Roaring '20s

What innovation, embraced by Henry Ford, made the production of automobiles more efficient (cheaper, faster, better)?

• Bessemer Process

• Just-In-Time Technology

• Assembly Line

• Time-Study Analysis

During what event did many African Americans leave the south and move to the north in search of economic opportunities in industrialized cities?

• Great Migration

• Dust Bowl

• Rust Belt to Sun Belt Migration

• Social Darwinism

Why was Prohibition seen as a failure?

• Speakeasies were established to replace bars.

• It led to an increase in organized crime.

• Mobsters made it unsafe in the cities.

• All of the above

Flappers during the 1920s -

• confronted discrimination in employment and education

• challenged traditional attitudes and social norms.

• joined the Army and fought in combat

• refused to use their 19th Amendment rights

How did people embrace or become familiar with "mass culture"?

• factories
• movies and radios
• electricity

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 19th Amendment

Which of the following innovations contributed most to the development of popular culture, like the popularity of baseball, in the 1920s?

• Radio
• Airplanes
• Automobiles
• Plastic

The 18th amendment ____________________

• Banned the selling of clothing
• Banned the selling of food
• Banned the selling of alcohol
• Banned the selling of cigarettes

Period of economic prosperity after WWI?

• The Roaring 20s

• The Wild Years

• The Roaring 30s

• The Wild 40s

What is a "bootlegger"?

• A person who traded tobacco for alcohol products

• A person who made and sold liquor illegally

• A gangster like Al Capone

• A person who controlled the country's economy

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