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1920's

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He said, "return to normalcy"?

a)

Coolidge

b)

Harding

c)

Hoover

d)

T. Roosevelt

2.

The new more progressive women of the 1920's?

a)

flappers

b)

floppers

c)

flippers

d)

bloomers

3.

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

a)

17th

b)

18th

c)

19th

d)

21st

4.

He was a famous baseball player, known as the "Sultan of Swat" & "Big Bambino"?

a)

Jackie Robinson

b)

Hank Aaron

c)

Joe Dimaggio

d)

Babe Ruth

5.

He wrote This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby. Coined phrase the Jazz Age?

a)

T.S. Eliot

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

D.W. Griffith

d)

Ernest Hemingway

6.

Famous Chicago gangster who was eventually arrested on tax evasion?

a)

Al Capone

b)

Clarence Darrow

c)

Charlie Chaplin

d)

John Gotti

7.

He was the "Little Tramp" and was a famous comedian and actor in early silent films?

a)

Charlie Chaplin

b)

D.W. Griffith

c)

Jack Dempsey

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

8.

Which amendment outlawed alcohol?

a)

21st

b)

20th

c)

18th

d)

17th

9.

He was the first to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean?

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

Clarence Darrow

c)

Orville Wright

d)

Charles Lindbergh

10.

They called him "Silent Cal"?

a)

Coolidge

b)

Harding

c)

Wilson

d)

McKinley

11.

This trial got national attention over whether or not a high school biology teacher should teach the theory of evolution.

a)

Sacco and Vanzetti trial

b)

Darwin trial

c)

Darrow trial

d)

Scopes trial

12.

It is another term for media hype?

a)

ballyhoo

b)

materialism

c)

nativism

d)

break out

13.

A famous jazz trumpeter and musician.

a)

Mick Jagger

b)

Bette Midler

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

Jack Dempsey

14.

Famous Notre Dame football coach?

a)

Knute Rockne

b)

George Gipper

c)

Red Grange

d)

T.S. Eliot

15.

Widely regarded as the best American Thoroughbred of all time, won 20/21 races?

a)

Secretariat

b)

War Admiral

c)

Seattle Slew

d)

Man-O-War

16.

Famous football player, his nickname was the "Galloping Ghost"?

a)

Red Grange

b)

Don Miller

c)

Walter Heisman

d)

Franco Harris

17.

This event caused quite a stir at the end of the decade?

a)

San Francisco earthquake

b)

Death of Harding

c)

stock market crash

d)

Harlem Renaissance

18.

Which of the following was a trait of this decade?

a)

recession

b)

materialism

c)

federalism

d)

manifest destiny

19.

Put the presidents in the correct order.

a)

Hoover, Harding, Coolidge

b)

Harding, Hoover, Coolidge

c)

Coolidge, Harding, Hoover

d)

Harding, Coolidge, Hoover

20.

Secretive establishments of the 1920's that sold alcohol?

a)

ballyhoo

b)

tavern

c)

saloon

d)

speakeasy

21.

Another name (not flappers) for the progressive women of the 20's?

a)

branch

b)

floosy

c)

vamps

d)

bopper

22.

She was a famous female pilot, first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

a)

Amelia Earhart

b)

Greta Garbo

c)

Clara Bow

d)

Gloria Swanson

23.

She wanted the option of birth control for women even though there were laws against it.

a)

Gretchen Williams

b)

Greta Garbo

c)

Margaret Sanger

d)

Gloria Steinhem

24.

He was president when the stock market crashed in 1929?

a)

Warren Harding

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

25.

Two Italian immigrants accused of robbery and murder who received and unfair trial but were convicted and executed?

a)

The Rosenbergs

b)

Fey and Poehler

c)

Unger and Madison

d)

Sacco and Vanzetti

e)

Holmes and Watson

26.

He was a famous escape artist of the 1920's?

a)

Red Grange

b)

William Barnham

c)

David Blaine

d)

Harry Houdini

27.

He was one of the most famous jazz musicians/composer of this era?

a)

Duke Ellington

b)

Knute Rockne

c)

Harry Trent

d)

Nelson Rockefeller

e)

none of the above

28.

Famous poet of the 20's, wrote The Waste Land?

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

T.S. Eliot

c)

Walter Reed

d)

Robert Frost

e)

Edgar Allen Poe

29.

It was the cornerstone of the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance. A NYC nightclub.

a)

The Roxy

b)

The Viper Room

c)

The Harlem Station

d)

Studio 54

e)

The Cotton Club

30.

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.

a)

Alice Paul

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Jeannette Rankin

d)

Bessie Smith

31.

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.

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

D.W. Griffith

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

32.

When someone prefers or favors Americans over immigrants it is called what?

a)

prohibition

b)

fundamentalism

c)

nativism

d)

materialism

e)

none of the above

33.

She was a famous female tennis player in the 1920's?

a)

Margaret Sanger

b)

Alice Paul

c)

Lucy Burns

d)

Dorothea Lange

e)

Hellen Wills

34.

He was heavy weight boxing champion for much of the 20's?

a)

Jack Dempsey

b)

Sugar Ray Leonard

c)

Mike Tyson

d)

James Weldon Johnson

e)

Red Grange