The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression Quiz

What was another name for movies with sound?

• Talkies

• Dolby Digital

• Walkies

• Technicolor

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This female aviator set many flying records and inspired other brave, independent women to follow their dreams.

• Amelia Earhart

• Dorthea Lange

• Margaret Mitchell

• Bessie Coleman

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Who was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license?

• Bessie Coleman

• Margaret Mitchell

• Amelia Earhart

• Dorthea Lange

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Which person is considered one of the most popular jazz artists of the 1920s?

• Henry Ford

• Charles Lindbergh

• Louis Armstrong

• Babe Ruth

Who was the African American well known for his writing and poetry during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Louis Armstrong

• Langston Hughes

• Ernest Hemingway

• Charles Lindbergh

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This person played baseball for the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, and he held the Major League record for the most home runs until 1974. Who was this famous baseball player?

• Babe Ruth

• Langston Hughes

• Henry Ford

• Louis Armstrong

The American economy was stimulated in the late 1920s due to Henry Ford's mass production of ____________ using assembly lines.

• Washing machines

• Radios

• Vacuum cleaners

• Automobiles

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Charles Lindbergh was the first person to

• Go into space and orbit around the moon

• Fly a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean

• Bring jazz music to the United States

• Build a railroad across the United States

Who was the African American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics?

• Louis Armstrong

• George Washington Carver

• Jesse Owens

• Bessie Coleman

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Margaret Mitchell wrote a book in 1935 that became a best seller. It was made into a movie that won 8 Academy Awards in 1939. What was the name of this book?

• Gone with the Wind

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Biography of Abraham Lincoln

• The Poetry of Langston Hughes

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