Chapter 20-The Roaring 1920s

What was the symbol of women in the 1920s?

• Free woman

• Housewife

• Working woman

In the 1920s, most African Americans moved to northern cities because they

• Better schools

• Jobs

• Less discrimination

What did the rise of mass media lead to?

• Decline in newspaper sales

• Decline in the automobile industry

• Development of national culture

The twenties are called the Jazz Age because

• Americans from almost every segment embraced jazz music

• Poetry and art were only about jazz

• People only went to jazz dance halls

Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen were leaders of

• The labor movement

• The Harlem Renaissance

• The prohibition movement

What does Renaissance mean?

• Old

• Middle Ages

• Rebirth

What was the main result of the alcohol ban?

• Crime organizations became wealthy through alcohol sales

• Crime rates dropped in most cities

• Alcohol sales increased in rural areas

The central issue in the Scopes Trial was:

• Should Jim Crow laws be declared illegal

• Should the theory of evolution be taught in public schools

• Should unions be allowed to strike

Who was the pilot that flew across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 and became a hero?

• Marcus Garvey

• Warren G. Harding

• Charles Lindbergh

Illegal alcohol production during the prohibition era in the 1920s

• speakeasies

• fundamentalism

• bootlegging