Unit 4: The Roaring 20s

This person helped increase interest in airplanes and air travel with their first flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Charles Lindbergh
• Langston Hughes
• Charles Chaplin
• Henry Ford

What was the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s?

•  A program of urban renewal among various ethnic groups begun in New York City
• A period of musical, artistic, and literary productivity among African Americans in New York City
• The integration of African Americans into colleges and universities throughout the nation
• A set of political reforms and social programs supported by African American politicians in New York City

The policy of protecting interests of native-born citizens over those of immigrants is called?

• Fundamentalism
• Nativism
• Protestantism
• Modernism

During the Red Scare, Americans often associated __________ with radicalism.

• African-Americans
• criminals
• immigrants
• Progressives

This was a mass movement of African-Americans from the South to Northern urban cities in search for jobs and a better life.

• Harlem Renaissance
• Great Migration
• Fundamentalism
• Immigration

Which invention allowed news and entertainment to reach large audiences in a very short amount of time, creating a national culture?

• the newspaper
• the radio
• the television
• the mail

Law enforcement rounded up thousands of suspected communists in the

• Court Packing Plan
• Palmer Raids
• New Deal
• Transcontinental Railroad Crisis

President Harding's "return to normalcy" really meant a return to what?

• Gilded Age (pre-WWI) laissez-faire policies
• Expansionist (imperialist) policies
• Pre-Civil War policies
• Manifest Destiny

The most direct result of the 18^th Amendment (Prohibition) was: 

• People were mostly in support of the amendment.
• Organized crime in America increased
• Organized crime in America decreased
• People stopped drinking alchohol

Why were Sacco and Vanzetti convicted?

• They were serial killers, who targeted communists
• They were immigrants and had radical political beliefs
• They started a labor strike, that led to a riot, killing 6 people
• They lynched a group of African Americans without cause