Which one of these careers was a new opportunity for women in the 1920s in the USA?
Working in a department store
Nursing
Teaching
What did the 19th Amendment do?
It prohibited the manufacturing or sale of alcohol
It ended Prohibition
It gave the vote to women
Which of the following laws gave women more maternity rights and health care?
National Prohibition Act
Sheppard-Towner Act
National Origins Act
Which of the following groups was not instrumental in pushing the case for Prohibition?
National Negro Business League
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Anti-Saloon League
Which of the following was not a reason why Prohibition was introduced?
Campaigners wanted to end domestic violence and family neglect
Employers felt that an end to alcohol would improve the efficiency of workers
The selling of alcohol increased the wealth of gangsters
Which of the following were important Prohibition agents?
Al Capone and Johnny Torrio
Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith
Captain William McCoy and George Cassiday
What was bootlegging?
The illegal smuggling of alcohol across the border or coastline
The name for illegal bars
The name for home-made alcohol
What did the Jim Crow laws do?
Banned the Ku Klux Klan
Gave women the vote
Legalised segregation in the southern states of the USA
Which of the following organisations promoted a sense of pride in being African American and promoted links with Africa?
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
What was the Red Scare?
A series of raids on immigrants following the delivery of bombs to 36 important US officials
A fear of communism in the USA resulting in hostility towards immigrants from Eastern Europe and Italy
A scheme that restricted immigration from Eastern Europe and Italy