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The 1920's

Authored by Heather Deusenbery

Social Studies, History

8th - 11th Grade

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The 1920's
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The decade of the 1920's which got this nickname because of the times prosperity and excitement, yet there were many economic issues lurking behind the scenes just waiting for the perfect moment to upend the U.S. economy.

The Critical Period

The Era of Good Feelings

The Roaring Twenties

The Great Depression

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

African Americans moved to Northern cities because of job opportunities in factories producing war goods and better social conditions.

The Exodusters

Harlem Renaissance

Great Migration

NAACP

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Americans would purchase consumer products (washing machines, vacuums, radios, etc.) and make partial payments on set intervals. Often these installment plans led to a lot of debt (i.e. early form of credit cards).

consumer spending

buying on margin

debt spending

buying on credit

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.

Harlem Renaissance

Charleston Renaissance

Atlanta Renaissance

Chicago Renaissance

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A subculture of young women in the 1920's who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.'

victorians

bobs

flappers

friends

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The time period in which the manufacture and sale of liquor was illegal according to the United States Constitution. It didn't work!

Reconstruction

Prohibition

Civil War

Suffrage

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A widespread fear of far-left extremism, including but not limited to Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution and anarchist bombings.

First Red Scare

Second Red Scare

Third Red Scare

Fourth Red Scare

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