Social Issues 1920s

The new liberated image of young women during the 1920s was called the:

• Speakeasy

• Flapper (New Women)

• Modern woman

• Bolshevik

The "Red Scare" of the 1920s had which of the following major effects on America?

• American workers increased strikes as working conditions declined

• Immigration was restricted through the National Origins Act

• African Americans were persecuted

• Americans migrated to cities

Red Summer was a direct negative effect of

• Immigration

• Prohibition

• The Russian Bolshevik (communist) Revolution

• The Great Migration

What was the basis of the Scopes Trial?

• Segregation vs. Equality

• Catholic vs. Protestant

• Evolution vs. Creation

• Prohibition

A negative backlash of prohibition was

• Immigration restrictions

• the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

• the outbreak of Red Summer

• Rise of organized crime, bootlegging,  and gangsters like Al Capone

Margaret Sanger shares the most in common which which other 1920's figure/group?

• Billy Sunday

• John Scopes

• Flappers

• William Jennings Bryan

The poem above can be linked as a contribution to which of the following developments of the 1920s

• The debate over religious fundamentalism vs. scientific modernism

• The Red Summer

• The Harlem Renaissance

• The Red Scare

Which of the following issues of the 1920s is the author attempting to expose?

• Racial segregation in America

• Nativist viewpoints towards outsiders

• Hostile views towards labor radicals

• Unsafe amusement park safety conditions

Which internal migration in the United States was most responsible for inspiring developments discussed in the poem?

• The growth of cities during the 1920s

• The expansion of a mass culture through the invention of the radio

• The Great Migration of African Americans to the North

• The movement of whites to newly developing suburbs

The 1920s event that most clearly exposed hostility towards foreign immigrants and radical labor activists was

• The Scopes Monkey Trial

• the Red Summer

• St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

• Sacco and Vanzetti Trial