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1920's Review

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Flappers represented the women's desire to..................?

a)

to return to the past

b)

to break from the past

c)

increase male control of their lives

d)

improve the lives of African Americans

2.

Which of the following is a long term effect of Prohibition

a)

The consumer economy

b)

The growth of organized crime

c)

The end of alcoholism

d)

The rise of fundamentalism

3.

Of the following what is a reason for the Great Migration

a)

Free land

b)

Availability of industrial jobs in major cities

c)

The climate

d)

a widespread slowdown of business

4.

The growth of the radio and other media in the 1920's produced?

a)

less books purchased

b)

a national culture

c)

a trade war with Mexico

5.

Clubs in Harlem, New York were among the best places to listen to what form of music?

a)

Political Speeches

b)

Radio

c)

Jazz Music

d)

Country Musiz

6.

What legal right was the center of the issue in the Scopes trial>

a)

The right to open a speakeasy

b)

The right to teach evolution in schools

c)

The right to hold fundamentalist beliefs

d)

The right to hold modernist beliefs

7.

Many Americans believed that Sacco and Vanzetti were executed because they were

a)

Guilty of kidnapping

b)

Immigrants with radical beliefs

c)

Members of organized crime

d)

Setting of bombs

8.

The increase in automobiles led to the rise of new businesses such as?

a)

The railroad industry

b)

The Newspaper industry

c)

Motels and gas stations

9.

During the 1920's Red Scare Americans were most afraid of?

a)

Overspeculation

b)

Buying on credit

c)

Communists

d)

Nuclear Warfare

10.

The practice of buying and selling stock to make a quick profit is known as?

a)

Short Selling

b)

Over(Speculation)

c)

Bull Trading

d)

Bond Investing

11.

During the 1920's American Foreign Policy was based off of?

a)

Isolationism

b)

Militarism

c)

Imperialism

d)

Expansionism

12.

What as name of the movement that reflected the growth of black cultural expression that originated in Harlem, New York?

a)

New African Age

b)

Negritude

c)

Lost Generation

d)

Harlem Renaissance

13.

Laws designed to limit the number of people entering the country

a)

Quota Laws

b)

Speculation

c)

Communism

d)

Isolationism

14.

19th Amendment

a)

Voting Rights for Immigrants

b)

Voting Rights for African Americans

c)

Voting Rights for Women

d)

Voting Rights for Children

15.

18th Amendment

a)

Prohibition

b)

Voting Rights for Women

c)

Voting Rights for Men

d)

Legalizing Alcohol

16.

An Economic system that considers and treats all people equally.

a)

Communism

b)

Democracy

c)

Capitalism

d)

Xenophobia

17.

§The act of moving into a foreign country.

a)

Immigration

b)

Emigration

18.

§The act of moving out of your country.

a)

Immigration

b)

Emigration

19.

§A strict following of the “American Christian” ideals

a)

Fundamentalism

b)

Communism

c)

Red Scare

d)

Isolationism

20.

§dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.

a)

Xenophobia

b)

Red Scare

c)

Great Migration

d)

Speculation

21.

Which Supreme Court case established the clear and present danger rule

a)

Schenck vs US

b)

Miranda vs Arizona

c)

Brown vs the Board of Education

22.

the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process.

a)

Lynching

b)

Trial by Jury

c)

Genocide

23.

period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States, as well as in one rural county in Arkansas.

a)

Red Summer

b)

Bloody Sunday

c)

Blue Summer

24.

What state did the Elaine Massacre take place

a)

Kansas

b)

Pennsylvania

c)

Arkansas

d)

Oklahoma

25.

The Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma was one of the wealthiest Black neighborhoods in the United States and also called...............

a)

Wall Street

b)

Black Wall Street

c)

Money Town

d)

Cashtown

26.

who was the artist of this painting

a)

Jacob Lawrence

b)

James Weldon Johnson

c)

W.E,B, Dubois

d)

Langston Hughes

27.

The painting is most associated with which historical event?

a)

The Great Migration

b)

Red Summer

c)

Tulsa Masscre

d)

19th Amendment

28.

The poem, If We Must Die (1922) by Claude McKay is most about which of the below themes

a)

Fighting Back

b)

Revenge

c)

Fear

d)

Love

29.

The Poem, Mother to Son (1922) by Langston Hughes, is most related to which of the following themes

a)

Hope for the past

b)

Hope for the future

c)

Anger about the past

d)

Fear of the future

30.

The song, Strange Fruit (1939), written by Abel Meeropol and performed by Billie Holiday, is most related to which of the following

a)

Lynchings

b)

The Great Migration

c)

Slavery

31.

What was the name of the film that is related to the growth of the KKK during the 1920's

a)

Death of a Nation

b)

Our American Cousin

c)

Birth of a Nation

d)

If We Must Die

32.

This poltical cartoon is most likely related to

a)

Quota Laws

b)

Red Summer

c)

Great Migration

d)

Isolationism

33.

This poltical cartoon is most likely related to

a)

18th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

c)

20th Amendment

34.

This political Cartoon is most likley related to

a)

Organized Crime

b)

Great Migration

c)

The Red Scare

35.

This political cartoon is most likely related to

a)

Red Summer

b)

Communism

c)

Red Scare

d)

Harlem Rennaissance