1919 The Year That Changed America Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Martin W. Sandler
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 150 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

1919 The Year That Changed America Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Martin W. Sandler
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Strikes and More Strikes - Chapter 6: A Noble Experiment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event effectively put a temporary stop to any progress made by the labor movement in the years prior to 1919?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) The election of Woodrow Wilson.
(c) The rise of Communist Russia.
(d) World War I.

2. New technologies available in the 1920s allowed "a single still to create as many as" how many "gallons of whiskey a day" (162)?
(a) 130.
(b) 90.
(c) 240.
(d) 40.

3. Carrie Nation became known for carrying what sort of weapon as she went around destroying saloons?
(a) A whip.
(b) A machete.
(c) A hatchet.
(d) A pistol.

4. Which newspaper proclaimed in relation to the Red Scare that "Free speech has been carried to the point where it is an unrestrained menace" (101)?
(a) The Cincinnati Gazette.
(b) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
(c) The Los Angeles Times.
(d) The Salt Lake City Tribune.

5. Which objects were used to mark the beginning of Prohibition in the city of Boston, as described in Chapter 6: A Noble Experiment?
(a) Drums.
(b) Champagne glasses.
(c) Church bells.
(d) Tubas.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Great Migration refers to the period of mass movement of black people in America from what area of United States to the North?

2. What action did Calvin Coolidge, the Massachusetts governor, take when it appeared that at Boston Police Department strike was imminent?

3. What was the first name of Ogden, the man who was put in charge of determining criminal and civil liability for USIA after the Great Molasses Flood?

4. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been arrested?

5. Who held up a blank sheet of paper during the first event in his campaign to incite a second Red Scare?

(see the answer key)

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