1920s Quiz

After World War 1, the number of strikes increased. Many Americans were distrusting of labor unions because they associated labor unions with _____.

• Increased prices for consumer goods

• Radicalism (Anarchy and Communism)

• The federal government using injunctions to stop strikes.

• A desire to replace native-born American workers with foreign workers

This technological advancements helped to create a mass culture in the United States.

• Television

• Phone

• Catalogs

• Radio

American writers; reached adulthood during or after World War 1; disillusioned with life in America

• Muckrakers

• Impressionists

• Gothic

• Lost Generation

The radio caused regions of the United States to become fractured and divided by developing a mass culture

• true

• false

Member of the Harlem Renaissance; African American writer; celebrated his culture

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Langston Hughes

• H.L. Mencken

• Hemingway

Select the reaction to increased fear of communism in the United States

• Immigration into the United States required a literacy test

• Immigration into the United States was decreased by a rigid quota system

• There was a decrease in nativism

• Labor unions became more welcoming of immigrants

The desired "return to normalcy" after World War 1 meant that the United States:

• Embraced its role as a global leader

• Joined the League of Nations in order to encourage collective security

• Became less involved in global affairs

• Developed a more open immigration policy

Which of the following was NOT true about the flappers of the 1920s?

• They received the same pay as men for the same type of work.

• They were young and independent women.

• They wore more makeup than older women.

• They often smoked and drank in public.

When African Americans came to the North, they did not face any racism.

• True

• False

 era of special creativity among African American writers, artists and musicians in a New York City neighborhood in the 1920s

• bootlegging

• Prohibition

• Harlem Renaissance

• traditionalists