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What were the areas that held strong religious views in America known as?

What was the name for the Protestants who believed the Bible word?

What did 6 states, including Tennessee, ban the teaching of?

Who was the teacher who deliberately broke the law and taught evolution?

He was put on trial. What did this trial become known as?

Which leading Fundamentalist led the case for the prosecution?

Who was Scopes' lawyer?

Where did the trial take place?

The trial caught the country's imagination. The trial was less about the case and more about what?

Scopes was found guilty. How much was he fined?

How was Native Americans destroyed?

Where were Native American children sent?

How did the settlers treat the Native Americans?

In what year was the Meriam report made which said the boarding schools were underfunded?

What was passed in 1887 that gave the government the right to take away 86m acres of Native American land?

In what year were Native Americans granted US citizenship and given the right to vote?

What changed for Native Americans after this?

What percentage of America's Black population lived in the South in 1900?

What were the laws that segregated black people from whites known as?

What two facilities in particular were poorer for Blacks than Whites?

In theory, what should segregation have been for Blacks?

In certain states, what did black people have to pass in order to be able to vote?

Black people moved North to look for work and gain a better life from 1916-20. What was this period known as?

Where did Black people often end up living once they moved North?

Despite racism, in which states was there a growing Black middle class?

Which peaceful anti-racism organisation was founded by William Du Bois?

The Ku Klux Klan was originally founded to establish what?

It was re-established in 1915 by who?

Which film was released in 1915 that inspired the re-emergence of the KKK?

Who was allowed to join the Klan?

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

By 1925 how many members were there?

What was a symbol of their night time meetings, which was also used to intimidate?

What did many members wear and carry?

Who were the strongest supporters of the Klan?

Who were the high profile members?

What violent acts were the Klan associated with?

Support fell from 1925 after which Grand Dragon was found guilty of rape and mutilation of a woman on a train?

What did the Temperance Movement protest against?

Name the main anti-alcohol group in America leading up to Prohibition

Give five reasons 'the dries' wanted alcohol banned.

Which Amendment introduced Prohibition?

Which law put the Amendment into action in 1920?

Which State never enforced Prohibition?

What is the name given to the illegal homemade whiskey?

In New York by 1925 how many illegal bars were there?

Who was appointed the Prohibition Commissioner?

In 1920 the total number of drink related arrests was 20,443, how many was it in 1925?

Which city experienced the worst gangland violence associated with Prohibition?

Who did Al Capone inherit his criminal organisation from?

Name the suburb of Chicago taken over by Al Capone?

What was the date of the St. Valentine's Day massacre?

In this massacre, 7 members of whose gang were murdered?

Name the corrupt mayor of Chicago.

Between 1927-31 how many gangland murders went unpunished in Chicago?

Which gang leader did Capone have killed in his own flower shop?

What was Al Capone eventually sent to prison for?

What was Al Capone's estimated annual income?

Who was president from 1920-23?

He gave positions in government to his friends who were often dishonest and inefficient. What were they known as?

Why was the Attorney-General sacked?

Who was appointed by Harding as Alien Property Custodian in 1921 but convicted of defrauding the government in 1927?

In early 1900s, large oil reserves were discovered where?

It was decided that the land and oil reserves were to be set aside for who?

In 1921, the Secretary of the Interior secretly began to lease to two friends of his for large sums of money. What was his name?

What were the names of his two friends?

When it was revealed what was going on in 1922, how did President Harding respond?

Harding's health gave way and he died while on holiday in Alaska, when?

Fall was forced to resign after Doheny admitted he had 'lent' Fall how much?

In 1929, Fall was found guilty of accepting a bribe. What was his punishment?

The next president, Calvin Coolidge was seen as mean and respectable. What was his nickname?

WWI began in 1914 but when did America enter?

The British needed munitions to fight so paid America for them. How many Allied shells (bombs) were made in America?

With most of Europe fighting, they stopped producing goods so had to buy from America. Aside from munitions, what else did Europe buy from America?

How much did Allied governments borrow from America by 1918?

Through lending money to other countries and profiting from the interest, America became what?

Mass production made products more quickly and cheaply using what?

Henry Ford pioneered mass production when producing what car?

As a result of mass production, cars became cheaper in price, from $950 before the war to how much in 1925?

Mass production allowed more than one car a minute to be produced. In1920 there were 8 million cars. How many were there by 1930?

Name 4 other industries that the car had a positive impact on.

What percentage of families owned a radio by 1930?

In 1914 only 30% of factories had electricity. How many had electricity by 1929?

Electricity and mass production helped the development of new technologies. Name 4 new technologies that increased in demand.

With the economy booming, what happened to average wages?

Immigration from Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, Poland, Russia etc provided the economy with what?

Unemployment was always low during this period. It never rose above what percentage?

Advertising became a powerful way of increasing demand for goods. Where did adverts begin to appear?

Customers were encouraged to buy goods but pay for them in instalments over time. What was this known as?

Borrowing money from banks to pay for goods was known as what?

How did credit and hire purchase help the economy?

Buying goods through catalogues also increased demand. What was this known as?

Where did people buy and sell shares in companies?

What happened to the value of shares during the boom period?

One way people made money through shares was being paid part of the company's profits. What was this known as?

Another way of making money through shares was buying and then selling them at a profit once the price rose. What was this known as?

Buying shares using 'hire purchase' was known as what?

In 1926, 451 million shares were traded. How many were traded in 1927?

By the end of the 1920s, how many Americans were dealing in shares?

The government policy of allowing businesses and individuals freedom to be prosperous and dynamic was known as what?