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Roaring 20's

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The ____________ movement wanted alcohol banned.

a)

Tapper

b)

Temperance

c)

Temperature

d)

Tantrum

2.

Which woman was important for women gaining the right to vote?

a)

Beyonce

b)

Eleanor Roosevelt

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Betsy Ross

3.

What was the time period when alcohol was banned known as?

a)

Profiteering

b)

Prohibition

c)

Abstinence

d)

Boring Days

4.

What did people think banning alcohol would do?

a)

Cure social problems

b)

Gain money

c)

Put more people in jail

d)

Make people create suburbs

5.

What was an illegal bar in the 20's known as?

a)

Speak Loudly

b)

Speak Slowly

c)

Speakeasy

d)

Saloon

6.

An illegal alcohol supplier was known as a-

a)

Carpetbagger

b)

Confederate

c)

Drug dealer

d)

Bootlegger

7.

What increased as a result of making alcohol illegal?

a)

Organized crime

b)

Fun and leisure time

c)

Relgions

d)

Pay for workers

8.

Who was one of the most famous mobsters of the 20's?

a)

Al Pacho

b)

Tommy the Turtle

c)

Al Capone

d)

El Chapo

9.

Which amendment banned alcohol?

a)

21st

b)

18th

c)

19th

d)

22nd

10.

What amendment made alcohol legal again?

a)

18th

b)

19th

c)

21th

d)

26th

11.

Which amendment granted women suffrage?

a)

15th

b)

18th

c)

19th

d)

21st

12.

Whose art, music, and literature became popular to mass audiences in the 1920's?

a)

American Indians

b)

Irish and Chinese

c)

African Americans

d)

Childrens

13.

Langston Hughes was a___________.

a)

Artist

b)

Poet

c)

Painter

d)

Dancer

14.

The ____________ Migration was when African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North and Midwest?

a)

Grand

b)

Great

c)

Gordo

d)

Grunge

15.

What types of music were the most popular in the 20's?

a)

Rap and Hip Hop

b)

Blues and Jazz

c)

Country and Western

d)

Samba and Rumba

16.

Bessie Smith was known as the -

a)

Lady of Rock

b)

Empress of the Blues

c)

Jazzy Lady

d)

Blues Diva

17.

John Steinbeck was an author, which means he was a-

a)

musician

b)

novelist

c)

painter

d)

dancer

18.

Georgia O'Keeffe was known for painting urban scenes and later scenes of the -

a)

Midwest

b)

Pacific

c)

Northeast

d)

Southwest

19.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote books about the _______________

a)

Jazz Age

b)

Promise of a new life for African Americans

c)

Education of children

d)

Horrors of the slums

20.

Duke Ellington was a -

a)

Painter

b)

Jazz Musician

c)

Poet

d)

Author

21.

Louis Armstrong was a-

a)

Politician

b)

Mobster in the 1920s

c)

A novelist

d)

Jazz musician and trumpet player

22.

Jacob Lawrence painted-

a)

urban scenes

b)

flowers

c)

scenes of the Great Migration

d)

scenes of old women

23.

Why did African Americans move to the Northern states of america during the Great Migration?

a)

because of youth promoted Hollywood entertainment

b)

They were treated better and they could get better jobs

c)

To live in tenements

d)

Because of the Harlem Renaissance

24.

Who made the model T?

a)

Henry Chevy

b)

Henry Mustang

c)

Henry Ford

d)

Cadillac Ford

25.

The 1920's can be described as-

a)

Terrible times the economy was hurting and people were poor

b)

They were boring times when no one drank alcohol

c)

They were exciting and thrilling and turned some ordinary people criminals.

d)

Everyone was drunk all the time and the music was mostly rap