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1
Q

Which amendment banned the manufacture sale and transportation of alcohol

A

18th amendment

2
Q

When did Prohibition take place?

A

January of 1920

3
Q

Which evangelist preached against the evils of drinking?

A

Billy Sunday

4
Q

Between what years did migration to the cities accelerate?

A

1922 through 1929

5
Q

How many people left their farms and towns each year to move the city?

A

2 million

6
Q

Which city with a population of 5.6 million people topped the list of big cities?

A

New York city

7
Q

Which city was an industrial powerhouse?

A

Chicago

8
Q

Where did support for Prohibition come from?

A

From the rural South and West, areas with large populations of native-born protestants

9
Q

Which act established a Prohibition Bureau in the Treasury Department in 1919?

A

Volstead act

10
Q

What were underground hidden saloons and nightclubs known as, where you could go and obtain liquor illegally?

A

Speakeasies

11
Q

What contributed to organized crime in nearly every major city?

A

Prohibition

12
Q

What Chicago city gangster had a bootlegging empire netting over 60 million a year?

A

Al Capone

13
Q

What amendment in 1933 repealed the 18th amendment?

A

21st amendment

14
Q

The Protestant movement grounded in a literal or nonsymbolic interpretation of the Bible was known as what?

A

Fundamentalism

15
Q

Who was one of the most powerful revivalist?

A

Billy Sunday

16
Q

Who used Hollywood showmanship to preach the word to homesick midwestern migrants and devoted followers of her radio broadcasts?

A

Aimee Semple McPherson

17
Q

What lawyer did the ACLU higher to defend Scopes?

A

Clarence Darrow

18
Q

Who served as the special prosecutor in the Scopes trial?

A

William Jennings Bryan

19
Q

During the 20s what ideal emerged for some women?

A

The flapper

20
Q

What is a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women?

A

Double standard

21
Q

Who had opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in 1960? Why did she found in 1921?

A

Margaret Sanger

American Birth Control League