1920s Culture, Economics, and Politics

Which event of the 1920s best reflects the conflict in American society between science and religion?

• Scopes trial
• Red Scare
• Quota Acts
• Sacco and Vanzetti

A young woman of the 1920s who wore heavy makeup, short skirts and had bobbed hair 

• flivver 
• dapper
• flapper
• dame

The Volstead Act forbid the making or selling of alcohol

• Bootlegging

• Prohibition

• Speakeasy

• Drys

What was the Red Scare 

• A time when people were afraid of anarchism, communism, and socialism
• When people were afraid of the color red
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• a red ghost

Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to be communists & anarchists.

• New Deal

• Red Summer

• Great Depression

• Palmer Raids

fear of communism

• Palmer Raids
• inflation
• reparations
• Red Scare

Organization that sought to keep the U.S. free from minorities, Jews and Catholics. “America for Americans”.

• KKK
• Red Scare
• Palmer Raids
• NAACP

This court case tore the country apart, two immigrants were accused of killing a security guard.

• Ford Trials
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Scopes Trial
• Palmer and Hoover

One way people tried to restrict immigration in the 1920s was by

• Allowing anyone to come to the US

• offering scholarships to immigrants

• setting quotas

• giving immigrants free land

Which of these is the BEST explanation for the declining percentage of foreign-born people in the United States between 1910 and 1940?

• declining U.S. birth rate
• improved economic conditions in Europe during the 1920s
• more restrictive immigrations policies in the United States
• post World War II conditions in both Europe and the United States