WorksheetsRoaring 20s
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Period of economic prosperity after WWI?
The Roaring 20s
The Wild Years
The Roaring 30s
The Wild 40s
Which music became popular during the 20s?
Blue Grass
Jazz
Rock 'n Roll
Classical
The Harlem Renaissance spanned which decade?
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as
an organization created to help promote African-American businesses
a period of great achievement by African American writers, artists, and performers
a movement that sought to draw people back to the inner cities
a relief program to provide jobs for minority workers
Who was Langston Hughes?
First man to fly across the Atlantic
Introduced mass production of automobiles
Legendary jazz musician
Black writer during Harlem Renaissance
Why did the economy experience a "boom" after WWI?
African Americans were moving back to the farms to grow cotton and soybeans
Consumers were preparing for a war and needed to bring extra supplies
New technologies and consumer goods were being developed and people wanted to buy them
Foreign trade grew after WWI
What did the 18th amendment to our Constitution state?
Americans had to be 18 years old to purchase alcohol
The making and selling of alcohol was banned
Alcohol could only be sold in government-run stores
Only alcohol from foreign countries could be sold
What technology became an "affordable luxury" in the 1920's and allowed people to travel more freely?
Telephones
Toasters
Railroads
Automobilies
Which group of Americans did not have a good economic time in the 1920's?
Doctors, lawyers, accountants
African Americans, Asian Americans, sharecroppers
Sharecroppers, farmers, underpaid factory workers
Teachers, ministers, farmhands
In the 1920's, which group of people were the "last hired, first fired"?
Irish Immigrants
White Americans
African Americans
Chinese Immigrants
Which one of these events happened during the 1920's?
The Spanish-American War
The bombing of the USS Maine
Prohibition made playing cards in public illegal
Women won the right to vote
The Harlem Renaissance was an EFFECT of the Great Migration?
True
False
What is a "bootlegger"?
A person who traded tobacco for alcohol products
A person who made and sold liquor illegally
A gangster like Al Capone
A person who controlled the country's economy
African Americans created noteworthy works of art and literature during the Harlem Renaissance.
True
False
What was the cause of African Americans migrating into the cities?
African Americans were excepted
People moved back to farms to sharecrop
Lack of economic opportunities in the rural South
Many cities became poor and people became homeless
Why were the 1920's sometimes called the "Roaring Twenties"?
People were roaring in the streets
Foreign trade grew after World War I
The leadership of the United States decreased
The United States grew socially and economically
What did the 19th amendment do?
Freed slaves
Ended Prohibition
Gave women the right to vote
Banned the sale of consumption of alcohol
What new technology became widespread in homes by the end of the 1920's and brought news, entertainment, and advertisements to the family home?
refrigerators
telephones
radios
electric fans
