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WorksheetsThe Roaring 20s Unit 5 Quiz
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
Calvin Coolidge became president when
He defeated Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding died in office
He defeated Teddy Roosevelt
He was 34
Sacco and Vanzetti were
immigrants & anarchists
thieves & murderers
immigrants & murderers
thieves & lawyers
John Scopes was put on trial for
leasing government land for private use
leading the KKK
teaching evolution in school
robbing the local library
Henry Ford innovated the automotive industry by using
robots
the assembly line
advertising
constant improvements to mechanical reliability
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-
Daugherty Scandal
Fall Scandal
Forbes Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal
The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees-
women's right to vote
African American citizenship
children's rights
African American voting rights
Many Americans feared the country was losing its traditional values and responded by joining a religious movement known as-
Catholicism
Fundamentalism
Protestantism
Quakerism
African American arts, literature, and music flourished in the 1920s and was known as-
the Great Transformation
the Great Awakening
the South Side Renaissance
the Harlem Renaissance
Newspapers, Radio, movies, and magazines are forms of-
mass media
bohemian life
"new morality"
fundamentalist movement
What year did the stock market crash, beginning the Great Depression?
1922
1931
1925
1929
Which aspect of American culture in the 1920s had the most impact on other societies around the world?
movie theaters
Jazz music
Flapper clothing styles
architecture
What was a major cause of the Great Migration?
discrimination in the south
demand for agricultural workers
immigration of Southern Europeans
development of interstate highways
The National Origins Act did what?
set up a quota system for immigration
immigration was open to all minorities
Allowed more immigrants to come in to the US
birth certificates must include national origin of parents
To create a need for consumers to buy their new products, manufacturers turned to-
advertising
mass production
newspaper articles
television
Who made the first solo Transatlantic flight?
the Wright brothers
Charles Lindbergh
Glenn Curtiss
Samuel Langley
What is the MAIN effect that the automobile industry of the 1920s had on American society?
People moved closer to their jobs
People could live farther from their places of work
workers didn't commute anymore
the mail system expanded cross country
This baseball star was made an American hero through mass media
Red Grange
Bill Tilden
Jack Dempsey
Babe Ruth
Isolationism allowed the US avoid future wars by-
joining the League of Nations
avoiding entanglement in world affairs
excluding Germany from the League of nations
forming an alliance with Britain and France
This man pushed for African Americans to separate from white American society and establish an African homeland.
B. T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. DuBois
Louis Armstrong
What is a defining characteristic of the Red Scare?
yellow journalism
pro-immigrant sentiment
anti-communism sentiment
increasing rights for minorities
The introduction of installment buying led to-
fewer jobs
higher taxes
less competition
increased demand for goods
The Espionage and Sedition Acts made it illegal to speak badly of the US government or WWI. This means the government was willing to -
suspend habeas corpus
confiscate private property
force people into internment camps
suspend freedom of speech
The Roaring 20s were characterized by-
internment camps, rationing of goods, and the atomic bomb
installment plans, flappers, and prohibition
bank failures, the New Deal, and bread lines
Brinkmanship, McCarthyism, and a policy of containment
Socialism is-
government ownership of business
the absence of government
laissez-faire economics
private ownership of business
