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Roaring 20's Quiz

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The period of time when African Americans moved from rural south and urban north is known as the ___________________.

a)

Great Movement

b)

Great Migration

c)

Economic Boom Period

d)

Harlem Renaissance

2.

The "Roaring Twenties" was not a good time for all Americans. For example, _____________________ were not able to afford the new advances in technology that improved standard of living because the boll weevil was destroying their profits.

a)

immigratns

b)

factory workers

c)

sharecroppers

d)

African Americans

3.

In the 1920's, African Americans still faced discrimination in the south because of __________________.

a)

lynchings and slavery

b)

Jim Crow Laws and lynchings

c)

suggrage and lynchings

d)

slavery and Prohibition

4.

_____________________ outlawed the production and distribution of alcohol.

a)

prohibitioin

b)

suffrage

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

the Treaty of Versailles

5.

What happened as a result of the women's suffrage movement?

a)

Congress passed the 18th amendment

b)

women were no longer allowed to do certain jobs in factories or on farms

c)

Congress passed the 19th amendment

d)

women were allowed to enter the military as soldiers

6.

Which answer most closely represents what African Americans found in the north during the Great Migration?

a)

no jobs but social equality

b)

better job opportunities but continued discrimination and segregation

c)

worse conditions than they faced in the south

d)

many jobs and much fairer treatment

7.

The main purpose of the women's suffrage movement was to get ___________________________.

a)

voting rights for women

b)

women electred to Congress

c)

people to take inventions by women seriously

d)

women the right to work on farms

8.

The period of time when African Americans in urban areas had the opportunity to allow their culture to flourish is known as the ______________________.

a)

Harlem Reconstruction

b)

Harlem Renaissance

c)

Harlem Recovery

d)

Harlem Revolt

9.

Women had their earliest success in winning voting rights in rural areas of the west because __________________.

a)

few immigrants lived in rural areas

b)

women received more equality in rural areas of the west

c)

few men lived in the rural areas of the west

d)

more African Americans lived in rural areas than urban areas

10.

African Americans moved to urban areas in the north to improve their lives by working as ______________________.

a)

telephone operators

b)

police officers

c)

sharecroppers

d)

factory workers

11.

African Americans artists such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Bessie Smith were some of the best known ___________________________.

a)

writers

b)

jazz musicians

c)

painters

d)

opera singers