Roaring 1920's US History

Roaring 1920's US History

by Tina Hall

Open Ended

Quickwrite: What do you know about the 1920's?

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After the video, please ​answer the following questions.

Multiple Choice

What was the new invention that brought information coming into peoples' homes?

• newspaper

• radio

Multiple Choice

to disband (troops, an army, etc.).

to discharge (a person) from military service.

no more need for war materials

• Demobilization

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Tax Cuts

• The Dawes Plan

Multiple Choice

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 1th

• 19th

• 18th

• 21st

Multiple Choice

His campaign slogan was for a ____________

To return to before WWI Foreign Policy and to focus on Domestic Policy (in USA) such as the economy

• Return to before he became President

• Return to before WW1

• “Return to Normalcy”

• "Return to fun"

Multiple Choice

Warren Harding’s Secretary of the Interior (Albert Fall) secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Fall received $300,000 in bribes. Calling this the _________.

• Wyoming Scandal

• Harding Scandal

• Albert Fall Scandal

• Teapot Dome Scandal

Multiple Choice

Many of his policies helped the US return to a period of prosperity.

He won the 1924 election for US President.

• Calvin Coolidge

• Warren Harding

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

Open Ended

In your opinion, explain why the tax cuts of the 1920s were good for the American People.

Multiple Choice

Most Americans wanted to be ________ and they believed that the US would prosper if they stayed out of European Affairs

• millionaires

• isolationist

• president

• astronaut

Multiple Choice

For the US to be completely isolationist they would have to ______ all goods needed within the country, ban all imports, and ban all exports.

• produce

• import

Multiple Choice

Germany was paying huge sums to the Allies as punishment for WWI under the War-Guilt Clause of the ___________.

• Treaty of WW1

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Germany

• Treaty of Europe

Multiple Choice

Germany’s economy was crumbling under the war reparation payments (this problem continues and led to the rise of _______ in WWII).

• Fidel Castro

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolph Hitler

• Mao Zedong

Multiple Choice

The United States decides to loan money to Germany with interest so that they will be able to pay the Allies war reparations from WWI, this plan was called the __________.

• Loan Plan

• Germany Plan

• Dawes Plan

• Hitler Plan

Poll

If you were in charge of a country would you have continued to build up your military power?

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

The Five-Power Naval Limitations Treaty was signed by Britain, France, Japan, Italy, and the US. The ratios were meant to make the other countries ______ while making the US and Britain’s Navies superior.

• strong

• weak

Multiple Choice

The _______ Pact did not live up to its aim of ending war or stopping the rise of militarism, and in this sense, it made no immediate contribution to international peace and proved to be ineffective in the years to come.

• Froot Loops-Briand

• Kellogg-Briand

Open Ended

Give an example of an assembly line.

Multiple Choice

More people were buying homes and cars, but largely on installment plans. What is an installment plan?

• paying a small amount over many months with an interest being paid on the money borrowed.

• pay in 2 months - no interest

Multiple Choice

_________ used the first assembly line in 1913 to build cars.

• George Washington

• Bill

  Gates

• Henry Ford

• Elon Musk

Open Ended

Evaluate the benefits of the assembly line.

Multiple Choice

In 1927 ______________ made the first solo transatlantic flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Tom Cruise

• Amelia Erhart

• Walter Reed

• Charles Lindbergh

Multiple Choice

Many purchased stocks on margin.

Buying on Margin is putting a small amount down and borrowing the rest from a _______.

• bank

• friend

• co-worker

• mom

Multiple Choice

_______ is the belief that one’s native land needs to be protected against immigrants.

• immigration

• Nativism

• soldiers

• German

Multiple Choice

The Eugenics Movement studied how to improve the human race through _____.

• dance

• genetics

Multiple Choice

_______ were people with extreme views like communists and anarchists.

• presidents

• Radicals

Multiple Choice

What happened to Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti (evidence was questionable) maybe because they were Italian immigrants and anarchist?

