Chapter 25

Question 1

Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of murder primarily because they were…

Answer 1

Immigrants, involved with anarchists groups and of Italian heritage

Question 2

During the 1920s the klu klux klan adopted what slogan?

Answer 2

100% American

Question 3

Marcus Garvey

Answer 3

Leading spokesmen for negro nationalism, wanted African Americans to liberate them from the white culture and create their own businesses/ cultural centers. Eventually went to prison for fraud.

Question 4

African American literary and artistic movement, an effort to cultivate racial equality

Answer 4

Harlem Renaissance

Question 5

The Volstead Act (1919)

Answer 5

Outlined the actual rules and regulations triggered by the 18th amendment. However the amount of loopholes in this guarantee failure.

Question 6

“Scarface” Al Capone

Answer 6

Leading bootlegger and organized crime lord. Eliot Ness determined to catch him, eventually went to prison for 11 years for tax evasion

Question 7

The Great Migration

Answer 7

Rapidly expanding war industries and restrictions on immigration created a labor shortage which caused the African Americans to migrate up north

Question 8

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Answer 8

Came from the Niagara Movement, founded by white progressives and black activists. They believed that social reform began with education.

Question 9

Modernist

Answer 9

Notions of reality were called into question with new scientific discoveries and new artistic ideas. Asserted the sovereignty of art over other elements of society

Question 10

The Ku Klux Klan regarded…

Answer 10

Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and African Americans as threats

Question 11

Nativism

Answer 11

Caused by race riots and the fear of communism