanzetti

Answer 13

Italian immigrants convicted of murder and executed in 1927

Question 14

William Jenning Bryan

Answer 14

Political leader and prosecutor in the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, known for his populis views