• sentenced to 10 years in jail

• executed in 1927

• sentenced to 20 years in jail

• set free

Multiple Choice

A series of bombs had gone off -

Mitchell Palmer had one left at his front door, he was the U.S. Attorney General

He began an investigation and arrested radicals and anarchists in the _______.

• Palmer Raids

• Palmer Retreat

Multiple Choice

The new _____ targeted African Americans, Catholics, Jews, Immigrants, and other groups they deemed “un-American”.

• MMM

• AAA

• KKK

• SSS

Multiple Choice

The Emergency Quota Act was signed by President Harding in 1921 to restrict the annual admission to the US for ethnic groups in response to fears of ________.

• Nationals

• radicals

Multiple Choice

TThe National Origins Act of 1924 made _______ restrictions from the Emergency Quota Act permanent.

• immigration

• jail

Multiple Choice

Fundamentalists were people who were concerned that the country was in ______ decline.

• moral

• money

• speculation

• economic

Multiple Choice

In 1925 Tennessee outlawed teaching ______ and denying creationism

A biology teacher named John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution, and was found guilty (later overturned).

• Immigration

• "Red Scare"

• evolution

• Speculation

Multiple Choice

The _____ Amendment(1919) made alcohol illegal to sell, transport, or distribute which was call Prohibition.

• 1st

• 2nd

• 18th

• 19th

Multiple Choice

The ________ put the US Treasury in charge of enforcing Prohibition – did not have enough money to enforce the 18th amendment.

• Ford-McCumber Act

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Emergency Quota Act

• Volstead Act

Multiple Choice

________ were secret illegal bars where people would go to get alcohol during prohibition.

• New Values

• Speakeasies

• Traditional Values

• Harlem Renaissance

Multiple Choice

Bootlegging is making alcohol _________

It became common in rural areas

Bootlegging helped organized crime to become big business.

• legal

• illegally

• for profit

• for bars

Multiple Choice

The 21st Amendment ______ the 18th amendment and made alcohol legal again in 1933.

• plus

• repealed

Multiple Choice

He was a WWI Veteran

He was also a member of the Lost Generation

He wrote The Great Gatsby and the Jazz Age.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Multiple Choice

Ernest Hemingway ~ He was a WWI Veteran

He was a member of the Lost Generation

He wrote a _________.

• Farewell to Arms

• A Land Remembered

Open Ended

What did you notice about the silent film?

Multiple Choice

People also spent their disposable income on attending sporting events

Baseball became popular during the 1920’s

______ was a famous player during the 1920’s from the New York Yankees.

• Willie Mays

• Babe Ruth

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Multiple Choice

Hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved North during the Great Migration. What were they looking for?

• jobs

• family

Multiple Choice

The __________ began in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City

Many African Americans migrated there during the Great Migration

They brought with them Gospel Music, which helped to give it national attention.

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

• Harlem Renaissance

Multiple Choice

When African American WWII Veterans returned home they set out to end ______ and increase toleration in the US.

• segregation

• demobilization

• Nativism

• Quota System

Multiple Choice

He was an educator, reformer and the most influential black leader of his time (1856-1915). Founder of Tuskegee Institute.

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

Talented Tenth, (1903), concept espoused by black educator and author W.E.B. Du Bois, emphasizing the necessity for higher education to develop the leadership capacity among the most able 10 percent of black Americans. He also launced the _______.

• NAACP

• BCC

• EFSC

• UCF

Multiple Choice

He believed that African Americans would never have justice in the US

He pushed for separation in the "Back to Africa Movement".

• Booker T. Washington

• Marcus Garvey

Open Ended

What do think of the "Back to Africa Movement"?

Multiple Choice

________ were forced to live in the Everglades of Florida. To make a living they currently have a park you can visit and see their traditional ways of life.

• women

• Asians

• Aftican Americans

• Seminole Indians

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Multiple Choice

The Rosewood Massacre was an attack on the predominantly African American town of Rosewood, Florida, in 1923 by large groups of white aggressors. The town was entirely ______ by the end of the violence, and the residents were driven out permanently.

• flooded

• destroyed

• revitilized

• cleaned

Open Ended

Name 3 things you learned about and explain them.

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