APUSH - The Roaring Twenties

______ wrote The Great Gatsby which symbolizes the 1920's spirit of money, jazz, speakeasies and post-WWI degenerate fun.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Sinclair Lewis
• Ernest Hemingway
• William Faulkner

What caused the stock market to crash in 1929 which ended the The Roaring Twenties and kicked off the Great Depression?

• Buying stocks on margin
• The farm crisis
• too much credit and easy money in the 1920's
• all of these

The Emergency Quota Act and National Origins Act were designed to ________.

• limit the flow of communist ideas into America
• exclude Asians from immigrating
• limit immigration to white, almost English speaking immigrats
• all of these

_______ illustrate the anti-immigration feelings of the 1920's because they were executed for a robbery on very, very thin evidence.

• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Laurel and Hardy
• Rogers and Hammerstein
• The Howard Brothers

_______ fell into economic crisis early in the 1920's due to less demand and lower prices for food after World War I.  Banks were ultimately hurt after this group failed to re-pay loans taken during the Great War to expand production.

• Farmers
• Steel Workers
• Oil Producers
• Airplane manufacturers

What was a bootlegger?

• Criminals who brought clothing made in other countries into the U.S.
• Criminals who brought guns made in other countries into the U.S.
• Criminal who sold alcohol in the United States to make a profit
• Criminals who immigrated to the U.S. 

The ________Trial symbolizes the desire by some to return to religious fundamentalism in the 1920's as the speakeasies, flappers, jazz music, and easy money seemed to defy morality and religion.

• Scopes Monkey
• O.J. Simpson
• Evolution
• all of these

________ was THE superstar of the 1920's by flying an airplane solo across the Atlantic Ocean in about 33 hours.

• Charles Lindbergh
• Eddie Rickenbacker
• Manfred von Richtofen
• Neil Armstrong

______ revolutionized the auto industry by lowering prices and raising wages so that almost all families could afford a car by the 1920's

• Henry Ford
• Louis Chevrolet
• Ransom Olds
• John Francis Dodge

Which of the following was the most popular and trendy music of the 1920s?

• Jazz
• Blues
• Country
• all of these