Roaring 20's

What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?

• President Harding was corrupt and taking bribes.
• A scandal involving organized crime.
• A protest on high tax on tea.
• Secretary of Interior Albert Fall was taking bribes from oil executives.

The Air Age began in the 1920's because

• automobiles were to slow.
• former world war 1 pilots bought old military planes and found new uses for them.
• people saw planes in motion pictures.
• Famous people bought private jets for personal use.

What is an isolationist?

• A person who believes that the U.S. should help other nations.
• An anti- war protester.
• A participant in the league of nations.
• A person opposed to U.S. involvement in foreign afffairs.

How did women's role in America change in the 1920's?

• They stopped working and returned to their traditional roles.
• They had more options like going to college. 
• They lost the right to vote after the war ended.
• They had less freedom and fewer choices.

What was a flapper?

• A fashionable women who wanted fun and freedom.
• Conservative women who wanted the alcohol ban.
• A woman who fought for the women's right to vote.
• A fundamentalist.

What was Prohibition?

• A group who protested racial violence.
• A bootlegging operation run by gangsters.
• A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
• A law that prohibited organized crime.

Which of the following did Prohibition NOT lead to?

• bootlegging
• growth of organized crime
• increase the tax base due to the liquor tax.
• the increase in the sales of illegal alcohol.

What problems did African Americans face in the 1920's?

• Discrimination in housing and jobs.
• Threats of violence.
• lack of laws supporting their rights.
• all of the above

How did American popular culture spread?

• It increased as mobility increased due to more cars.
• people traveled more in planes.
• social media
• motion pictures and radio

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

• The name of a Chicago nightclub.
• The fight for civil rights and dignity.
• Another name for the lost generation.
• The increase in cultural activity in a area of New York City.