US History Module 21 Lesson

Multiple Choice

America’s postwar boom in the 1920s resulted from

• the rapid pace of technological advances.

• the expansion of the automobile industry.

• a policy of dramatic tax cuts on corporate profits, personal

  incomes, and inheritances.

• all of the above.


Multiple Choice

What was the goal of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

• To prevent war

• To limit military buildup

• To force European nations to repay their war debts

• To end the use of protective tariffs

Multiple Choice

Who wrote, “There can be no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime”?

• Woodrow Wilson

• Mitchell Palmer

• Calvin Coolidge

• Warren G. Harding

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a consequence of Prohibition?

• Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act.

• Gangs in New York and Chicago developed criminal empires centered on illegal importation of alcohol.

• Speakeasies opened in cities across the nation.

• Flappers became a symbol of defiance to the law.

Multiple Choice

All of the following were characteristics of a “flapper” EXCEPT

• shorter hair styles

• skirts worn to the ankles

• drinking and smoking

• slang vocabulary

Multiple Choice

Which of the following women supported eugenics, contraception, and abortion as methods to limit the reproductive abilities of those she considered “unfit”?

• Margaret Sanger

• Alice Paul

• Zelda Fitzgerald

• Clara Bow


Multiple Choice

Which of the following accurately describes the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s?

• It favored immigration restriction as well as White supremacy.

• Its activities were limited to the South.

• It repudiated fundamentalist Protestantism.

• Many of its members were elected to Congress.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following accurately describe(s) the Harlem Renaissance?

I. It flourished during the 1920s.

II. It was centered among Blacks in the South.

III. It consisted of a period of dramatic Black intellectual and artistic creativity.

IV. It brought about significant gains in civil rights.

• I only

• I and III only

• II and III only

• I, III, and IV only

Multiple Choice

The preacher of “Pan-Africanism,” and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association was

• W.E.B. DuBois

• J. Edgar Hoover

• Marcus Garvey

• Langston Hughes

Multiple Choice

Which of the following celebrated trials best illustrates the cultural conflict between fundamentalism and modernism in the 1920s?

• The Leopold-Loeb trial

• The John T. Scopes trial

• The Sacco-Vanzetti trial d.

• The Albert B. Fall trial