05.10 QUIZZIZ: The Roaring 20's

The Harlem Renaissance refers to:

• a women's basketball team.

• a population increase in Harlem in the 1920s.

• a program to promote Latino culture.

• a celebration of African-American culture in literature and art.

John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of:

• biology.

• evolution.

• creationism.

• fundamentalism.

F. Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920s as the -

• Harlem Renaissance.

• Jazz Age.

• Prohibition Age.

• Roaring Twenties.

Charles Lindbergh was famous as a(n):

• politician.

• composer.

• inventor.

• pilot.

The NAACP did all of the following except -

• fight for legislation to protect African Americans.

• work with anti-lynching organizations.

• propose that African Americans move back to Africa.

• publish The Crisis.

The "Great Migration" of 1910-1920 refers to the movement of ___.

• immigrants from Europe to America

• people from rural areas and towns to large cities

• African Americans from the United States to Africa

• African Americans from the South to northern cities.

Jazz music was born in New Orleans and was spread to the North by such musicians as:

• Louis Armstrong.

• Zora Neale Hurston.

• Paul Robeson.

• Langston Hughes.

After Russia fell to Communism during WWI; _______________ swept across America.

• Dust bowl

• Support of communism

• Poverty

• Red Scare

All of the following were outcomes of the Red Scare EXCEPT:

• Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti

• Quota System

• Prohibition

• Increase in the memberships of hate groups such as the KKK

All of the following describe women in the 1920s except:

• Greater freedom of Travel

• Greater freedom of expression

• Equal pay

• More job opportunities