Roaring 20s

What innovation, embraced by Henry Ford, made the production of automobiles more efficient (cheaper, faster, better)?

• Bessemer Process

• Just-In-Time Technology

• Assembly Line

• Time-Study Analysis

What is the name of the movement which promoted the growth of African-American culture and later influenced the civil rights movement?

• Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

• Back to Africa Movement

• Temperance Movement

What movement during the 1920s caused many Americans to fear immigrants because they thought they could be communists?

• Red Scare

• Americanization Movement

• Social Gospel Movement

• Social Darwinism

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

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CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Which words are related to the abolition of alcohol during the 1920s?

• Temperance

• Prohibition

• 18th Amendment

• All of the above

What belief system encouraged immigration quotas and the rise of the KKK during the 1920s?

• Social Gospel

• Civil Rights Movement

• Nativism

• NAACP

During what event did many African Americans leave the south and move to the north in search of economic opportunities in industrialized cities?

• Great Migration

• Dust Bowl

• Rust Belt to Sun Belt Migration

• Social Darwinism

What scandal during the 1920s led to public disappointments over revelations of corrupt government?

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Watergate Scandal

• Clinton Impeachment

• All of the above

Although the assembly line helped make production more efficient, what was one negative effect?

• It led to overproduction which resulted in laying off some workers.

• It led to a decrease in supply of goods.

• It caused Americans to do more of the work by hand.

• It led to the government placing tariffs on imported goods.

Why was Prohibition seen as a failure?

• Speakeasies were established to replace bars.

• It led to an increase in organized crime.

• Mobsters made it unsafe in the cities.

• All of the above

Why did the government carry out the Palmer Raids in the 1920s?

• They wanted to prevent workers from joining labor unions.

• They wanted to block civil rights advocates from staging public protests.

• They wanted to suppress the teaching of evolution in colleges.

• They wanted to stop the spread of communists ideas by radicals.