Roaring 20's Test Review

A major factor helping to provide more consumer goods for Americans in the 1920's was the

• development of sophisticated robots.

• institution of large-scale assembly line production.

• tremendous increase in imports of automobiles from the U.S.S.R.

• use of computers to improve the speed of production.

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

--Langston Hughes

This poem, written during the Harlem Renaissance, was most likely meant to encourage African Americans to

• flee from slavery.

• accept racial segregation.

• look to the future.

• deal with the Great Depression.

Which of the following was NOT a cause of consumerism and the economic boom of the 1920’s?

• Increased advertising & the introduction of new goods

• The growth of the auto industry

• The creation of installment buying

• A lack of good jobs

The 18^th Amendment, sometimes called the “noble experiment”, did which of the following?

• restricted speculation in the stock market

• banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of liquor

• banned anarchists from immigrating to the United States

• established company unions to reduce the power of the labor movement

Which of the following BEST describes the flappers of the 1920’s?

• Women who cast off old rules and traditional thinking

• Women who believe in temperance

• Women who supported communist reforms

• Women who maintained traditional and old values of the past

What was one effect of the Harlem Renaissance?

• Prohibition ended for African Americans.

• The formation of multiracial corporations was encouraged.

• African American cultural pride flourished in the cities.

• Many African American veterans of World War I were unemployed.

What group benefited from the passage of the 19^th Amendment in 1920?

• temperance supporters

• women

• labor union organizers

• law enforcement officers

Fear of the cultural changes taking place in the 1920's led to

• the formation of the League of Women Voters.

• the development of the movie industry.

• the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

• the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan

The Roaring Twenties were characterized by

• a growth in consumerism.

• unchecked immigration.

• hard times for businessmen.

• the disappearance of racial prejudice.

Use the following quote and your knowledge of social studies to answer this question

“Americans are a home-loving people. When the day’s work is done and the evening meal is over, the natural desire is to remain at home; one goes out merely to seek entertainment, recreation, and education which could not otherwise be had. There, perhaps, lies the secret for enterprising “broadcasters” bring to the ear, every hour and every day, wholly without cost to the “listener-in”, a most amazing variety of entertainment and instruction…..”

--American Review of Reviews, January 1923

What is the new American pastime described in this passage?

• watching television

• playing Fortnite

• listening to the radio

• bicycling