CH. 10 ~ The Roaring 1920's ~ FL ~ SS.912.A.5.1 - 5.12

The graph below provides information about the percentage of unemployed workers from 1914 to 1929. What was the primary cause of changes to the unemployment rate in the United States in 1918 and 1919?

• The effects of demobilization

• The impact of "Red Scare"

• The passage of the Emergency Quota Act

• The Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War

What innovation in the automobile industry does this photo best illustrate?

• The assembly line

• The forty-hour week

• Customized production

• Strict worker safety rules

Why were more people able to own automobiles, radios, washing machines, and other goods in the 1920s?

• because of advertising

• because of lower taxes on imports

• because of installment buying

• because the trucking industry grew

Whose flight from New York to Paris, France, in 1927 persuaded people that air travel could be important?

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• Georgia O'Keeffe

• Charles Lindbergh

• Amelia Earhart

Which group did not benefit from the economic boom of the 1920s?

• factory workers

• truck drivers

• movie theater owners

• farmers

What change in the 1920s caused cities to expand outward?

• more automobiles

• more immigrants

• more skyscrapers

• taller skyscrapers

At whom was Prohibition aimed?

• immigrants who were communists

• people who drank alcoholic beverages

• soldiers returning home from war

• famous sports and movie stars

Which of the following had the greatest influence on entertainment and the arts during the 1920s?

• automobiles

• television

• newspapers

• radio

What form of music became popular in the 1920s?

• hip hop

• rock and roll

• country

• jazz

Which African American became a famous writer during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Langston Hughes

• Billie Holiday

• Duke Ellington

• Bessie Smith