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WorksheetsThe 1920's
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
What was the main new piece of technology during the 1920's?
Electricity
Radio
Airplanes
Movies
What caused Americans to start buying large quantities of electrical appliances during the 1920's?
Advertising
Margin
Cheap prices
Spread of electricity
What was so special about the movie The Jazz Singer?
It was the first full length motion picture with sound
It was Charlie Chaplin's most famous movie
It was the first movie to be produced in color and not black and white
It was the first film produced in the newly named Hollywood
Who perfected the assembly line during the 1920's and used it to produce cars?
Henry Ford
Calvin Coolidge
Clarence Saunders
Lou Gehrig
Which of the following is not true about Henry Ford and the impact of the automobile on America?
Henry Ford's Model T was very affordable and he paid his workers very well
Henry Ford utilized the assembly line to mass produce his cars
The automobile impacted America socially and economically
The automobile strengthened the family unit in the US because family road trips became popular
What was the most popular type of music during the 1920's?
Country
Jazz
Classical
Gangster Rap
What did the Temperance Movement try to make illegal?
Alcohol
Marijuana
Cigarettes
Women voting
Which amendment was it that made alcohol illegal?
16
17
18
21
How did the speakeasies obtain alcohol during prohibition?
Bootleggers supplied them
The government supplied it
The Volstead Act allowed certain speakeasies to stay open
They imported alcohol from other countries because that was not illegal
In which city did Al Capone rise to power and run a criminal organization?
Chicago
New York City
Denver
Charlotte
Smyrna
Which of the following describes the reason that ultimately caused Prohibition to end?
Gangsters like Al Capone took over the government and passed the 21st Amendment
Our government needed money because of the Great Depression so they passed the 21st and taxed alcohol
Protesters changed their minds and decided that alcohol was not bad after all
Our government realized there are more dangerous things people were using than alcohol and decided to start enforcing a ban on those things
Who was the most famous baseball player from the 1920's who held records in RBI's and slugging percentage?
Babe Ruth
Jack Dempsey
Lou Gehrig
John Smoltz
Which sorts figure was involved in the Curse of the Bambino?
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Jack Dempsey
Jackie Robinson
Which sports figure from the 1920's died from ALS that was renamed in his memory?
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Charles Lindbergh
Jack Dempsey
Who was the famous boxer from the 1920's that held the title from 1919 to 1926 and said the famous line, "I forgot to duck"?
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
Which popular figure from the 1920's played football for the University of Illinois and the Chicago Bears and was known as "The Galloping Ghost"?
Lou Gehrig
Red Grange
Billy Sunday
Babe Ruth
Who was the popular blues singer from the 1920's that was born in Chattanooga TN?
Bessie Smith
Jane Adams
Bily Sunday
Red Grange
Who was the famous baseball player turned evangelist during the 1920's?
Billy Sunday
Jack Dempsey
Lou Gehrig
Red Grange
Who was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in the plane named the Spirit of St Louis and was also a victim of the "Crime of the Century"?
Lou Gehrig
Charles Lindbergh
Billy Sunday
Red Grange
Which of the following was not true about advertising during the 1920's?
Show windows, catalogs, and billboards were all used to advertise
Advertising was used to convince customers that they needed things they really didn't need
Advertising played little to no role in convincing people to buy things that they knew they did not need
Advertising was a cause of the Consumerism that started in the 1920's and continues today
What did it mean to buy stock using Margin?
Borrowing money from banks to buy stocks
Only buying stocks with money in your saving account
To buy only stocks that were guaranteed to succeed because it was risky
To buy stocks that were guaranteed to fail in hopes that you can convince someone to buy them from you before they do
What was so different about the store pictured here that was founded by Clarence Saunders?
Customers could buy products using credit
Customers could browse the rows and choose what they wanted to buy themselves
Customers could buy produces using Margin
Customers could give the workers here a list of what they wanted and it was delivered to their car
Which of the following was not a way in which Flappers dressed differently?
Wore short skirts
Bobbed hair
Wore heavy makeup
Extravagant jewelry
Which law was a result of a revival of Christianity and made it illegal in Tennessee to teach evolution in schools?
Butler Act
Purity Act
Teapot Dome Act
The Palmer Act
Which of the following was not true about the John Scopes Trial?
It was really about which belief, Christianity or Evolution, was right
John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in his High School Biology class
In the end, evolution won the debate against Christianity
In the end, Christianity won the debate against Evolution
What type of music does Nashville popularize during the 1920's?
Jazz
Country
Rock and Roll
Gospel
Who was W.C. Handy and what city in TN is he associated with?
Famous Blues Composer, Memphis
Famous Country Singer, Nashville
Famous Country Singer, Memphis
Famous Blues Composer, Nashville
Which President from the 1920's was corrupt and involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Warren G Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
What do Americans begin to fear during the Red Scare?
Commuism
Capitalism
Socialism
Revolution
What is not true about the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti?
They were born in Italy
They were Anarchists
They were Communists
They were killed in the electric chair
Which African American was a Journalist in Memphis who documented lynching in the South?
Ida B Wells
Randolph Miller
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Which African American was a newspaper editor in Chattanooga that used his newspaper to launch a boycott?
Ida B Wells
Randolph Miller
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Which African American was a writer during the Harlem Renaissance whose most famous line was, "I am a Negro...and beautiful"
Ida B Wells
Randolph Miller
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Which African American was a musician during the Harlem Renaissance and is still known as one of the best trumpeter?
Louis Armstrong
Randolph Miller
Langston Hughes
Duke Ellington
Which 1920 writer wrote The Great Gatsby?
F Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which 1920 writer served in WWI and was apart of the "Lost Generation" and wrote The Sun Also Rises?
F Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
