WorksheetsThe Roaring 20's!
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 22mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What 2 men were opposing lawyers in the Scopes Monkey Trial?
a)
William Jennings Bryan & Clarence Darrow
b)
Charles Lindbergh & Glenn Curtiss
c)
Marcus Garvey & Booker T. Washington
d)
Henry Ford & Andrew Carnegie
2.
What is the overall message of this political cartoon?
a)
The Scopes Trial is making Dayton, Tennessee a lot of money.
b)
The people of Dayton are paying a lot of money to host the Scopes trial.
c)
The people of Dayton were angered by the outcome of the Scopes Trial.
d)
John T. Scopes should not have been found guilty
3.
Which event of the 1920s best reflects the conflict in American society between science and religion?
a)
Scopes trial
b)
Red Scare
c)
Quota Acts
d)
Sacco and Vanzetti
4.
What was a major result of Prohibition in the United States during the 1920s?
a)
Restrictions on immigration
b)
Increase in organized crime
c)
growth of communism
d)
destruction of family values
5.
What does buying on credit mean?
a)
Buy now, pay later
b)
Never pay
c)
Free
6.
What concept did the state of Tennessee prohibit being taught in schools?
a)
Evolution
b)
Listening
c)
Technology
7.
Give two nicknames for the decade of the 1920's.
a)
The Roaring 20's and The Jazz Age
b)
The Great Society and C'mon Get Happy
c)
The New Frontier and The Silent Majority
d)
The Age of Aquarius and the Flapper Days
8.
The purpose of the Volstead Act was to
a)
Ban the teaching of evolution
b)
Limit immigration
c)
Enforce prohibition
d)
Prohibit Lynching
9.
What foreign policy did the U.S. employ in the 1920's whereby we wanted to avoid interaction and war with foreign countries?
a)
Isolationism
b)
Expansionism
c)
Imperialism
d)
Big Stick Diplomacy
10.
Independent women of the 1920s who cut their hair short, work makeup and lipstick and wore short skirts were known as
a)
Reds
b)
suffragettes
c)
the KKK
d)
flappers
11.
Which is the color of communism?
a)
Black
b)
Blue
c)
Green
d)
Red
12.
Which group's activities reflected a pattern of intolerance toward immigrants in the US. during the 1920's?
a)
American Indian Movement
b)
United Farm Workers
c)
Ku Klux Klan
d)
National Organization for Women
13.
The fear of a communist takeover of the US during the 1920's became known as the
a)
Bad Times
b)
Red Scare
c)
Bolshevik Doom
d)
Communist Wave
14.
A new government agency was formed to fight against communists & other lawbreakers. It was called the
a)
Red Squad
b)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
c)
Commie Fighters
d)
Russians Out
15.
Who was the biggest crime boss of the 1920's, based out of Chicago?
a)
Bugs Moran
b)
Al Capone
c)
Johnny Torrio
d)
Big Jim Colisemo
16.
Which amendment to the US Constitution ended the Prohibition Era?
a)
18
b)
19
c)
20
d)
21
17.
Which amendment to the US Constitution began the Prohibition Era?
a)
16
b)
17
c)
18
d)
19
18.
An illegal bar set up to sell alcohol during the 1920's was called a
a)
jazz club
b)
speakeasy
c)
dance hall
d)
flag waver
19.
Making & selling alcohol in violation of Prohibition laws was called
a)
racing the drag
b)
rotgut
c)
dropsy time
d)
bootlegging
20.
The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as:
a)
The time period in which African Americans joined the war effort during World War I
b)
A time period when African Americans came to the city to look for jobs
c)
A time period in which African Americans fought against the discrimination in New York City
d)
A time period where African Americans celebrated their culture and roots through music, art, and literature
21.
Which accurately described the Great Migration?
a)
South to north to take advantage of the northern climate
b)
south to north to take advantage of the south climate
c)
north to south for job opportunities
d)
south to north for job opportunities
22.
What did the 19th amendment do?
a)
Gave 18 year olds the right to vote.
b)
Prohibition of alcohol
c)
Gave women the right to vote
d)
Freedom of speech and press
23.
Which is false about the 1920s?
a)
Automobiles became popular
b)
People moved to the suburbs
c)
Jazz music became popular
d)
Women became less independent.
24.
In the 1920s, controversies over Prohibition, the National Origins Act, and the Scopes trial all reflected disagreement over the
a)
effects of demobilization
b)
cultural values of the American people
c)
role of the federal government in the economy
d)
influence of labor unions on American life
25.
