Prohibition
What was prohibition?
The federal prohibition of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol within the United States
What is the name of the immigration checkpoint in New York?
Ellis Island
What was the Great Migration?
What is the definition of a Race Riot?
A public outbreak of violence between two racial groups in a community - whites fight blacks for reasons that are somewhat random
Was the birth rate increasing or decreasing at the beginning of the 1920s?
Decreasing
What was bootlegging?
Illegally producing, transporting, and selling alcoholic beverages
What is the name of the immigration checkpoint in San Francisco?
Angel Island
What was a PULL factor for the African Americans to move to the urban north?
Desire for factory jobs
What is the Red Summer?
A summer of racial violence with anti-black riots breaking out in more than 30 American cities
What does KKK stand for?
Ku Klux Klan
Who were the "Wets" and who were the "dries"?
Wets - those who were AGAINST prohibition
Dries - those who were FOR prohibition
What is the number of people that the National Origins Act allowed into the country?
164,000
What was a PUSH factor for African Americans moving to the urban north?
Jim Crow laws in the rural south
Which year did the Red Summer occur in?
1919
What was the name of the immigration act that was passed in 1917?
The Johnson-Reed Act
What amendment did people often link with the 18th amendment? (hint: women)
19th Amendment - giving women the right to vote
What were 2 ideologies that motivated ANTI-immigration policies?
(you have to get both correct in order to get all the points)
Eugenics
Nativism
What does the NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What sparked the Chicago Race Riot? What sparked the Tulsa Race Riot?
(must get both correct to get all the points)
Chicago Race Riot: a young black man drifted over the "white line" in Lake Michigan
Tulsa Race Riot: a young black man was accused of assaulting a woman on the elevator
Who made the first trans-Atlantic flight and where was he flying to?
(must get both parts of the answer correct to get all the points)
Charles Lindbergh
Flying from New York to Paris
What was the WCTU's slogan?
Agitate, educate, legislate
What were the names of the two people that were in the slides that had opposing views on immigration?
(250 for each)
(you have to get both correct in order to get all the points)
Madison Grant
Franz Boaz
What was the name of the artist who painted the paintings that we did in our art-examination?
Jacob Lawrence
What was the name of the man who was lynched in the Omaha Race Riot?
Will Brown
What does "Bronx Cheer" mean?
Spitting at someone