Quiz on the 1920s

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Digital History ID 3770
1. Prohibition drew its support primarily from

a. Catholics b. City-dwellers c. Native-born rural Protestants

2. The 1925 Scopes Trial dealt with

a. Two Italian anarchists accused of murder b. The teaching of evolution in public schools c. Two wealthy Chicago youths accused of committing a thrill killing of a child

3. The immigration laws of the 1920s were designed to reduce immigration from

a. Asia b. Mexico and Latin America c. Southern and Eastern Europe

4. The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s

a. was exclusively a Southern organization b. attacked Catholics, Jews, and divorcees as well as African Americans c. attracted fewer than half a million members and was strongly condemned by President Warren Harding

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