Roaring 20's Quiz

The period of time when African Americans moved from rural south and urban north is known as the ___________________.

• Great Movement

• Great Migration

• Economic Boom Period

• Harlem Renaissance

The "Roaring Twenties" was not a good time for all Americans. For example, _____________________ were not able to afford the new advances in technology that improved standard of living because the boll weevil was destroying their profits.

• immigratns

• factory workers

• sharecroppers

• African Americans

In the 1920's, African Americans still faced discrimination in the south because of __________________.

• lynchings and slavery

• Jim Crow Laws and lynchings

• suggrage and lynchings

• slavery and Prohibition

_____________________ outlawed the production and distribution of alcohol.

• prohibitioin

• suffrage

• Jim Crow Laws

• the Treaty of Versailles

What happened as a result of the women's suffrage movement?

• Congress passed the 18th amendment

• women were no longer allowed to do certain jobs in factories or on farms

• Congress passed the 19th amendment

• women were allowed to enter the military as soldiers

Which answer most closely represents what African Americans found in the north during the Great Migration?

• no jobs but social equality

• better job opportunities but continued discrimination and segregation

• worse conditions than they faced in the south

• many jobs and much fairer treatment

The main purpose of the women's suffrage movement was to get ___________________________.

• voting rights for women

• women electred to Congress

• people to take inventions by women seriously

• women the right to work on farms

The period of time when African Americans in urban areas had the opportunity to allow their culture to flourish is known as the ______________________.

• Harlem Reconstruction

• Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem Recovery

• Harlem Revolt

Women had their earliest success in winning voting rights in rural areas of the west because __________________.

• few immigrants lived in rural areas

• women received more equality in rural areas of the west

• few men lived in the rural areas of the west

• more African Americans lived in rural areas than urban areas

African Americans moved to urban areas in the north to improve their lives by working as ______________________.

• telephone operators

• police officers

• sharecroppers

• factory workers