As Attorney General of the US, this man led the Justice Department's assault on political radicals.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
100
The term for those individuals and groups that delivered illegal alcohol to consumers during the days of Prohibition.
What is bootleggers?
100
This religious issue was at the heart of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
What is creationism?
100
This Greenwich Village radical tried to convince newspaper editors in the US to print stories opposing US involvement in WWI.
Who is Randolph Bourne?
100
This type of work stoppage or strike seeks to involve workers from occupations far removed from the original strikers in an effort to shut down the economy of a city or region.
What is a General Strike?
200
This man was regarded as the "hero" of the Boston Police Strike. He later became Vice-President and then President of the US.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
200
The Chicago Mafia boss who made an enormous amount of money selling illegal booze.
Who is Al Capone?
200
Before World War I, both the Ku Klux Klan and Marcus Garvey advocated this idea for African-Americans.
What is Black Separatism?
200
Most historians today accept that Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927 because they fit in to these categories of human beings.
What are immigrants and anarchists?
200
The quote "There is no right to strike against public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime," played an important role in how the public viewed this 1919 labor strike.
What is the Boston Police Strike?
300
This man became the head of the Justice Department's General Intelligence Division, which later became the FBI, and he helped to execute the Palmer Raids.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
300
This huge current American spectator sport was born during the days of Prohibition from the fast cars and customized trucks that delivered illegal "moonshine."
What is NASCAR?
300
This is the point of view that holds that the only information that is true is that information that can be proven scientifically.
What is Agnosticism?
300
This man was a Milwaukee Socialist who was elected to Congress twice but was prevented from taking his seat in the House because of his political views.
Who is Victor Berger?
300
This was the one single demand made by striking steelworkers in 1919.
What is one day off per week?
400
This man became the "hero" of the Seattle General Strike for calling in the military to provide city services.
Who is Ole Hanson?
400
This group was the single biggest beneficiary from the Prohibition era.
Who is the "Mafia"?
400
The National Origins Act banned immigration by people from this continent.
What is Asia?
400
This flamboyant black immigrant from Jamaica was deported in 1927 for conviction in a mail fraud case.
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Who is Marcus Garvey?
400
Of the four great labor strikes of 1919, this one involved the largest number of workers.
What is the Coal Strike?
500
This US President followed Woodrow Wilson in office and then died suddenly on a train trip in the American Northwest.
Who is Warren harding?
500
Before Prohibition, most Americans held firmly to the view that members of this demographic group did not belong in businesses where alcohol could be purchased and consumed. The secret "speakeasies" changed that dramatically.
Who are women?
500
This immigration law passed by Congress in 1924 used census data that was 34 years old because that data showed more migration from Northern and Western Europe than did the three censuses taken after 1890.
What is the National Origins Act?
500
This African-American socialist leader had a decades long activist career and argued that racism was a result of the misguided nature of capitalism.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
500
In an effort to discredit the labor movement and the "radicals" in it, the press continually linked them to this foreign radical group.