The Roaring 20s Review

What is the name of the movement which promoted the growth of African-American culture and later influenced the civil rights movement?

• Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

• Back to Africa Movement

• Temperance Movement

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

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

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

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

The Harlem Renaissance was a movement of African American artists who

• Worked in the South

• Calling for segregation

• Urged African Americans to leave the country

• Exploring their heritage and encouraging African Americans to be prideful of black culture.

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