WorksheetsRoaring Twenties - 1918-1929
Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 3hrs 33mins
What did Louis Armstrong and Langston Hughes have in common?
They were both running for office.
They both helped create interest in African American Culture
They both helped lead us to war.
How did the assembly line help America?
helped cities to grow and become bigger.
helped unemployment rise
helped make the automobile less expensive.
How did automobiles affect the migration patterns of america?
People were no longer able to afford a car.
Americans began moving to other countries
American could now move out of Urban areas and began commuting to work.
How did the popularity of sports affect our country in the 1920s?
Peopled watched games on their televisions.
People began betting on games.
People began looking at professional athletes as heroes.
What is specialization and interdependence?
When people have a great demand for something.
When workers each complete a part of the task while depending on others to do the other parts.
When one person does the task alone.
This person was known for being a famous writer during the Harlem Renaissance.
Louis Armstrong
Zora Neale Hurston
Duke Ellington
Jesse Owens
Who is responsible for first mass producing cars on the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Babe Ruth
Langston Hughes
Jessie Owens
Who was the baseball player that won four World Series and became a national hero in the 1920's?
Charles Lindbergh
Henry Ford
Langston Hughes
Babe Ruth
What was the name of the movement where African Americans expressed themselves through music, art, and literature?
Roaring Twenties
Great Depression
Harlem Renaissance
Turn of the Century
In the early 20th century, Charles Lindbergh was one of the most famous Americans in the world. Charles Lindbergh became famous by...
piloting the first boat across the Atlantic Ocean
flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean
flying solo from Florida to Alaska
starring in many Hollywood movies.
What American sport was made popular by the radio and men like Babe Ruth?
Baseball
Soccer
Tennis
Basketball
The Harlem Renaissance was a growth of New York City in the 1920's. The two MOST important factors to bringing about the Harlem Renaissance were
the end of slavery and the invention of the telephone
the invention of the telephone and the invention of the internet
the end of slavery and the prosperity of northern cities.
the prosperity of northern cities and the invention of electricity.
What was the time period called where Americans enjoyed life, made more money, and listened to jazz music?
Great Depression
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
Jazz Renaissance
Who was a famous trumpeter during the Jazz Age?
Charles Lindbergh
Louis Armstrong
Henry Ford
Langston Hughes
In what year did WWI end?
1914
1918
1929
1916
Germany's economy experienced this after WWI, when their solution to repay war debts was to print more money.
Inflation
Intuition
Surplus
Deficit
President Coolidge's popularity was mostly due to
his charming manners and easy way with foreign diplomats.
his decision to greatly expand the number of government jobs.
the economic good times that prevailed during his presidency.
his interest in expanding the powers of government.
President Harding will be remembered for
putting into words Americans' desire for a return to normalcy after WWI.
his prompt settling of the Boston Police Strike in 1919
his efficient clean-up of the previous administration's corruption.
his tendency to take rash positions on controversial issues.
Speakeasies allowed citizens to get around the consequences of the
19th Amendment
illegal gaming
Prohibition
laws protecting free speech
In the Great Migration, African Americans moved from
urban centers to farmland
the Deep South to the West
the South to the North
high employment areas to depressed regions
Prejudice against foreigners and immigrants
racism
nativism
Which invention allowed news and entertainment to reach large audiences in a very short amount of time in the 1920's?
the newspaper
the radio
the television
the mail
Presidents Harding and Coolidge favored policies that
supported the growth of business
encouraged activism
brought about social reform
discouraged laissez faire
How was Henry Ford able to reduce the sale price of the Model T?
with the use of the assembly line
changing locations
importing all raw materials
increasing the wages of his workers
Which of these best describes the "New Woman"/flappers of the 1920s?
They wore shorter skirts, bobbed their hair, and went to speakeasies
They stayed home and cooked and cleaned
They rejected the idea of suffrage
They preferred the same fashions as their parents
A nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade’s prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom.
roaring twenties
silent twenties
Jazz age
Great Depression
This increased because of the radio, advertisements, and use of credit.
consumerism
national debt
immigration
education
Why did the US economy grow during the 1920s?