After World War I, one way in which the Red Scare, the passing of the Quota Acts, and the growth of the Ku Klux Klan were similar is that they all
a)
supported the goals of the suffrage movement
b)
encouraged the assimilation of new immigrants into American society
c)
exhibited prejudice against African Americans
d)
exploited fears about people who were considered un-American
26.
What do headlines such as these from the 1920s illustrate?
"Public Ignores Prohibition Restrictions"
"Evolution and Creation Debated in Scopes Trial"
"Women Bring Change to the Industrial Workforce"
"Public Ignores Prohibition Restrictions"
"Evolution and Creation Debated in Scopes Trial"
"Women Bring Change to the Industrial Workforce"
a)
debate over the role of government in the economy
b)
conflict between traditional and modern values
c)
hostility of certain groups toward ethnic minorities
d)
trend toward mass consumption of consumer goods
27.
During the 1920's, the Palmer Raids, the Immigration Quota Acts, and Sacco and Vanzetti resulted from
a)
Prejudice towards African Americans
b)
Fear of the KKK
c)
The fear that American values were threatened by radical ideas
d)
the need to strengthen national defense
28.
After World War 1, a "return to normalcy" meant
a)
an end to isolationism
b)
a return to the way life had been before the war
c)
a return to Prohibition
d)
an end to US immigration
29.
Who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean?
a)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
b)
Babe Ruth
c)
Charles Lindbergh
d)
George Gershwin
30.
Read the excerpt below from Dudley Malone’s trial speech:
“The least that this generation can do, your Honor, is to give the next generation all the facts, all the available data, all the theories, all the information that learning, that study, that observation has produced – give it to the children in the hope of heaven that they will make a better world of this than we have been able to make it. We have just had a war with twenty million dead. Civilization is not so proud of the work of the adults. Civilization need not be so proud of what the grown-ups have done. For God’s sake let the children have their minds kept open – close no doors to their knowledge; shut no door from them. Make the distinction between theology and science. Let them have both. Let them both be taught. Let them both live…”
From this, we can conclude that Malone supports ___.
“The least that this generation can do, your Honor, is to give the next generation all the facts, all the available data, all the theories, all the information that learning, that study, that observation has produced – give it to the children in the hope of heaven that they will make a better world of this than we have been able to make it. We have just had a war with twenty million dead. Civilization is not so proud of the work of the adults. Civilization need not be so proud of what the grown-ups have done. For God’s sake let the children have their minds kept open – close no doors to their knowledge; shut no door from them. Make the distinction between theology and science. Let them have both. Let them both be taught. Let them both live…”
From this, we can conclude that Malone supports ___.
a)
the teaching of both evolution and creationism
b)
the teaching of only evolution
c)
the speeches of William Jennings Bryan
d)
a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible
31.
The Red Scare refers to:
a)
The trampling of individual rights
b)
The panic in the U.S. that followed the Bolshevik Revolution
c)
The robbery and murder of citizens at the hand of anarchists
d)
The trouble facing the U.S. economy during the 1920s
32.
_________ was the evangelist who preached against the evils of drinking and predicted a new age of virtue and religion.
a)
Billy Sunday
b)
A. Mitchell Palmer
c)
Clarence Darrow
d)
John T. Scopes
33.
The prejudice against foreign-born people is known as:
a)
Isolationism
b)
Communism
c)
Nativism
d)
Fundamentalism
34.
Flappers embraced all of the following EXCEPT:
a)
waist-less dresses
b)
corsets
c)
casual dating
d)
dancing
35.
Those who oppose any form of government are
a)
communists
b)
anarchists
c)
socialists
d)
isolationists
36.
All of the following were famous musical artists during the jazz age EXCEPT
a)
Bessie Smith
b)
Langston Hughes
c)
Louis Armstrong
d)
Duke Ellington
37.
The purpose of the Volstead Act was
a)
to fund enforcement of Prohibition
b)
to decrease immigration from Southern Europe
c)
to increase funding for anti-KKK activities
d)
to repeal the 18th Amendment
38.
Which of the following was NOT considered an important factor in the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
a)
Buying on the margin
b)
The National Origins Act
c)
Overproduction of goods
d)
Laissez-Faire government policies
39.
The assembly line is most associated with what automotive giant?
a)
Henry Ford
b)
Karl Benz
c)
John DeLorean
d)
Walter Chrysler
40.
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Bessie Smith most likely identified which of the following?
a)
The Red Scare
b)
The Harlem Renaissance
c)
Prohibition
d)
The 19th Amendment
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