The 1920s

Who was the biggest crime boss of the 1920's, based out of Chicago?

• Bugs Moran
• Al Capone
• Johnny Torrio
• Big Jim Colisemo

An illegal bar set up to sell alcohol during the 1920's was called a

• jazz club
• speakeasy
• dance hall
• flag waver

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Making & selling alcohol in violation of Prohibition laws was called

• racing the drag
• rotgut 
• dropsy time
• bootlegging

_______ illustrate the anti-immigration feelings of the 1920's because they were executed for a robbery on very, very thin evidence.

• Sacco and Vanzetti

• Laurel and Hardy

• Rogers and Hammerstein

• The Howard Brothers

The fear of a communist takeover of the US during the 1920's became known as the

• Bad Times

• Red Scare

• Bolshevik Doom

• Communist Wave

U.S. Attorney General who tried to capture & deport as many communists as possible during 1919 & 1920 was

• Warren G. Harding

• John D. Rockefeller

• Vladimir Lenin

• A. Mitchell Palmer

The Red Scare led to which of the following?

• The ratification of the 19th amendment
• a demand for limits on immigration
• the start of the Great Depression
• the repeal of the 18th amendment 

Which amendment started Prohibition?

• 18th
• 19th
• 20th
• 21st

Who was Louis Armstrong?

• The first man on the moon
• A singer and trumpeter who helped to make jazz popular in the 1920s
• He invented the TV
• He was known for his oil company

 In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight from New York City to Paris, what was the name of his plane?

• Lucky Lindbergh
• Enola Gay
• Spirit of St. Louis
• Boxcar