1920's America Quiz

Speakeasies were:

• A place for public speaking

• Underground bars and taverns

• A distillery

• A jazz club for upper class citizens

Bootleggers are:

• Individuals who brewed alcohol during the prohibition
• Those who manufactured boots
• A person who smuggled in and sold alcoholic beverages into the U.S. during prohibition
• The term for immigrants used by nativists

The fear of communism taking over the US during the 1920's was called the

• Red Menace
• Bolshevik Revolution
• Red Scare
• Palmer Revolt

The two Italian immigrants who were executed for killing 2 men at a factory were named

• Galleani & Luigi
• Harding & Capone
• Sacco & Vanzetti
• Malone & Galleani

Who was the Chicago gangster that took over the bootlegging of alcohol in the 1920’s?

• Al Capone
• "Boss" Tweed
• Charles Lindbergh
• Duke Ellington

What Amendment made the production and sale of alcohol illegal from 1920-1933?

• The 15th
• The 18th
• The `19th
• The 21st

What production process was employed and perfected by Henry Ford at Ford Motor Company in 1913?

• Assembly Line
• Artisan Labor
• Order-based Production
• Custom Order

New music of the 1920s.

• Flappers
• Jazz
• Bull Market
• Modernism

Who name the first successful transatlantic flight?

• Charlie Chaplin

• Babe Ruth

• Charles Lindbergh

• Louis Armstrong

Who is often quoted as saying that “the business of America is business”?   

• Calvin Coolidge
• Warren G. Harding
• Woodrow Wilson
• Babe Ruth