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WorksheetsRoaring Twenties Quiz
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 21mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which amendment ushered in the age of Prohibition?
a)
16
b)
17
c)
18
d)
19
2.
Prohibition, or the outlawing of alcohol, was enforced by which of the laws below?
a)
Jim Crow laws
b)
Volstead Act
c)
National Origins Act
d)
Butler Act
3.
Which amendment to the constitution repealed the 18th amendment and stopped prohibition?
a)
18
b)
19
c)
20
d)
21
4.
The climate of fear and suspicion that came about as immigration increased and many began to fear rising communism and anarchy.
a)
Red Scare
b)
Yellow Scare
c)
Blue Scare
d)
Green Scare
5.
Sensationalist trial that occurred in 1925 over the teaching of evolution in Tennessee.
a)
Hillsborough Monkey Trial
b)
Scopes Monkey Trial
c)
Darwin Monkey Trial
d)
Bryan Monkey Trial
6.
Form of music most associated with the Roaring Twenties.
a)
Jazz
b)
Swing
c)
Hip Hop
d)
Rock and Roll
7.
The center of music publishing in New York City.
a)
Lower East Side
b)
West Side
c)
Bronx
d)
Harlem
8.
Who became the most important and influential jazz musician of the 1920s and 1930s?
a)
Louis Armstrong
b)
Zora Neale Hurston
c)
Langston Hughes
d)
Marcus Garvey
9.
The movement of African-Americans from the South to the North in large numbers
a)
Immigration
b)
Migration
c)
The Great Migration
d)
The Great Immigration
10.
Who was the African-American poet most associated with the Harlem Renaissance?
a)
Langston Hughes
b)
Louis Armstrong
c)
Zora Neale Hurston
d)
Marcus Garvey
11.
Which technology most contributed to the development of a common cultural identity in the US during the early 1900s?
a)
Refrigerator
b)
Radio
c)
Toaster
d)
Band-aid
12.
Which amendment provided suffrage to women?
a)
17
b)
18
c)
19
d)
20
13.
Criminals who brought alcohol from other countries or made their own
a)
Legbooter
b)
Flapper
c)
Bootlegger
d)
Suffragette
14.
Illegal bars during Prohibition were called:
a)
Basement bars
b)
Talkies
c)
Password Pubs
d)
Speakeasies
15.
This baseball "hero" set a major league record of 60 home runs in a season and hit 714 home runs for his career. He was known as the "Sultan of Swat" and "The Great Bambino".
a)
Babe Ruth
b)
Jack Dempsey
c)
Bobby Jones
d)
Man O' War
16.
Who likely made this statement? “I wear bobbed hair and powder my nose. I wear fringed short skirts and bright-colored sweaters with low-heeled shoes. I adore smoking, drinking, and dancing.”
a)
A Victorian Woman
b)
A Suffragette
c)
Jane Addams
d)
A Flapper
17.
Which technological development most contributed to the increasing social independence of Americans in the early twentieth century?
a)
Radio
b)
Refrigerator
c)
Toaster
d)
Automobile
18.
Henry Ford's main contributions to US industry were the __________ _______ and ____________ _________
a)
electric toaster and radio program
b)
assembly line and model-t car
c)
baseball stadiums and hot dogs
d)
secret bars and bootleg gin
19.
What was the name given to the literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture in New York City?
a)
Jazz Age
b)
The Charleston
c)
Great Migration
d)
Harlem Renaissance
20.
________ and ________ illustrate anti-immigration feelings of the 1920s because they were executed for robbery on very little evidence.
a)
Sacco and Vanzetti
b)
Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt
c)
Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey
d)
John Scopes and Charles Darrow
21.
"Buy now, Pay later" most closely relates to which of the following during the 1920s?
a)
buying on the margin
b)
installment buying
c)
a good deal
d)
mass production
22.
Anti-immigrant Attitude (No Immigrants)
a)
Nativism
b)
Annexation
c)
Secession
d)
Racism
23.
____________ was the most famous gangster of the 1920s prohibition era.
a)
Marcus Garvey
b)
Calvin Coolidge
c)
Al Capone
d)
Babe Ruth
24.
The Scopes Monkey trial symbolizes the desire to some to return to _______________ religious values in the 1920s
a)
traditional
b)
modern
25.
An arrangement in which the consumer buys a good now with borrowed money and pays off the loan over time.
a)
bull market
b)
buying on the margin
c)
installment buying
d)
stock market
26.
"Margin buying" means
a)
paying up front for stock in a company
b)
buying margarine
c)
easy way to make money
d)
borrowing money to buy stock
27.
For many Americans, the 1920s were a time of...
a)
tradition
b)
classical music
c)
prosperity
d)
poverty
28.
Products intended for personal use by consumers, such as cars, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners.
a)
consumer goods
b)
mass media
c)
wartime production
d)
assembly line
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