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The Roaring 20s Unit 5 Quiz

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Calvin Coolidge became president when

a)

He defeated Warren G. Harding

b)

Warren G. Harding died in office

c)

He defeated Teddy Roosevelt

d)

He was 34

2.

Sacco and Vanzetti were

a)

immigrants & anarchists

b)

thieves & murderers

c)

immigrants & murderers

d)

thieves & lawyers

3.

John Scopes was put on trial for

a)

leasing government land for private use

b)

leading the KKK

c)

teaching evolution in school

d)

robbing the local library

4.

Henry Ford innovated the automotive industry by using

a)

robots

b)

the assembly line

c)

advertising

d)

constant improvements to mechanical reliability

5.

President Harding's presidency was tarnished by a scandal involving some of his advisors taking bribes and leasing government property to oil companies. This scandal is known as the-

a)

Daugherty Scandal

b)

Fall Scandal

c)

Forbes Scandal

d)

Teapot Dome Scandal

6.

The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees-

a)

women's right to vote

b)

African American citizenship

c)

children's rights

d)

African American voting rights

7.

Many Americans feared the country was losing its traditional values and responded by joining a religious movement known as-

a)

Catholicism

b)

Fundamentalism

c)

Protestantism

d)

Quakerism

8.

African American arts, literature, and music flourished in the 1920s and was known as-

a)

the Great Transformation

b)

the Great Awakening

c)

the South Side Renaissance

d)

the Harlem Renaissance

9.

Newspapers, Radio, movies, and magazines are forms of-

a)

mass media

b)

bohemian life

c)

"new morality"

d)

fundamentalist movement

10.

What year did the stock market crash, beginning the Great Depression?

a)

1922

b)

1931

c)

1925

d)

1929

11.

Which aspect of American culture in the 1920s had the most impact on other societies around the world?

a)

movie theaters

b)

Jazz music

c)

Flapper clothing styles

d)

architecture

12.

What was a major cause of the Great Migration?

a)

discrimination in the south

b)

demand for agricultural workers

c)

immigration of Southern Europeans

d)

development of interstate highways

13.

The National Origins Act did what?

a)

set up a quota system for immigration

b)

immigration was open to all minorities

c)

Allowed more immigrants to come in to the US

d)

birth certificates must include national origin of parents

14.

To create a need for consumers to buy their new products, manufacturers turned to-

a)

advertising

b)

mass production

c)

newspaper articles

d)

television

15.

Who made the first solo Transatlantic flight?

a)

the Wright brothers

b)

Charles Lindbergh

c)

Glenn Curtiss

d)

Samuel Langley

16.

What is the MAIN effect that the automobile industry of the 1920s had on American society?

a)

People moved closer to their jobs

b)

People could live farther from their places of work

c)

workers didn't commute anymore

d)

the mail system expanded cross country

17.

This baseball star was made an American hero through mass media

a)

Red Grange

b)

Bill Tilden

c)

Jack Dempsey

d)

Babe Ruth

18.

Isolationism allowed the US avoid future wars by-

a)

joining the League of Nations

b)

avoiding entanglement in world affairs

c)

excluding Germany from the League of nations

d)

forming an alliance with Britain and France

19.

This man pushed for African Americans to separate from white American society and establish an African homeland.

a)

B. T. Washington

b)

Marcus Garvey

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Louis Armstrong

20.

What is a defining characteristic of the Red Scare?

a)

yellow journalism

b)

pro-immigrant sentiment

c)

anti-communism sentiment

d)

increasing rights for minorities

21.

The introduction of installment buying led to-

a)

fewer jobs

b)

higher taxes

c)

less competition

d)

increased demand for goods

22.

The Espionage and Sedition Acts made it illegal to speak badly of the US government or WWI. This means the government was willing to -

a)

suspend habeas corpus

b)

confiscate private property

c)

force people into internment camps

d)

suspend freedom of speech

23.

The Roaring 20s were characterized by-

a)

internment camps, rationing of goods, and the atomic bomb

b)

installment plans, flappers, and prohibition

c)

bank failures, the New Deal, and bread lines

d)

Brinkmanship, McCarthyism, and a policy of containment

24.

Socialism is-

a)

government ownership of business

b)

the absence of government

c)

laissez-faire economics

d)

private ownership of business