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Roaring 20s

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Prohibition; legislation that made the sell, production, consumption, transport, and distribution of alcohol illegal in the US

a)

16th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

2.

Teapot Dome Scandal

a)

The British were upset by the cost of making tea.

b)

The US government order a tax on tea.

c)

The President colluded with the Soviet Union in order to traded cheaper natural gas.

d)

Oil executives bribed interior secretary and got government land in return.

3.

Widespread fear of communism and radicals in the US following the turmoil of post-war Europe.

a)

Red Scare

b)

Blue Scare

c)

Containment

d)

Domino Theory

4.

Bootlegger

a)

Illegal alcohol smugglers

b)

Legal alcohol producers

c)

Boot smugglers

d)

Legal taxes sales for alcohol producer

5.

19th Amendment

a)

Women's suffrage

b)

Men's suffrage

c)

Gave women the right to the freedom of speech

d)

Gave women the right to freedom of religion

6.

A group organized after the Civil War to take away the freedoms of the African American.

a)

Ku Klux Klan

b)

NAACP

c)

Women's Rights of America

d)

Red Scare

7.

A highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school.

a)

Mankin Trials

b)

Monroe Trial

c)

Scopes Trial

d)

Brown Trial

8.

Harlem Renaissance

a)

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished.

b)

A period in the 1700s when African-American considered property

c)

An illegal club, where you could buy alcohol illegally.

d)

A legal club, where you could sell shells

9.

The 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism.

a)

Reconstruction Age

b)

War of 1812

c)

Jazz Age

d)

Musical Age

10.

Ohio Gang

a)

Friends of President Harding who appointed them to offices & they used their power to gain money.

b)

Associates of President Cologne who had made money on racing horses during the 1920s.

c)

Producers of illegal nuclear weapons during the 1920s.

d)

Members of Congress who were from the state of Washington but wanted to be from Ohio.