Worksheets1920's
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the significance of the 19th Amendment?
a)
Women became citizens.
b)
African
Americans became citizens.
c)
Women
were granted the right to vote.
d)
African
Americans were granted the right to vote.
2.
Which of the following best describes a factor that led to the crash of the stock market?
a)
Many Americans began buying more stocks
b)
Values of stocks increased due to mass production
c)
Factories were not able to produce goods for consumers
d)
Factories were overproducing and began to lay off workers
3.
Who was the inventer of the first automobile?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Henry Ford
c)
The Wright Brothers
d)
Thomas Edison
4.
In what way did mass production change the economy?
a)
Our economy failed
b)
We became a command economy
c)
It made industries grow, gave people jobs, and allowed people to buy consumer goods
d)
It slowed down the way we made things
5.
What was invented to help workers produce many things at once?
a)
A fancy machine
b)
Automobiles
c)
The assembly line
d)
Oil rigs
6.
What is stock?
a)
A big group of animals
b)
A housing community
c)
A share of ownership in a company
d)
When you are the only business in your area of work
7.
Why were the 1920s called the "Roaring Twenties"?
a)
Because there were lions in the United States for the first time
b)
Because you could hear the roar of all of the new airplanes
c)
Because music became very popular
d)
Because people felt life was "roaring" forward like a speeding car. Women began doing things they never did before and there was a ton of new technology and inventions.
8.
The Wright Brothers invented the airplane... Who was the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean?
a)
Langston Hughes
b)
Babe Ruth
c)
Charles Lindbergh
d)
Ulysses S Grant
9.
Define prohibition
a)
The act of forbidding something such as alcoholic beverages
b)
When women can't vote
c)
When African American men can't vote
d)
When the government chooses who has to go fight in certain wars
10.
What president was blamed for the Great Depression?
a)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
b)
George W. Bush
c)
Bill Clinton
d)
Herbert Hoover
11.
Which Amendment brought an end to Prohibition?
a)
19th
b)
18th
c)
21st
d)
20th
12.
What is a speakeasy?
a)
a person who smuggles illegal alcohol
b)
an illegal bar
c)
a secret password
d)
the Chinese form of sign language
13.
Which of following people was a famous 1920s novelist that wrote about the Jazz Age?
a)
John Steinbeck
b)
Langston Hughes
c)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
d)
J. K. Rowling
14.
What percent of Americans were unemployed at the height of the Great Depression?
a)
22%
b)
24%
c)
25%
d)
27%
15.
What was a bootlegger?
a)
Criminals who bought clothing made in other countries into the U.S.
b)
Criminals who bought guns made in other countries into the U.S.
c)
Criminals who bought alcohol made in other countries into the U.S.
16.
Who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928?
a)
Amelia Earhart
b)
Charles Lindbergh
17.
What grew as a result of installment buying?
a)
Incomes
b)
Consumer Debt
c)
Government Debt
d)
Happiness
18.
True or False: Prohibition was effective.
a)
True
b)
False
19.
Who was one of the most famous baseball players during the 1920s?
a)
Babe Ruth
b)
Gertrude Ederle
c)
Amelia Earhart
20.
Prohibition created which one of the following?
a)
Reduction in crime.
b)
Reduction in alcohol related deaths
c)
Organized Crime.
d)
More money being made.
21.
All are examples associated w/ Flappers EXCEPT
a)
Smoking
b)
Skin Showing
c)
Lipstick
d)
Ankle length dresses.
22.
This was a major innovation found in most homes by the end of the 20s.
a)
Radio
b)
Television
c)
Telephone
d)
Microwave.
23.
Which of the following was NOT created during the 1920s
a)
Radio
b)
Motion Picture
c)
Television
d)
Refrigerator
24.
Charlie Chaplin is most closely associated with which of the following?
a)
Documentaries
b)
Motion Picture
c)
Radio
d)
Newspapers
25.
Women who wanted independence and freedom, and went against the norm were known as
a)
Rebels
b)
Flappers
c)
Suffragettes
26.
Speakeasies and bootlegging were a direct result of which of the following?
a)
Intolerance
b)
Criminal Activity
c)
Prohibition
d)
Flappers
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