The 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

What scandal during the 1920s led to public disappointments over revelations of corrupt government?

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Watergate Scandal

• Clinton Impeachment

• 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

Can you recall what the 18th amendment is

• Made it illegal to make or sell alcohol

• Gave women the right to vote

• Led to a decrease in crime

• Gave African Americans the right to vote

A “return to normalcy” after World War I meant….

• Increased US involvement in Europe

• No longer selling alcohol in the United States

• Going back to life as it had been before the war

• Limiting immigration

“Dreams”

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow

-Langston Hughes

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

• Flee from slavery

• Accept racial segregation

• Never give up hope and look to the future

• Deal with the Great Depression

Henry Ford produced a more affordable car primarily because his company….

• Paid workers lower wages than his competitors.

• Used foreign-made parts.

• Developed a faster and less expensive method of production called the assembly line.

• Offered a variety of options to buyers

The Great Migration of African Americans to the North during the 1920s was mainly the result of…

• Political corruption

• Nativism

• Racism and discrimination of African Americans in the South

• Success of military desegregation

What was one effect of the Harlem Renaissance?

• Prohibition ended for African Americans

• African-American cultural pride flourished in the cities

• The formation of multiracial corporations

• Unemployment

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The __________________________ ended prohibition and was passed in 1933.

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

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