15-5 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
01. Which amendment brought prohibition?
18th
02. Why was prohibition a failure?
Impossible to enforce
03. Prohibition was successful for a short time among which group?
Poor
04. What name was given to bars that illegally served alcohol?
Speakeasies
05. Smuggling alcohol into the U.S. from other countries was called what?
Bootlegging
06. Name the most famous organized gang.
Al Capone Gang
07. Capone made a fortune in which city?
Chicago
08. What name was given to dances where the lights were turned low?
Moonlight Dances
09. Respectable dance halls required couples to always remain how far apart?
Six Inches
10. What was the name of the pamphlets produced by religious traditionalists to counter the changes in society?
The Fundamentals
11. The Fundamentals focused on what?
Bible
12. According to The Fundamentals, who inspired the Bible? What was unique about religious stories?
God/Literally True
13. The Fundamentals gave rise to which religious movement?
Fundamentalism
14. Many states, encouraged by the Fundamentalists, banned the teaching of which theory in schools?
Evolution
15. Who authored the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
16. When was Darwin’s theory of evolution first issued?
1859
17. According to Fundamentalists, Darwin’s theory of evolution countered which theory?
Creationism
18. Which group decided to launch an attack on antievolution laws?
ACLU/American Civil Liberties Union
19. Who accepted the ACLU’s offer to represent a teacher that challenged the antievolution laws?
John T. Scopes
20. Scopes was a young biology teacher where?
Dayton, Tennessee
21. Who was Scopes defense attorney?
Clarence Darrow
22. Who was the prosecuting attorney in the Scopes case?
William Jennings Bryan
23. What was Scopes’ penalty after he was convicted?
$100 Fine ($1,128 today)
24. Who overruled Scopes’ penalty by throwing out the fine?
Tennessee Supreme Court
25. The Tennessee Supreme Court threw out the fine because they didn’t want Scopes to appeal to whom?
U.S. Supreme Court
26. What does KKK stand for?
Ku Klux Klan
27. The KKK reached a membership peak of how many members in the Twenties?
3 to 5 Million
28. What were the sectional targets of the KKK?
South—African Americans
Southwest—Prohibition Violators
Northeast and West—Jews and Catholics
29. The KKK’s goal was to bring more Protestants to power and to halt what?
Moral Decline
30. The arrest of which Klan member brought a halt to the popularity of the KKK?
David Stephenson—Grand Dragon of Indiana
31. Stephenson was arrested for which crime?
2nd Degree Murder
32. Stephenson sold out the KKK by showing its political influence in which state?
Indiana
33. What was the name of the center of NYC’s discussion of liberal ideas?
Greenwich Village
34. Which event stopped the Greenwich Village artistic movement?
World War I
35. Who authored the poem “The Waste Land”?
T. S. Eliot
36. Who was the most famous novelist of the “Lost Generation”?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. Name the most famous work produced by Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby
38. Fitzgerald’s Gatsby focused on the shallow self-involvement and illusions of whom?
Rich
39. The Lost Generation attacked which reform movement?
Progressivism
40. The Lost Generation went into exile where?
Paris
41. The Lost Generation mainly attacked which two changes in American society?
Mass Culture/Success Ethic
42. Who was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928?
Al Smith
43. Which governmental position did Al Smith hold when he ran for the presidency in 1928?
New York Governor
44. What was Smith’s religious affiliation?
Roman Catholic
45. What were opponents of prohibition called? Supporters?
Wets/Dries
46. What was the name of New York’s political machine?
Tammany Hall
47. Al Smith became famous in New York for supporting which rights?
Workers’
48. Al Smith had the support of which political faction?
Progressives
49. Who was the Republican presidential candidate in 1928?
Herbert Hoover
50. Smith’s success where showed that not all people felt the prosperity of the era?
12 Largest Cities/Midwest (farmers)
18th
02. Why was prohibition a failure?
Impossible to enforce
03. Prohibition was successful for a short time among which group?
Poor
04. What name was given to bars that illegally served alcohol?
Speakeasies
05. Smuggling alcohol into the U.S. from other countries was called what?
Bootlegging
06. Name the most famous organized gang.
Al Capone Gang
07. Capone made a fortune in which city?
Chicago
08. What name was given to dances where the lights were turned low?
Moonlight Dances
09. Respectable dance halls required couples to always remain how far apart?
Six Inches
10. What was the name of the pamphlets produced by religious traditionalists to counter the changes in society?
The Fundamentals
11. The Fundamentals focused on what?
Bible
12. According to The Fundamentals, who inspired the Bible? What was unique about religious stories?
God/Literally True
13. The Fundamentals gave rise to which religious movement?
Fundamentalism
14. Many states, encouraged by the Fundamentalists, banned the teaching of which theory in schools?
Evolution
15. Who authored the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
16. When was Darwin’s theory of evolution first issued?
1859
17. According to Fundamentalists, Darwin’s theory of evolution countered which theory?
Creationism
18. Which group decided to launch an attack on antievolution laws?
ACLU/American Civil Liberties Union
19. Who accepted the ACLU’s offer to represent a teacher that challenged the antievolution laws?
John T. Scopes
20. Scopes was a young biology teacher where?
Dayton, Tennessee
21. Who was Scopes defense attorney?
Clarence Darrow
22. Who was the prosecuting attorney in the Scopes case?
William Jennings Bryan
23. What was Scopes’ penalty after he was convicted?
$100 Fine ($1,128 today)
24. Who overruled Scopes’ penalty by throwing out the fine?
Tennessee Supreme Court
25. The Tennessee Supreme Court threw out the fine because they didn’t want Scopes to appeal to whom?
U.S. Supreme Court
26. What does KKK stand for?
Ku Klux Klan
27. The KKK reached a membership peak of how many members in the Twenties?
3 to 5 Million
28. What were the sectional targets of the KKK?
South—African Americans
Southwest—Prohibition Violators
Northeast and West—Jews and Catholics
29. The KKK’s goal was to bring more Protestants to power and to halt what?
Moral Decline
30. The arrest of which Klan member brought a halt to the popularity of the KKK?
David Stephenson—Grand Dragon of Indiana
31. Stephenson was arrested for which crime?
2nd Degree Murder
32. Stephenson sold out the KKK by showing its political influence in which state?
Indiana
33. What was the name of the center of NYC’s discussion of liberal ideas?
Greenwich Village
34. Which event stopped the Greenwich Village artistic movement?
World War I
35. Who authored the poem “The Waste Land”?
T. S. Eliot
36. Who was the most famous novelist of the “Lost Generation”?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. Name the most famous work produced by Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby
38. Fitzgerald’s Gatsby focused on the shallow self-involvement and illusions of whom?
Rich
39. The Lost Generation attacked which reform movement?
Progressivism
40. The Lost Generation went into exile where?
Paris
41. The Lost Generation mainly attacked which two changes in American society?
Mass Culture/Success Ethic
42. Who was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928?
Al Smith
43. Which governmental position did Al Smith hold when he ran for the presidency in 1928?
New York Governor
44. What was Smith’s religious affiliation?
Roman Catholic
45. What were opponents of prohibition called? Supporters?
Wets/Dries
46. What was the name of New York’s political machine?
Tammany Hall
47. Al Smith became famous in New York for supporting which rights?
Workers’
48. Al Smith had the support of which political faction?
Progressives
49. Who was the Republican presidential candidate in 1928?
Herbert Hoover
50. Smith’s success where showed that not all people felt the prosperity of the era?
12 Largest Cities/Midwest (farmers)