The Roaring Twenties (The Jazz Age)

This Poem, written during the Harlem Renaissance, was most likely meant to encourage African Americans to

• Flee from slavery

• Look to the future

• Accept racial segregation

Much of the economic growth of the 1920s was created by

• rapid expansion of canal systems

• increased government aid to farmers

• sales of new consumer goods

Which title best is associated with these terms: Fads & Flappers, and the Harlem Renaissance

• Gilded Era

• Roaring Twenties

• Progressive Era

Which feature of the Harlem Renaissance best reflects the image of the Roaring Twenties?

• Demands for equal civil rights

• Calls to eliminate racial prejudice

• Expression through jazz and dance

The Quota system, established as part of the US immigration policy in the 1920s, was mainly designed to

• Limit the number of immigrants from certain countries

• Increase the total number of immigrantes

• Allow an equal number of immigrants from every county

What was one reason national Prohibition failed?

• Many Americans did not support the law

• The US Supreme Court declared Prohibition unconstitutional

• The federal government refused to enforce Prohibition laws

"There were, Attorney General Palmer asserted, 60,000 communists at large - enough, if unchecked, to bring the republic down." This quotation expresses the fears that led to

• Prohibition

• The Teapot Dome Scandal

• The Red Scare

The Sacco and Vanzetti trial and the actions taken by the Ku Klux Klan showed that

• A strong fear of foreigners existed in the US

• There was less discrimination against black Americans in the North than in the South

• Americans still blamed Germany for the war

The information in the graph primarily reflects the influence of

• Increased foreign imports

• Mass-Production techniques

• Public transportation systems

Which statement best defines capitalism?

• Private ownership of the means of production

• Government ownership of the means of production