The Roaring 20s Unit 5 Quiz

Calvin Coolidge became president when

• He defeated Warren G. Harding

• Warren G. Harding died in office

• He defeated Teddy Roosevelt

• He was 34

Sacco and Vanzetti were

• immigrants & anarchists

• thieves & murderers

• immigrants & murderers

• thieves & lawyers

John Scopes was put on trial for

• leasing government land for private use

• leading the KKK

• teaching evolution in school

• robbing the local library

Henry Ford innovated the automotive industry by using

• robots

• the assembly line

• advertising

• constant improvements to mechanical reliability

President Harding's presidency was tarnished by a scandal involving some of his advisors taking bribes and leasing government property to oil companies. This scandal is known as the-

• Daugherty Scandal

• Fall Scandal

• Forbes Scandal

• Teapot Dome Scandal

The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees-

• women's right to vote

• African American citizenship

• children's rights

• African American voting rights

Many Americans feared the country was losing its traditional values and responded by joining a religious movement known as-

• Catholicism

• Fundamentalism

• Protestantism

• Quakerism

African American arts, literature, and music flourished in the 1920s and was known as-

• the Great Transformation

• the Great Awakening

• the South Side Renaissance

• the Harlem Renaissance

Newspapers, Radio, movies, and magazines are forms of-

• mass media

• bohemian life

• "new morality"

• fundamentalist movement

What year did the stock market crash, beginning the Great Depression?

• 1922

• 1931

• 1925

• 1929