Division and Equality Quiz
Connections Academy 8th Grade
Please only use this to check your answers.
1. According to Americans living in the cities, what was a sign of the communist revolution in the United States?
A. the rise of mass culture
B. labor strikes***
C. the deportation of anarchists
D. the Great Migration
2. Which of the following is the best example of the growing fear of communism and foreigners that America was experiencing in the 1920s?
A. labor unions losing supporters
B. the John Scopes trial
C. the Harlem Renaissance
D. the Sacco and Vanzetti trial***
3. Which one of the following would likely be the action of one who supports the 18th Amendment?
A. organizing and hosting a rally for the Women's Temperance Union***
B. setting up a system of distribution for bootlegged alcohol
C. appealing a Congress that women deserve the right to vote
D. leading a nonviolent protest in favor of African Americans gaining U.S. citizenship
4. What new opportunities were won by women with the passage of the 19th Amendment?
A. Women were elected governors by the votes of women.***
B. Women gained equal pay in factories.
C. Women were able to achieve higher levels of education.
D. Women were considered equal to men.
5. Which of the following is the best example of how Americans responded to disillusionment after World War I?
A. Fans flocked to baseball games.
B. American observers attended the League of Nations.
C. Writers moved to Europe as expatriates.***
D. Oakies moved to California as migrant workers.
6. Compare the experience of farmers, coal miners, and union laborers during the 1920s. What did many have in common?
A. economic prosperity
B. public disapproval
C. federal assiatance
D. financial hardship***
7. Which piece of legislation is the subject of this cartoon?
A. Indian Reorganization Act
B. Kellogg-Briand Pact
C. Equal Rights Amendment
D. Immigration Quota Act.***
8. Which of the following indicates a rise in racial tensions in the 1920s?
A. increased enlistment of African American men into the military
B. movement of many African Americans to the South
C. passage of several federal laws to end Jim Crow practices
D. membership growth of the Ku Klux Klan and N.A.A.C.P.***
9. Use what you know from your reading and explain how the Scopes Trial was a reflection of the 1920s cultural clashes and evidence of a changing society.
*Your own answer*