ACADEC 2025 Social Science Test 1

Which phrase meant only a few people in the US had wealth or money?

• Stealing/theft

• Demobilization

• Uneven distribution of wealth

• Paying up front

People who illegally made & sold liquor in the US during Prohibition were known as

• criminals
• smugglers
• bootleggers
• mobsters

Bars that sold illegal alcohol during the 1920's were called

• bootlegging establishments
• speakeasies
• vamps
• flappers

The immigration laws of the 1920s

• prevented illegal immigration

• encouraged immigration of skilled workers

• reduced the number of immigrants from certain contries

• allowed immigrants to enter if they were wealthy

The Red Scare was mainly a result of

• the communist revolution in Russia

• the prohibition act

• the women's suffrage movement

• the Harlem Renaissance

Someone who is against all government would believe in

• communism

• anarchy

• open immigration laws

• prohibition

The rise of the KKK and the National Origins Act of the 1920s showed that Americans

• welcomed all immigrants

• supported the temperance movement

• feared foreigners and communist ideas

• wanted to pass the women's suffrage laws

Goods such as the radio, refrigerator and other appliances caused

• economic growth in the 1920s

• the stock market to crash

• prohibition to be repealed

• gangsters to rise to power

A flapper could be described as

• a women that supported prohibition

• the people involved in the Harlem Renaissance

• members of the KKK

• women that challenged traditional roles and ideas

Women gained the right to vote with the _____ amendment

• 15th

• 18th

• 19th

• 21st