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Worksheets1920s and 1930s
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which development contributed strongly with powering labor-saving devices in the home?
a)
Windmills
b)
Natural Gas
c)
Generators
d)
Electrification
2.
Who was responsible for creating automobiles on a moving assembly line and making the automobile more affordable for the average American?
a)
John and Horace Dodge
b)
Henry Ford
c)
Louis Cheverolet
d)
David Dunbar Buick
3.
Whose innovation is pictured here?
a)
Andrew and Thomas Carnegie
b)
Wilbur and Orville Wright
c)
Thomas and William Edison
d)
Henry and Edsel Ford
4.
What is the method in which workers stay in one place as products move along on a moving belt?
a)
production
b)
automated systems
c)
mechanization
d)
moving assembly line
5.
Which of the following was NOT a result of improved transportation --
a)
greater mobility
b)
creation of jobs
c)
growth of industry
d)
rural areas expanded
6.
What's the Great Migration?
a)
Birds heading South to escape the cold
b)
African Americans heading North for better opportunities
c)
Farmers selling goods and services
d)
Increase in transportation technologies
7.
What's Prohibition?
a)
banning of consuming and selling of alcohol
b)
20th Amendment
c)
Increase in women's voting rights
d)
segregation in the automotive industry
8.
What's a 'speakeasy'?
a)
underground bar where people consumed alcohol
b)
women's suffrage group
c)
poetry contest
d)
training for public speaking
9.
Who were 'bootleggers'?
a)
people who smuggled alcohol
b)
men and women who wanted equal rights
c)
Italian shoe makers
d)
designers of the 21st Amendment
10.
Why did African Americans head North and West?
a)
Better job opportunities
b)
Increase social advancement
c)
escape racial segregation
d)
availability of cheap land
11.
The ratification of the 21st Amendment marked the end of--
a)
women's suffrage
b)
segregated society
c)
the Progressive Movement
d)
Prohibition
12.
Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution created Prohibition?
a)
15th
b)
18th
c)
19th
d)
21st
13.
Which Constitutional Amendment ended Prohibition?
a)
18th
b)
19th
c)
20th
d)
21st
14.
People who wished to make alcohol illegal in the United States were part of the _______________________ Movement.
a)
Suffrage
b)
Prohibition
c)
Temperance
d)
Harlem Renaissance
15.
Georgia O'Keefe was a(n) _________.
a)
artist
b)
singer
c)
writer
d)
composer
16.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a(n) ____________.
a)
writer
b)
composer
c)
painter
d)
sculptor
17.
Aaron Copland and George Gershwin created _____.
a)
Uniquely American Music
b)
Great American Novels
c)
Beautiful Poems
d)
Paintings of the Southwest
18.
What's the Harlem Renaissance?
a)
Rise in African American art, writing, and music.
b)
Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece
c)
F. Scott Fitzgerald's new books
d)
Underground Speakeasies
19.
Which major event did Jacob Lawrence capture in his paintings?
a)
Great Schism
b)
Great Migration
c)
Jazz Age
d)
Prohibition
20.
Famous and important African American author who wrote about culture and importance of African American culture in America --
a)
Langston Hughes
b)
Jacob Lawrence
c)
Philip Sousa
d)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
21.
Bessie Smith was a __________.
a)
Painter
b)
Blues Singer
c)
Artist
d)
Writer
22.
Which artist of the 1920s painted bright urban scenes and then changed to desert scenes of the Southwest?
a)
Georgia O’Keeffe
b)
Edward Hopper
c)
Langston Hughes
d)
Winslow Homer
23.
Which two people were composers of American music during the 1920s and 1930s?
a)
Aaron Copland and George Gershwin
b)
Will Rogers and Woody Guthrie
c)
Bonnie and Clyde
d)
Woody Guthrie and Georgia O’Keeffe
24.
Langston Hughes is known for which cultural movement?
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Victorian
c)
Realism
d)
Surrealist
25.
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
Arron Copland
George Gershwin
The people listed above were:
Bessie Smith
Arron Copland
George Gershwin
The people listed above were:
a)
poets
b)
painters
c)
musicians
d)
writers
26.
Which individual was NOT a musical artist of the Harlem Renaissance?
a)
Duke Ellington
b)
Georgia O’Keeffe
c)
Bessie Smith
d)
Louis Armstrong
27.
Which of the following people were known for their musical talent?
a)
Jacob Lawrence
b)
Bessie Smith
28.
Which of the following people were known for their musical talent?
a)
John Steinbeck
b)
Duke Ellington
29.
According to the map, where were African Americans migrating from?
a)
The South
b)
The North
c)
The East
d)
The West
30.
THREE of the fine arts that saw growth and big changes during the Jazz Age
a)
art
b)
literature
c)
music
d)
memes
31.
Author that wrote about the fast-ace lifestyle of the 1920s and the newness of the Jazz Age. Most famous book is The Great Gatsby.
a)
Langston Hughes
b)
Jacob Lawrence
c)
George Gershwin
d)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
32.
Author that wrote books about the struggles of migrant workers and the struggles faced by the poor working class. Most famous book is The Grapes of Wrath.
a)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
b)
Langston Hughes
c)
John Steinbeck
d)
Duke Ellington
33.
TWO American composers that wrote music that reminded people of U.S. landscapes. One wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" and the other guy wrote "Appalachian Spring."
a)
George Gershwin
b)
Duke Ellington
c)
Louis Armstrong
d)
Aaron Copland
34.
Poet that wrote about the struggles African Americans faced in the United States. Most famous poem is "Dreams."
a)
Langston Hughes
b)
Jacob Lawrence
c)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
d)
John Steinbeck
35.
Which of the following were AUTHORS / POETS / WRITERS during the Jazz Age?
a)
Langston Hughes
b)
Aaron Copeland
c)
John Steinbeck
d)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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