The Roaring 20s Quiz

Charles Lindbergh was famous for being an.....

• aviator

• barber

• baker

• dancer

What is Laissez-Faire?

• In the 1920s, young women who cut their hair short, wore short skirts, drank and smoked in public; unconventional standards of behavior at the time.

• The policy that believed that the government should not interfere with the nation’s economy.

• A lazy politician.

• The promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of the radical views of communism or anarchism by a society or state.

What was a cause of the Red Scare?

• Air pollution in Russia.

• Calvin Coolidge's silence.

• Lots of immigrants were coming into America.

• Red paint spray on the White House.

What was a cause of the Red Scare?

• Communism took over Russia.

• Calvin Coolidge's silence.

• James Madison

• The new use of radios picked up an alien conversation!

John T. Scopes was...

• President of the United States during WWI.

• The judge in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

• The butler at the Lindbergh mansion at the time when the baby was abducted.

• A math and science teacher who was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution which went against religion in Tennessee.

What was a flapper?

• In the 1920s, young women who cut their hair short, wore short skirts, drank and smoked in public; unconventional standards of behavior at the time.

• The policy that believed that the government should not interfere with the nation’s economy.

• A lazy politician.

• The promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of the radical views of communism or anarchism by a society or state.

Bootleggers made their own alcohol to sell.

• True

• False

Speakeasies...

• were announcers on the radio.

• were people who still drank and broke the law by buying and selling alcohol

• were created as secret, public places where people could go to drink alcohol, in order to get around the limitations of Prohibition.

• were the name of local food stores during Prohibition.

During Prohibition, crime decreased.

• True

• False

Warren G. Harding called for a return to "normalcy." He wanted to go back to the way things were before WWI, practice isolationism, and have less government involvement in business.

• True

• False