Roaring 20s Review

What is the name for the 1920s revival of African American music, dance, art, and literature based around a New York neighborhood?

• The Brooklyn Movement

• Hell’s Kitchen Revival

• Harlem Renaissance

• The Staten Island Awakening

What US president, the first of the 1920s, created the Ohio Gang by appointing his friends and family to key government positions. His presidency was plagued by numerous scandals and corruption, the most famous being the Teapot Dome Scandal?

• President Wilson

• President Harding

• President Coolidge

• President Hoover

What was Prohibition?    

• The outlawing of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the US between 1920 and 1933.

• The law limiting the types of jobs Black people could take in the 1920s.

• The political movement in the 1920s that worked to prohibit women from voting.

• The law prohibiting U.S. presidents from serving more than two terms in office.

Growing consumerism, money spending, during the 1920s was fueled by the public buyin on mass all of the following new inventions except for what?

• Televisions

• Cars

• Refrigerators

• Radios

The major issue debated during the Scopes Trial was the teaching of -   

• Black history

• Women’s history

• Evolution

• Nativism

During the 1920s presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover all practiced the government policy of Laissez-Faire. What does Laissez-Faire mean?

• The Government Should Control The Means Of Production

• The Government Should Regulate The Economy

• The Government Should Refuse To Trade With Other Countries

• The Government Should Not Interfere With The Economy

Which of the following resulted in speakeasies?  

• Prohibition

• Women’s suffrage

• Immigration quotas

• The Red Scare

What belief during the 1920s advocated for selective breeding in order to create more “pure” humans and resulted in the outlawing of interracial marriage across the US, as well as the forced sterilization of Americans with mental & physical handicaps?

• Eugenics

• Isolationism

• Evolution

• Nativism

The 19th Amendment—  

• Gave Black men the right to vote.

• Gave women the right to vote.

• Made the two-party system the primary political system in the United States, which pushed Populist Party members to join the Democratic party.

• Legalized Asian immigration to the U.S., overturning the Chinese Exclusion Act.

What organization was revived during the 1920s over fears of immigrants and changing social norms, and would target non-whites, non-Protestants, and non-Americans?

• Nazi Party

• The Silver League

• The KKK

• The IWW