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Ch. 20

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 2hrs 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was Prohibition?
a)
A complete ban on the sale of food
b)
A complete ban on the sale of alcohol
c)
A complete ban on the sale of clothes
d)
A complete ban on the sale of cars
2.
Author who's depiction of the black experience was essential to the Harlem Renaissance.
a)
Babe Ruth
b)
Langston Hughes
c)
Marcus Garvey
d)
Clarence Darrow
3.
What did the 18th Amendment State?
a)
This amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
b)
This amendment changed the age a person had to be to buy alcohol.
c)
This amendment outlawed the advertisment of alcohol.
d)
The amendment limited immigration.
4.
What were illegal places where people drank alcohol called?
a)
Speakeasies
b)
Cellars
c)
Hidden spots
d)
Speaksoftly
5.
The Harlem Renaissance was focused on the writing and music related to
a)
African Americans
b)
Immigrants
c)
Communists
d)
Republicans
6.
Which was NOT a characteristic of a flapper?
a)
smoked and drank in public
b)
wore make up
c)
over 65 yrs. old
d)
rebellious, fun, and energetic
7.
This man was a political leader in the Black community during the Harlem Renaissance who wanted Black Americans to be proud of themselves, see the beauty of themselves, and stay separate from White people. 
a)
Marcus Garvey 
b)
Calvin Coolidge  
c)
Duke Ellington
d)
Langston Hughes 
8.
Many believe this author captured the spirit of the "Roaring Twenties" with his novel Titled The Great Gatsby.
a)
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
b)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
c)
Ernest Hemingway
d)
Louis Armstrong
9.
What type of music became a new trend during this time in the 1920s?
a)
Jazz
b)
Hip-hop
c)
Country
d)
Blues
10.
The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 had to do with teaching of Fundamentalism and ______.
a)
school
b)
Evolution
c)
life
d)
religion
11.
Who was one of the most famous baseball players during the 1920's?
a)
Amelia Earhart
b)
Babe Ruth
c)
Gertrude Ederle
d)
Derek Jeter
12.
Which amendment ended prohibition?
a)
19th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
21st Amendment
d)
13th Amendment
13.
The first movie to include sound was called:
a)
Gone with the Wind
b)
The Jazz Singer
c)
The Wizard of Oz
d)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
14.

_________ brought sports and news to homes in the 1920s.

a)

Television

b)

Radio

c)

Telephone

d)

Telegraph

15.

Jazz musician from New Orleans combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtimes

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Jesse Owens

16.
 What were the most popular types of music in the 1920’s.
a)
Rap
b)
Classical
c)
Jazz and Blues
d)
Country
17.
These hate group gained traction in the 1920’s, even though they had been around since right after the Civil War. They are notorious for hating people who are of different races, or from different countries. What is the name of this hate group?
a)
NAACP
b)
War Hawks
c)
KKK
d)
Nazis
18.
The belief that the human race could be improved by breeding. Superior parents would have great children
a)
Tin Pan Alley
b)
Eugenics 
c)
Laissez-Faire  
d)
Greentics
19.
The _____ was the movement of African Americans from the South to cities in the North.
a)
Big Migration
b)
Great Migration
c)
Yellow Migration
20.

Person who believes that there should be no government

a)

Fundamentalist

b)

Evolutionist

c)

Anarchist

d)

Creationist

21.

A person (as an artist or writer) leading an unconventional lifestyle

a)

Painter

b)

Bohemian

c)

Sculptor

d)

Creationist

22.

A government’s power to control people and property in the interest of public safety, health, welfare, and morals

a)

18th Amendment

b)

21st Amendment

c)

police powers

d)

flapper

23.

Rejected Darwin’s theory of evolution, which suggested that humans developed from lower forms of life over millions of years.

a)

Evolution

b)

Creationism

c)

Fundamentalism

d)

Eugenics

24.

Made it illegal to teach anything that denied creationism and taught evolution instead.

a)

18th Amendment

b)

Volstead Act

c)

21st Amendment

d)

Butler Act

25.

