Roaring 20s

What U.S. President won the election of 1920 by promising a “return to normalcy,” but was involved in many scandals, such as a bribery scandal called Teapot Dome?

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What term describes the first time more Americans lived in cities than farms, which occurred in 1920?

• urbanization
• agriculturalization
• suburbanization
• ruralization

What was the nationwide ban on the sale and production of alcoholic beverages from 1920–1933?

• DeAlcoholization

• Prohibition
• Intoxication Proclamation
• Booze Embargo

What NY Yankees player during the Golden Age of Sports, known as “The Sultan of Swat” and “The Great Bambino”, was the most famous baseball player of the 1920s?

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What term was used to describe young women in the 1920s who went against social norms by wearing short skirts, short hair, and makeup?

• Flappers

• Dappers

• Hipsters

• Hippies

What President of the U.S. was elected in 1924, and is famous for the quote “the business of the American people is business”?

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Calvin Coolidge

What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women suffrage, the right to vote, in 1920?

• 14th

• 15th

• 18th

• 19th

The movement of about six million African Americans to Northern cities from the rural South is known as the

• Northern Relocation
• Urban Transition
• Southern Exodus
• Great Migration

The Harlem Renaissance was a period of African American achievements in (check all that apply)

• Music

• Visual Arts

• Writing

• Sports

What American gangster during the Prohibition era, known as Scarface, made millions of dollars from bootlegging until his arrest in 1931 for tax evasion?

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