Roaring 20s & Great Depression (Reichardt)

Which 1920's president successfully campaigned by promising "A Return to Normalcy"?

• Harding

• Coolidge

• Hoover

• FDR

TRUE or FALSE: The 1920s became known as the Roaring Twenties because of the thousands of new automobiles filling the streets with their loud, banging engines

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of these resulted from the prohibition of alcohol during the 1920s?

• decline in immigration

• growing fear of Communism

• a booming stock market

• rise of organized crime

What did Coolidge declare is the "business" of America?

• sports

• politics

• business

• alcohol

At its heart, the Scopes Trial was a clash between

• pro-immigration & anti-immigration

• religion & science

• jazz music & rock music

• racial tolerance & racism

This was a movement in which large numbers of African-Americans began leaving the South to take jobs in northern factories

• Red Scare

• Harlem Renaissance

• Speakeasies

• Great Migration

Which is NOT true of the KKK in the 1920s?

• its membership dramatically increased

• it spread beyond the South

• it was the main target in the Palmer Raids

• it expanded its base of hatred to include Catholics & Jews

American foreign policy in the 1920s is generally described as being this

• imperialistic

• isolationist

• laissez-faire

• reckless

Young woman who behaved in nontraditional ways during the 1920s

• harlots

• flappers

• non-conformists

• communists

Which mass media medium most helped make baseball the national pastime in the 1920s?

• movies

• internet

• newspapers

• radio