What organization was formed in 1909 by W.E.B DuBois for the purpose of gaining equality for African Americans?
NAACP
100
The Universal Negro Improvement Association was formed to
promote black pride and unity.
100
What man founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
Marcus Garvey
100
What do Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington have in common?
Famous musicians of the 1920s
200
Where did most immigrants to the United States come from in the 1920s?
Southern and Eastern Europe
200
The sale, manufacture, or distribution of illegal alcohol during the 1920s?
Bootlegging
200
One of the NAACP’s greatest political triumphs occurred in 1930 with the
defeat of a racist judge nominated for the Supreme Court.
200
After the Emergency Quota Act was passed, admission to the United States was based on immigrants’
ethnic identity and national origin.
200
The new morality of the 1920s glorified
personal freedom.
300
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were disillusioned in the 1920s and seemed to be searching for something, what did they represent?
The Lost Generation
300
What do Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton have in common?
Silent film stars of the 1920s
300
People who are opposed to all forms of government were called?
Anarchists.
300
Many people viewed Sacco and Vanzetti with suspicion because they were
Italian immigrants and anarchists.
300
What are radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at a broad, popular audience?
mass media
400
Who was the most famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance who urged African-Americans to voice their identity?
Langston Hughes.
400
False science that says that human inequalities are inherited by race. It boosted the theory that white Protestants from Northern Europe were superior.
Eugenics
400
The huge profits that could be made from illegally selling liquor led to
smuggling and organized crime.
400
The most famous baseball player of the 1920s, the “Sultan of Swat”, was the nickname for
Babe Ruth.
400
What do Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, and Jim Thorpe have in common?
Famous athletes of the 1920s
500
The Scopes Trial and the Harlem Renaissance took place in what decade?
1920s
500
John T. Scopes was put on trial for
teaching evolution.
500
The flowering or rebirth of African American arts in the 1920s became known as the
Harlem Renaissance.
500
An artistic or unconventional lifestyle is called?
Bohemian.
500
What religious movement is based on the premise that everything in the Bible is literally true, it rejects the teaching of Evolution in favor of Creationism?