APUSH 1920s

Which of the following is a characteristic of daily life in the 1920s? 

• Many Americans lost all of their money in the Stock Market crash.
• Many Americans did not have jobs and there were failed banks and businesses. 
• Many Americans experienced an economic boom, furthered by new technologies.
• All Americans experienced an economic boom, furthered by new technologies.

What did the Eighteenth Amendment state?

• This amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
• This amendment outlawed the advertisment of alcohol.
• This amendment changed the age a person had to be to buy alcohol.

What were illegal places where people drank alcohol called?

• speakeasies
• speaksoftly
• cellars 
• hidden spots

What did the Twenty-first Amendment do?

• It stopped speakeasies
• It ended Prohibition
• It arrested bootleggers

Who became the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927?

• Babe Ruth
• Charles Lindbergh
• Amelia Earhart

What name was given to the great achievements in art and learning by African Americans during the 1920s?

• The Roaring 20s
• The Best of Times
• Harlem Renaissance

What grew as a result of installment buying?

• Incomes
• Consumer Debt
• Government Debt
• Happiness

Margaret Sanger was known for

• Fighting for women in the work place.
• Promoting Prohibition.
• Pushing for Birth Control.
• Being a female bootlegger.

This was a major innovation found in most homes by the end of the 20s.

• Radio
• Television
• Telephone
• Microwave.

Henry Ford is credited with mastering 

• Modern day filming.
• Use of the Assembly Line.
• Flying aeroplanes.
• Radio Broadcasting.

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