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This Amendment states that the president will take office on January 20 and Congress on January 3.
20th Amendment
This Republican won the 1920 presidential election and promised a “return to normalcy” after World War I.
Warren G. Harding
The ACLU challenged government censorship through the courts.
True
The message sent from Germany to Mexico asking the Mexican government to attack the U.S. was (the)
Zimmerman Telegram
Which of these countries was not a member of the Allied Powers in World War I?
Ottoman Empire
The New Deal program employed young men to work on forest preservation, flood control, and improve national parks for $30 a month.
CCC
The Scopes Monkey Trial was a direct challenge to Christian fundamentalism and the Biblical creation story.
True
This organization questioned and fought the legality of a Tennessee law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.
ACLU
As a result of the 18th Amendment, women gained the right to vote in U.S.
False
The _______________was the major exodus of African-Americans to the North from 1910-1960s.
Great Migration
Under the Social Security Act of 1935,
older Americans received pensions.
The Lost Generation
consisted of artists who left the U.S. due to restrictions on their artistic expression.
This New Deal organization was composed of business leaders who would establish industry codes that sets standards in output, prices, and working conditions.
NRA
This 20th century African American leader, one of the founders of the NAACP, believed blacks should seek political rights and education instead of vocational training.
W. E. B. DuBois
The_____________ created a banking system in which the U.S. was granted power to print legal tender and establish 12 branches.
Federal Reserve Act
This Amendment ended Prohibition during the Great Depression.
21st Amendment
This Amendment, which called for the direct election of U.S. senators, was originally a provision of the Populists’ platform.
17th amendment
This country took sole responsibility for World War I and had to pay $33-$56 billion in reparations.
Germany
This Amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women universal suffrage in the United States
19th amendment
Woodrow Wilson’s post-war peace plan was called the
Fourteen Points
The assassination of this royal and his wife caused World War I.
Franz Ferdinand
This U.S. president attempted to alter the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court by adding a new justice for every justice over the age of 70.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Second Ku Klux Klan had the most power and influence in this Midwestern state.
Indiana
African Americans migrated to the North during the early part of the 20th century for better economic opportunities and to escape poor southern race relations.
True
This former 1896 Democratic presidential candidate represented the state of Tennessee in the Scopes Monkey Trial.
William Jennings Bryant
This Progressive president won the 1916 election with the campaign slogan, “He kept us out of war.”
Woodrow Wilson
The primary aim of the Second KKK was to
intimidate and use violence against immigrants, communists, and Catholics.
This Amendment prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol in the United States.
18th Amendment
Which of these countries joined the Central Powers in World War I?
Germany
Woodrow Wilson’s international peace organization was called the
League of Nations