The _____________________________limited immigration to 3 percent of the total number of people in any ethnic group already living in the United States.

a)

Volstead Act

b)

Butler Act

c)

Emergency Quota Act

d)

National Origins Act

26.

The ______________________________ made immigrant restriction a permanent policy.

a)

Volstead Act

b)

Butler Act

c)

Emergency Quota Act

d)

National Origins Act

27.

A “________________________” challenged traditional ideas and glorified youth and personal freedom.

a)

Traditional Morality

b)

Old Morality

c)

New Morality

d)

Morality

28.

The ________________________ made the enforcement of Prohibition the responsibility of the U.S. Treasury Department.

a)

Volstead Act

b)

Butler Act

c)

Emergency Quota Act

d)

National Origins Act

29.

Chicago poet ________________________ used common speech to glorify the Midwest and the expansive nature of American life.

a)

Babe Ruth

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Oscar Depriest

d)

Carl Sandburg

30.

________________________ was elected as the first African American representative in Congress from a Northern state after African Americans voted as a block.

a)

Babe Ruth

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Oscar Depriest

d)

Carl Sandburg

31.

These immigrants fled their country in the aftermath of the _________________________________.

a)

American Revolution

b)

War of 1812

c)

Mexican Revolution on 1910.

d)

Harlem Renaissance

32.

What were the two places the artistic movement attracted artist and writers?

a)

Manhattan and Chicago

b)

Chicago and Detroit

c)

Manhattan and New York

d)

Chicago and Atlanta

33.

The Bohemian areas were considered centers for:

a)

Creativity, enlightenment and freedom

b)

Traditional thinking, academics, and leisure

c)

Music, cultural diversity, and gangs

d)

None of the Above

34.

What did Bessie Smith sing about?

a)

Unrequited love, poverty, and oppression

b)

The joy in life

c)

Drugs and alcohol

d)

Fairy tale love songs

35.

Style of music portraying unrequited love, poverty, and oppression

a)

Jazz

b)

Blues

c)

R&B

d)

Hip Hop

36.

What is the name of the movement which promoted the growth of African-American culture and later influenced the civil rights movement?

a)

Great Migration

b)

Harlem Renaissance

c)

Back to Africa Movement

d)

Temperance Movement

37.

What movement during the 1920s caused many Americans to fear immigrants because they thought they could be communists?

a)

Red Scare

b)

Americanization Movement

c)

Social Gospel Movement

d)

Social Darwinism

38.

What belief system encouraged immigration quotas and the rise of the KKK during the 1920s?

a)

Social Gospel

b)

Civil Rights Movement

c)

Nativism

d)

NAACP

39.

During what event did many African Americans leave the south and move to the north in search of economic opportunities in industrialized cities?

a)

Great Migration

b)

Dust Bowl

c)

Rust Belt to Sun Belt Migration

d)

Social Darwinism

40.

Why was Prohibition seen as a failure?

a)

Speakeasies were established to replace bars.

b)

It led to an increase in organized crime.

c)

Mobsters made it unsafe in the cities.

d)

All of the above

41.

What movements during the 1920s believed that some people were inferior and should not reproduce.

a)

Eugenics & Social Darwinism

b)

Red Scare & Nativism

c)

Social Gospel & Muckrakers

d)

Tin Pan Alley & Harlem Renaissance

42.

Flappers during the 1920s -

a)

confronted discrimination in employment and education

b)

challenged traditional attitudes and social norms.

c)

joined the Army and fought in combat

d)

refused to use their 19th Amendment rights

43.

The __________________________ ended prohibition and was passed in 1933.

a)

18th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

c)

20th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

44.

Nativism influenced the outcome of which 1920s court case?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Roe v. Wade

c)

Sacco and Vanzetti

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

45.

What is mass media?

a)

Illegal bars and clubs

b)

Jazz musicians

c)

Communication that reaches many people

d)

Powerful gangsters

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