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WorksheetsCh 11 The Roaring 1920s
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 22mins
What was the driving force behind the Great Migration? (two correct answers)
Economic Opportunity
Natural Disasters
The Coming War
Racial Tensions
The radio changed America in the 1920s by
Helping the Allies with World War I
Creating a way for Presidents to communicate with the masses
Helping spread ideas and popular culture
Dividing America into two political parties
How did the radio help grow the economy in the 1920s
paid subscription service
advertising
information dissemination
airing sporting events
This advancement boosted sales of labor saving machines in the 1920's
higher taxes
labor unions
expansion of electricity
ease of transportation
Henry Ford's ________ changed the way businesses made products and it lowered production costs.
Immigrant workers
urban plants
Model T
assembly line
This invention encouraged tourism and allowed people to live further away from their jobs
trains
planes
bicycles
automobiles
How did the installment plan most impact the American economy?
Grew the consumer goods and manufacturing sector
Bankrupted Wall Street
Increased wages
People bought less luxury items
Harding's "Return to Normalcy" pushed for all of the following except...
Isolationist policies
Raising tarrifs
Lowering taxes on Americans
Joining the League of Nations
Harding and Coolidge were against
the seperation of Church and State
Immigration Laws
Big government interfering in American businesses
Signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact
Due to a lack of regulation and oversight, what scandal shook American's faith in the government at the beginning of the 1920's?
Whiskey Ring Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal
Credit Moblier Scandal
Watergate Scandal
The Palmer Raids during the Red Scare targeted which group?
suspected Capitalists, Democrats and Republicans alike
Suspected Communist, Socialists and Anarchists
Immigrants
African Americans
Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested for what crime?
Teaching evolution
Grand larceny
Tax fraud
Armed robbery and murder
Which of the following leaders urged black people to go back to Africa and create a Pan-African State?
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T Washington
Marcus Garvey
Louis Armstrong
Prohibitionists blamed alcohol for breaking up families, abuse, economic waste and immorality
true
false
Organized Crime grew in cities due to
illegal alcohol sales being lucrative sources of income
a lack of police forces in urban areas
alcohol making people bad people
government corruption
People went here to drink during prohibition
bars
saloons
speakeasies
white house
Which concept is most closely associated with the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Traditionalism vs. Modernism
Christianity vs. Fundamentalism
Evolution vs. Social Darwinism
Science vs. Modernism
Fundamentalists believed the Bible should be taken literally
True
False
Which group got the right to vote in the 1920's?
People between 18 and 21
Illegal Immigrants
Asian Americans
Native Americans
The Lost Generation
Lost faith in modern society
couldn't find their way home after WWI
glorified war and honor
those born between 1920-1929
Flappers were
traditionalists
transendentalists
modernists
fundamentalists
WSM led to the popularity of __________ in Nashville during the 1920's
sports
country music
blues music
manufacturing
What impact did the Mississippi river play in Memphis with Blues Music?
spread culture to cities along the river
acted as a barrier to the West
it overflowed and made living there difficult
lead to the decline in population
The National Quota Act in 1924 was motivated by
fear of foreign communist radicals
concern over literacy in adults
need for skilled laborers
desire to form closer ties with our allies after WWI
The temperance movement activists believed ...
that the alcohol industry was controlled by organized crime
that the suffragettes threatened the campaign to prohibit alcohol
that the physical and economic well being of the family was threatened by alcohol consumption
that the alcohol industry was profitable for the US Treasury and should be reinstated.
Woman's rights activist who wanted to expand the right of all people to have access to contraceptives.
Ida B Wells
Susan B Anthony
Bessie Smith
Margaret Sanger
In 1933, the end of prohibition was ushered in with the passing of the ___________.
Volstead Act
18th Amendment
National Quota Act
21st Amendment
Famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote poetry in the style of Jazz music about the Black condition.
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
Bessie Smith
F Scott Fitzgerald
Famous composer and pianist during the 1920's who frequented the Cotton Club in Harlem.
Duke Ellington
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
The center of the automobile industry was established in Southeastern Michigan because industry had already been established there prior to the growth of the car.
True
False
The Red Scare led to the growth of Labor Union membership
True
False
