Ch. 21 Quiz-The Roaring 20s

What President had a corrupt-ridden administration at the start of the 1920s?

• Coolidge

• Roosevelt

• Wilson

• Harding

What trial pitted science versus religion in the 1920s?

• Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

• The Scopes Trial

• The Teapot Dome Trial

• The Garvey Trial

What activity saw radicals being rounded up all over America by government agents in the early 1920s?

• Palmer Raids

• Sedition Act

• Espionage Acts

• Coolidge Raids

What group got stereotyped as being "extremist or radical" in the 1920s?

• Immigrants

• Women

• Minorities

• Nativists

The Roaring Twenties were characterized by -

• internment camps, the rationing of goods, and the first use of the atomic bomb

• bank failures, the New Deal, and bread lines

• installment plans, Prohibition, and flappers

• brinksmanship, McCarthyism, and the policy of containment

Which phrase best completes the diagram?

• Prohibition

• Isolationism

• Red Scare

• National Suffrage

Which of the following was a major contribution of the Harlem Renaissance to U.S. culture?

• It led to the increased popularity of vaudeville stage performers

• It brought the most significant members of the beat generation together

• It was literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that sparked a new black cultural identity

• It focused attention on the anti-war literary genre

What was a major influence on the popularity of the flapper during the 1920s?

• A decline in the number of women working in urban factories

• A shift away from the traditional roles of women

• An increase in the use of credit and installment plans

• A decrease in crime associated with prohibition

Cartoons such as this one took the position that deportation was necessary because --

• assimilation programs in the United States had been unsuccessful

• economic decline had increased the competition for jobs

• communist were infiltrating the US

• political machines had too much power in urban areas

A type of music; it made African-American musicians popular in the 1920’s.

• Pop

• Country western

• Jazz

• Hip Hop