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WorksheetsJazz Age
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 23mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What event allowed Calvin Coolidge to be come president?
a)
World War 1
b)
The death of president Harding in office
c)
The Boston Police strike.
d)
The great depression.
2.
Mass production of automobiles made cars less expensive and allowed people to _________?
a)
Live closer to work
b)
Take fewer vacations
c)
Live farther from work
d)
Took passenger trains more frequently.
3.
Many African American Artists had opportunities to flourish and express their creativity during ________?
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Great Awakening
c)
Harlem Resurgence
d)
The Great Migration
4.
The Washington Conference of 1921 was called to get major world powers to agree to________?
a)
Global trade Rules
b)
Disarmament
c)
The US joining the League of Nations
d)
Aid to help rebuild Europe
5.
What is a Bootlegger?
a)
Some Guy
b)
A person who smuggles illegal alcohol into the U.S.
c)
A person who puggles legal alcohol into the U.S.
d)
Why are you even asking?
6.
For teaching evolution, this biology teacher was put on trial in Tennessee for teaching evolution.
a)
John Mopes
b)
John Hopes
c)
John Dopes
d)
John Scopes
7.
Harding's campaign slogan appealed "New Normalcy" appealed to people who_______?
a)
Wanted to return to a time before WW1
b)
People who want govt. intervention in Business
c)
People who lived on farms
d)
People who were racial minorities
8.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association which sought to create a homeland in Africa for African Americans was founded by whom?
a)
Langston Hughes
b)
WEB De Bois
c)
Marcus Garvey
d)
Tu Pac Shakur
9.
Americans in the 1920's believed that the best way to avoid wars was to _____________?
a)
Expand trade
b)
Avoid envolvment in world affairs
c)
join the league of nations
d)
increase military spending.
10.
What was one industry that did not improve like the rest of the economy in the 1920s?
a)
farming industry
b)
radio industry
c)
oil industry
d)
auto industry
11.
What is Isolationism?
a)
Being by yourself
b)
Staying out of the affairs of other countries
c)
Helping cure and fight disease
d)
Running an efficient company
12.
This was a major innovation found in most homes by the end of the 20s.
a)
Radio
b)
Television
c)
Telephone
d)
Microwave.
13.
The teaching of evolution in schools was literally put on trial when a teacher was are arrested for teaching it. What was the trial called?
a)
The Scopes Trial
b)
The Dread Scott Case
c)
Sacco- Vanzetti Case
d)
Sherbert V Verner
14.
In what treaty did the world powers agree to disarm?
a)
Five-Power Treaty
b)
Scopes Treaty
c)
Kellogg-Briand Pact
d)
Treaty of Versailles
15.
Which item became a symbol of corruption in the Harding administration?
a)
log cabin
b)
Teapot Dome
c)
railroad car
d)
Model T
16.
The Sacco and Vanzetti case revealed the strong feelings of the United States public against _____ and _____.
a)
the rich, powerful
b)
foreigners, radicals
c)
African Americans, Chinese laborers
d)
the poor, homeless
17.
The chief business of the American people is business. . . . The man who builds a factory builds a temple.
a)
Warren G. Harding
b)
William McKinley
c)
Calvin Coolidge
d)
Robert La Follette
18.
The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed
a)
war
b)
bribery
c)
free trade
d)
strikes
19.
How did the rise of the automobile industry affect the American economy?
a)
A record number of Americans were inspired to buy other labor-saving devices
b)
Millions of workers took jobs making steel, rubber, and glass for car parts
c)
A record number of Americans spent billions of dollars on life insurance.
d)
Millions of workers asked for raises to pay off their car loans.
20.
How was Henry Ford able to make his Model Ts affordable for most Americans?
a)
He received government subsidies that kept production costs down
b)
He invented an assembly line that enabled him to produce cars quickly and cheaply.
c)
He instituted a 12-hour workday, thereby increasing the number of cars made.
d)
He rewarded hard workers with car vouchers, thereby boosting morale and productivity.
21.
One way the KKK terrorized African Americans was by?
a)
taking them to fields and lynching them
b)
writing racist letters
c)
working them to death
d)
having them thrown out of the country
22.
The Red Scare of the 1920s was fueled by the fear that
a)
another world war might begin
b)
Communist ideas might spread in the United States.
c)
Italian immigrants might start illegal businesses.
d)
workers� strikes might take a violent turn
23.
African Americans arts flourished in 1920´s in what became known as
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Great Transformation
c)
Great Awakening
d)
South Side Renaissance
24.
What system of manufacturing, adopted by Henry Ford divided operations into simple tasks and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum
a)
product placement
b)
Assembly Line
c)
construction design
d)
apprentice system
25.
Which event publicly debated the subjects of evolution and creationism
a)
Bill Sundays Trial
b)
Sacco-Vanzetti case
c)
the Scopes trial
d)
Aimee McPhersons faith healings
26.
Who founded the UNIA
a)
Langston Hughes
b)
Marcus Garvey
c)
Duke Ellington
d)
Paul Roberson
27.
Bars for drinking illegal alcohol are called
a)
speakeasies
b)
speakquietlies
c)
easies bars
d)
sneaky bars
28.
Buying stock for 10% down and paying off the rest when you sell it is known as
a)
buying on installments
b)
loan
c)
installment buying
d)
buying on margin
29.
A rising stock market is known as
a)
bull market
b)
kangaroo market
c)
rising market
d)
ram market
30.
putting money down on an item and then making payments each month until it is paid off is known as
a)
buying on margin
b)
installment buying
c)
payment buying
d)
bull market
31.
Bill passed by Congress to enforce the language of the 18th Amendment. This bill made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal within the borders of the United States.
a)
Butler Act
b)
Volstead Act
c)
Beer Act
32.
The migration of hundreds of thousands of African-Americans from the South to the North. African Americans were looking to escape the problems of racism in the South and felt they could seek out better jobs and an overall better life in the North. By decades end, 40 percent of the nations African Americans lived in the cities... This migration was called what?
a)
Big Move
b)
Great Migration
c)
Great Move
d)
Big Movement
33.
the first “talkie.”
a)
Model T
b)
The Jazz Singer
c)
Louis Armstrong
d)
Roaring 20s
34.
the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in his plane, “The Spirit of St. Louis.”
a)
Henry Ford
b)
Babe Ruth
c)
Charles Lindbergh
d)
Louis Armstrong
35.
The era in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was against the law was known as:
a)
Jazz Age
b)
Prohibition
c)
The Red Scare
d)
Harlem Renaissance
36.
__________ coined the term "Jazz Age" and wrote the Great Gatsby.
a)
Zora Neale Hurston
b)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
c)
Sinclair Lewis
d)
George Gershwin
37.
This picture is of a flapper. Flappers were active during:
a)
World War II
b)
The Great Depression
c)
World War I
d)
The Roaring 20s
38.
the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior,
a)
Roaring Twenties
b)
Return to Normalcy
c)
Red Scare
d)
Teapot Dome Scandal
39.
Which of the following statements is most likely to be something a nativist would state?
a)
"These darn immigrants come over here and steal our jobs"
b)
"Kids these days have no respect"
c)
"I don't believe in the theory of Evolution"
40.
What was a push factor for the Great Migration?
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Dust Bowl
c)
Terrible sports teams
d)
Not enough food available
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