Worksheets1920's
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 5mins
He said, "return to normalcy"?
Coolidge
Harding
Hoover
T. Roosevelt
The new more progressive women of the 1920's?
flappers
floppers
flippers
bloomers
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
17th
18th
19th
21st
He was a famous baseball player, known as the "Sultan of Swat" & "Big Bambino"?
Jackie Robinson
Hank Aaron
Joe Dimaggio
Babe Ruth
He wrote This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby. Coined phrase the Jazz Age?
T.S. Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
D.W. Griffith
Ernest Hemingway
Famous Chicago gangster who was eventually arrested on tax evasion?
Al Capone
Clarence Darrow
Charlie Chaplin
John Gotti
He was the "Little Tramp" and was a famous comedian and actor in early silent films?
Charlie Chaplin
D.W. Griffith
Jack Dempsey
W.E.B. DuBois
Which amendment outlawed alcohol?
21st
20th
18th
17th
He was the first to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean?
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
Orville Wright
Charles Lindbergh
They called him "Silent Cal"?
Coolidge
Harding
Wilson
McKinley
This trial got national attention over whether or not a high school biology teacher should teach the theory of evolution.
Sacco and Vanzetti trial
Darwin trial
Darrow trial
Scopes trial
It is another term for media hype?
ballyhoo
materialism
nativism
break out
A famous jazz trumpeter and musician.
Mick Jagger
Bette Midler
Louis Armstrong
Jack Dempsey
Famous Notre Dame football coach?
Knute Rockne
George Gipper
Red Grange
T.S. Eliot
Widely regarded as the best American Thoroughbred of all time, won 20/21 races?
Secretariat
War Admiral
Seattle Slew
Man-O-War
Famous football player, his nickname was the "Galloping Ghost"?
Red Grange
Don Miller
Walter Heisman
Franco Harris
This event caused quite a stir at the end of the decade?
San Francisco earthquake
Death of Harding
stock market crash
Harlem Renaissance
Which of the following was a trait of this decade?
recession
materialism
federalism
manifest destiny
Put the presidents in the correct order.
Hoover, Harding, Coolidge
Harding, Hoover, Coolidge
Coolidge, Harding, Hoover
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Secretive establishments of the 1920's that sold alcohol?
ballyhoo
tavern
saloon
speakeasy
Another name (not flappers) for the progressive women of the 20's?
branch
floosy
vamps
bopper
She was a famous female pilot, first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart
Greta Garbo
Clara Bow
Gloria Swanson
She wanted the option of birth control for women even though there were laws against it.
Gretchen Williams
Greta Garbo
Margaret Sanger
Gloria Steinhem
He was president when the stock market crashed in 1929?
Warren Harding
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Roosevelt
Two Italian immigrants accused of robbery and murder who received and unfair trial but were convicted and executed?
The Rosenbergs
Fey and Poehler
Unger and Madison
Sacco and Vanzetti
Holmes and Watson
He was a famous escape artist of the 1920's?
Red Grange
William Barnham
David Blaine
Harry Houdini
He was one of the most famous jazz musicians/composer of this era?
Duke Ellington
Knute Rockne
Harry Trent
Nelson Rockefeller
none of the above
Famous poet of the 20's, wrote The Waste Land?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
T.S. Eliot
Walter Reed
Robert Frost
Edgar Allen Poe
It was the cornerstone of the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance. A NYC nightclub.
The Roxy
The Viper Room
The Harlem Station
Studio 54
The Cotton Club
She was the first female to elected office within the federal government when she was elected to the US House of Reps in 1916 from the state of Montana.
Alice Paul
Susan B. Anthony
Jeannette Rankin
Bessie Smith
He was the first African American to receive a Ph D from Harvard. He also help to found the NAACP and was one of our first Civil Rights activist.
Martin Luther King
Booker T. Washington
D.W. Griffith
W.E.B. DuBois
When someone prefers or favors Americans over immigrants it is called what?
prohibition
fundamentalism
nativism
materialism
none of the above
She was a famous female tennis player in the 1920's?
Margaret Sanger
Alice Paul
Lucy Burns
Dorothea Lange
Hellen Wills
He was heavy weight boxing champion for much of the 20's?
Jack Dempsey
Sugar Ray Leonard
Mike Tyson
James Weldon Johnson
Red Grange
