Roaring 20s

Whose philosophy, demonstrated by the quote and image, significantly changed American manufacturing?

• Marcus Garvey

• Henry Ford

• Charles Lindbergh

• Glenn Curtis

Which statement best demonstrates how changes in young women’s fashion reflected the changes to their role in society in the 1920s?

• Shorter hair and dresses allowed young women to more easily care for their homes and children as they rejected the trend to challenge traditional authority.

• Shorter hair and dresses reflected the need to conserve fabric and have practical hair for work in difficult environments due to economic hardship.

• Shorter hair and dresses reflected young women’s disapproval of the speakeasy and Jazz culture that spread through the cities during Prohibition.

• Shorter hair and dresses rejected traditional societal expectations as women gained increased political and economic independence.

Which cultural movement was most associated with the expansion of African American literature, economic independence, music, and art in New York City in the 1920s?

• The Great Migration

• The Harlem Renaissance

• Tin Pan Alley

• The Progressive Era

What amendment granted suffrage for women?

• 19th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

The movement of African Americans from the rural south to the industrialized cities to seek economic opportunities is called the -

• Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

• Civil Right Movement

• Gold Rush

What was the name given to the women who challenged traditional attitudes and social norms during the 1920s?

• Mobsters

• Party Girls

• Flappers

• Temperance

How did political scandals like the Teapot Dome scandal impact the United States?

• Distrust for the Government Grew

• People Trusted the Government more

• People protested the goverment

• The government became more trustful

What was a major factor leading to the erosion of regional cultural differences in the 1920s?

• development of television

• growing popularity of radio and motion pictures

• publication of novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis

• expansion of air travel after Charles Lindbergh’s flight

During the 1920s, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Palmer raids, and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrate that –

• cultural values were similar between urban and rural Americans

• popular support for international involvement was increasing

• nativist opinions were on the rise

• public support for limiting immigration was declining

Henry Ford’s contribution to the industrialization of the United States included both –

• The assembly line and a “middle-class” wage for his workers.

• Electric-powered vehicles and the interstate highway system.

• The first monopoly and new process for making steel.

• The world’s first automobile and the technology for paved roads.