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This famous baseball player hit

60 homeruns in one season in the

1920s.A. Charles Lindbergh

B. Barry BondsC. Babe Ruth

D. Lou Gehrig

These people dressed up in costumes and showed their hatred of African-

Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants by marching and burning

crosses.

A. HHH

B. KKK

C. CCC

D. TTT

Charles Lindbergh is famous because he was the first person to _________.

A. fly solo across the Pacific Ocean

B. fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

C. fly across the Pacific Ocean

D. fly across the Atlantic Ocean

This describes a group of African-American writers, artists, and musicians

who lived in a neighborhood in New York in the 1920s.

_Harlem Renaissance_

One of the most important reasons many African-Americans moved north in the Great Migration was ________.

A. art

B. jobs

C. weather

D. movies

A neighborhood in New York City where many African-American artists, writers, and musicians

lived.

A.Brooklyn

B.Queens

C.Harlem

D.the Bronx

The man in the picture below led a revolution in which country?

A.Poland

B.China

C.France

D.Russia

Russia and some other nations formed a larger, communist

nation named _______.

A.the Soviet Union

B.the Russian Federation

C.the European Union

D.Commuland

Americans wanted the United States to be _________ _____Europe after the

war.

A.united with

B.isolated from

C.allied with

D.fighting against

Few Asians and people from southern and eastern parts of Europe were allowed to

immigrate to the United States in the 1920s because ________.

A. of World War I and the fear of communism

B. they didn’t want to come

C. there were not enough jobs

D. housing was so poor

new inventions

for example: iPod, hybrid cars

A.prosperity

B.technological innovations

C.social unrest

D.turmoil

a lot of money

for example: Hong Kong is a city of _______.

A.turbulence

B.social tension

C.prosperity

D.migration

racism between groups of people

for example: how Germans felt toward Jews during WWII

A.racial intolerance

B.racial tolerance

C.movement

D.migration

A group of people working together

for example: the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

A.migration

B.turmoil

C.movement

D.social tension

“People began to buy new machines on _____. They only paid a small

part of the machine’s price.”

A.credit

B.interest

C.standard of living

D.isolation

In the 1920s, Americans listened to stories, music, sports, and news

on their ________.

A.telephones

B.cars

C.radios

D.televisions

In _____ the first movie with sound was made. It was

called a “_______.”

A.1919 . . . talkie

B.1927 . . . talkie

C.1921 . . . sounder

D.1929 . . . sounder

List an example of a new business that started or grew as a result of more Americans

owning cars.

The fear of communism was also known as _______.

A. the Big Scare

B. the Red Scare

C. the Blue Fear

D. Paranoia

What is communism?

The _____ Amendment was a change to the constitution that prohibited

the “manufacture, sale, or transportation” of alcoholic drinks.

A.10th

B.15th

C.18th

D.21st

A person who makes and sells alcohol illegally is a _________.

A.speakeasy

B.temperancer

C.bathtub ginner

D.bootlegger

One problem caused by prohibition was . . .

This word could be used to describe women who had bobbed hair, wore

short dresses, and danced to jazz music.

A.flippers

B.flappers

C.flingers

D.frangers

In the 1920s, Margaret Sanger was arrested for ____________

A.bootlegging

B.going to a speakeasy

C.distributing obscene materials

D.voting

This picture shows _______.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) made separate but equal facilities legal. Another word for what

you see in the picture above is _______

A. Racism Laws

B. Jim Crow Laws

C. Desegregation

D. Civil Rights

This is a picture taken during the ___________ of the 1950s and 1960s.

A.Harlem Renaissance

B.share-cropping

C. Civil Rights Movement

D. Rebirth

Langston Hughes wrote: “I am the darker brother./They send me to eat in the kitchen/When company comes,/But

I laugh,/And eat well,/And grow strong.”

This shows that

A. African-Americans were often ignored and treated poorly by whites, but that they were changing their approach to dealing with

racism and beginning to celebrate their culture and contributions to society

B. African-Americans did not own their own houses, but this didn’t bother them

C. Whites were becoming more accepting of blacks and were beginning to accept all of the contributions African-Americans had

made to making America a strong country

“We return.

We return from fighting.

We return fighting.”

What do these words of W.E.B. DuBois mean?

Make your wager

Use your vocabulary: In Homer vs. the 18th Amendment, Homer becomes a (1)_bootlegger_.

When he runs out of beer, he makes (2)_bathtub_ _gin___. Finally, we learn that the (3)_Prohibition_ law had been repealed. Homer

goes free.