The Roaring Twenties Quiz

What is the name of the influential black American leader who helped found the NAACP?

• W.E.B. DuBois
• Martin Luther King Jr.

• George Washington Carver

Who was the most notorious gangster of the 1920s?

• Annie Oakley

• Billy the Kid

• Al Capone

What is the name of the group of Americans who threatened and violently opposed black Americans, Jews, Catholics, immigrants, Communists, socialists, and Republicans?

• Greenbacks

• Ku Klux Klan

• Democrats

What is the name for the organization that gathered information about subversive activities in the country and was later known as the FBI?

• General Intelligence Division

• Internal Revenue Service

• The Hague

What is another name for Communist radicals?

• Home missionaries

• Sooners

• Reds

What is the Red Scare?

• Another name for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre

• The battle in the Wild West where Colonel Custer and his men died fighting the Sioux Indian tribe

• An event in which federal officers and local authorities simultaneously raided Communist headquarters and 33 cities and deported 500 people

What government agency was created in 1921 to build hospitals, begin vocational rehabilitation programs, and help disabled veterans?

• The Veterans' Bureau

• Bull Moose Party

• Salvation Army

Name the scandal in which Sec. of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall violated the law by secretly leasing oil reserves to private oil companies, personally profiting $300,000 in cash and bonds.

• Boxer Rebellion

• Black Friday

• Teapot Dome Scandal

Which president led America through most of the Roaring Twenties?

• Calvin Coolidge
• George Washington

• Theodore Roosevelt

What car was released after Ford had shut down all operations for 6 months to retool for production?

• Model A
• Chrysler New Yorker

• Land Rover Defender