Americans were buying more goods from foreign countries
Demand for consumer goods from factories increased
the US focused on steel, railroads and oil for the first time
American farming increased drastically
True or False: During the 1920s, wages increased and working hours decreased.
True
False
One example of the post-WWI Red Scare can be seen in the
Scopes Trial
Trial of Buck v. Bell
Palmer Raids
Harlem Renaissance
What was the purpose of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
To allow more immigration from Asia and Eastern Europe
To restrict immigration to the U.S.
To favor immigrants fleeing the pogroms of Russia
To ban anyone of Chinese ancestry from gaining citizenship
The form of government that advocates for the abolition of all private property is called
Capitalism
Fascism
Socialism
Communism
Many business owners felt threatened by the unions and claimed they were infiltrated by....
facists
racists
eugenics
communists
What was one way the Great Migration changed cities during the 1920s?
Many African-Americans left for northern industrial cities.
Many African-Americans remained in sharecropping in the South.
More people lived in rural areas rather than in urban areas.
What positive effect did the migration north have on African Americans?
Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
New job opportunities
New sharecropping opportunities
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial of 1925 had to do with teaching of Fundamentalism and ______.
school
evolution
abstinence
religion
He was the leader of the "back to Africa" movement.
W.E.B. DuBois
Duke Ellington
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
Why were Sacco and Vanzetti convicted?
They were serial killers, who targeted communists
They were immigrants and had radical political beliefs
They started a labor strike, that led to a riot, killing 6 people
They lynched a group of African Americans without cause
Which president believed in the idea of a , "Return to Normalcy?"
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover all were members of which party?
Democrat
Libertarian
Bull Moose
Republican
What was an unintended side effect of the passage of the 18th Amendment?
Fewer people came to the US
The rise of organized crime
The decline of the suffrage movement
The Great Migration
Effects of Prohibition were
new sources of alcohol
homemade liquor
speakeasies
crime
all of the above
The 1920s were characterized by
Prosperity, mass consumption, relaxed standards of social behavior, exciting new music
attempts at correcting behavior through Prohibition
novels that showed problems resulting from a materialistic, insensitive society
All answers are correct.
What grew as a result of installment buying?
Incomes
Consumer Debt
Government Debt
Happiness
As a result of incomes rising, which grew?
Businesses
Advertising
Happy Marriages
Scandals
The group most credited with pushing prohibition was
The KKK
African Americans
Women
Business Owners
Al Capone gave this city a reputation of Corruption and Criminality.
New York
Boston
St. Louis
Chicago
Henry Ford is credited with mastering
Modern day filming.
Use of the Assembly Line.
Flying aeroplanes.
Radio Broadcasting.
The Teapot Dome Scandal is most closely associated with
Tea parties and biscuits
The death of President Harding
Illegal leasing of government land
Langston Hughes poetry is most closely associated with which of the following?
Jazz
Motion Picture
Harlem Renaissance
Racism
This person was charged $100 for going against the teachings of the Bible and teaching that humans evolved from apes.
Sacco and Vanzetti
John Scopes
Bill Nye the Science Guy
KKK
Farmers struggled greatly during the 1920s. Why did this happen?
They struggled to pay off their debts.
They were unable to produce enough goods.
It didn't! Farmers had great success during the 1920s.
The profession of farming grew so quickly as people fled cities for rural areas.
_______ was the most famous gangster of the 1920's prohibition era who made $28 million per year from illegal alcohol and other crimes, but was ultimately sent to prison for another progressive era reform.... failure to pay income taxes.
Al Capone
Bonnie and Clyde
John Dillinger
Pretty Boy Floyd
A popular fashion or trend like flagpole sitting that only lasts for a short period of time.
Flapper
Expatriate
Fad
Renaissance
