Roaring 20s Practice

The trial of John W. Scopes focused on which of the following controversial topics?

• Immigration

• Ku Klux Klan

• Prohibition

• Evolution

Which statement about Prohibition is accurate?

• Congress spent billions of dollars trying to enforce it.

• Rather than stopping people from drinking, alcohol consumption reached an all time high.

• Most Americans favored repealing or modifying it.

• All of the above

During the 1920s, the Red Scare, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and the rise of nativism were all signs of:

• The benefits of new technologies

• The start of the Great Depression

• A rising fear of foreigners

• The return of normalcy

A speakeasy was a place where:

• immigrants received support such as English instruction and child care.

• people drank illegal liquor.

• political radicals met to discuss revolutionary plans.

• the Ku Klux Klan met.

A major effect of the Harlem Renaissance was that it:

• exposed corruption in New York City politics

• led to the end of the Great Migration

• increased awareness of African American culture

• inspired the Progressive movement

Langston Hughes is most associated with:

• poetry about being black in America.

• sculptures about being black in America.

• paintings about being black in America.

• None of these.

During the 1920s, the Scopes trial and the dispute over Prohibition showed the clash between:

• rich people and poor people

• fundamentalism and modernism

• business owners and labor unions

• the national government and state governments

During the Harlem Renaissance, Jamaican Marcus Garvey advocated for African Americans to:

• move back to Africa.

• embrace white culture.

• adopt the methods of W.E.B. DuBois.

• protest outside the White House for equal rights.

The “flapper” style that emerged among women in the 1920s, characterized by short skirts and bobbed hair, demonstrated:

• an emphasis on formal behavior.

• women pushing cultural boundaries.

• the effects of the Great Depression.

• the popularity of European lifestyles.

A sense of moral loss or aimlessness that characterized post-war youth & literary figures like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway during the 1920s led to them being labeled:

• The Harlem Renaissance

• The Post War Hawks

• The Lost Generation

• The Moral Guideposts