Prohibition
What were the illegal drinking establishments known as during the Prohibition Era?
Speakeasies
What was the outcome of the Scopes Trial?
Scopes lost and the teaching of Evolution was banned in Tennessee
Numerical restrictions on the number of immigrants from a particular country were called what?
Quotas
What was the fear of communist takeover of the United States called?
The Red Scare
What was the popular name for the summer of 1919 which was marked by race riots?
The Red Summer
Which Amendment was responsible for banning Alcohol and initiating the Prohibition Era
The 18th Amendment
The trend to emphasize science and secular knowledge over religious belief was known as what?
Modernism
Explain Nativism
Nativism was an anti-immigrant movement which sought to restrict immigration to America
This is a person who does not believe in goverment
Anarchist
What was one unintended consequence of Prohibition?
1)Growth of Organized crime
2)More Drunk Driving Arrests
3)Growth in the Nation's Prison population
What were illegal manufacturers and smugglers of alcohol called during Prohibition?
Bootleggers
A movement which was based in a literal interpretation of the Bible was called what?
Fundamentalism
The false science that believed the human race could be improved by controlling who got to have children?
Eugenics
What country did Sacco and Venzetti immigrate from to America?
Italy
What was the New Negro?
The New Negro was what Black veterans of World War 1 were known as. They rejected white supremacy and demanded respect
In what year did Congress repeal Prohibition?
1933
Which side, Fundamentalist or Modernist, did Clarence Darrow represent in the Scopes Trial?
Modernist
What was the anti-immigrant hate group became very powerful in the 1920's through bribing officials and acts of violence?
The Ku Klux Klan
What were the police campaigns that arrested and deported many immigrants from Southern Europe who were accused of being radicals?
Palmer Raids
What was "Birth of a Nation"?
A racist anti-Black movie released in 1915 which celebrated the rise of the Ku Klux Klan
What was the name of the law Congress passed to enforce Prohibition?
The Volstead Act
Which of the following, Fundamentalism or Modernism, did urban Americans tend to follow in the 1920's?
Modernism
What was the impact of Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and The National Origins Act of 1924?
Both laws reduced immigration of the US
Sacco and Venzetti were executed in which state?
Massachusetts
What was a cause of the race riots in American cities in the Post World War 1 era?
1. Birth of a Nation
2. Unemployment and competition for jobs and housing between blacks and whites