Roaring Twenties Quiz

What did the flapper image of the 1920s represent for U.S. women?

• changing religious roles

• a challenge to traditional values

• greater political influence

• more educational opportunities

Which heading best completes this diagram?

• Prohibition

• Music

• Propaganda

• Fundamentalists

In the quotation above, Attorney General Palmer explained the reason for the—

• passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

• internment of Japanese Americans.

• Scopes Trial.

• Red Scare.

Which of the following is an appropriate title for the factors listed in the box above?

• Creation of the NAACP

• Effects of Jim Crow Laws

• Causes of the Great Migration

• Impact of the Harlem Renaissance

From 1919-1920, people in the United States were caught up in the Red Scare, which was a fear of—

• the government being taken over by business interests.

• the government being influenced by communists.

• the country being invaded by a foreign army.

• corporations being controlled by labor unions.

Authors Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are identified with

• the lost generation.

• romanticism.

• the classical era.

• naturalism.

The prohibition of alcoholic beverages, the Scopes Trial, and the passage of the National Origins Act all occurred during the 1920’s. These events are evidence that during this decade

• the reform spirit of the Progressive movement was as strong as ever

• relations between blacks and whites began to improve

• there was a conflict between old and new American ideals

• the country was more receptive to socialist ideas

The Tennessee trial of John T. Scopes in 1925 illustrated a conflict concerning

• free competition in the marketplace

• due process of law

• freedom of the press

• religious beliefs and scientific theories

The concern voiced in this quotation from the 1920’s was most probably caused by the rapid development of

• the railroad

• the automobile

• movies and movie theaters

• regular bus service between cities

A major reason for the emergence of a “consumer culture” in the 1920’s was that

• the Federal Government encouraged labor to unionize

• enforcement of antitrust laws resulted in higher prices

• minimum-wage laws expanded buying power

• advertising and installment payments encouraged buying