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The Roaring 20s

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
criminal activities that were planned & controlled by powerful groups.
a)
Bootlegger
b)
Organized Crime
c)
Illuminati
d)
Moonshiner
2.
Sought a "Return to Normalcy" after WWI, president during Teapot Dome Scandal
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Herbert Hoover
c)
Calvin Coolidge
d)
Warren Harding
3.
improving society by only allowing those with desirable characteristics to reproduce.
a)
Speculation
b)
Lost Generation
c)
Eugenics
d)
Buying on Margin
4.
manufacturing process in which parts are added to an item as it moves station to station
a)
Bessemer Process
b)
Assembly Line
c)
Interchangable Parts
d)
Consumer Economy
5.
Fear of Communist and radicals who promoted overthrow of U.S. Government
a)
Red Scare
b)
Bolshevism
c)
Modernism
d)
Fundamentalism
6.
a series of raids to capture and arrest suspected radicals mostly from Eastern Europe.
a)
Bolshevism
b)
Palmer Raids
c)
Red Scare
d)
Commie Raids
7.
Trial that tested constitutionality of Tennessee law that banned teaching of evolution
a)
Fundamentalism
b)
Modernism
c)
Scopes Monkey Trial
d)
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
8.
law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a national system of quotas.
a)
American Indian Citizenship Act
b)
Nativists Act
c)
Espionage Act
d)
National Origins Act
9.
Harding's Secretary of the Interior accepted bribes to lease oil-rich government land
a)
Lend-Lease Scandal
b)
Teapot Dome Scandal
c)
Watergate Scandal
d)
Deflate Gate Scandal
10.
Section of NYC where song-writers and musicians mixed, beginning of Blues, Jazz, Ragtime
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Brooklyn
c)
Central Park
d)
Tin Pan Alley
11.
religious and moral beliefs that are based on strict interpretation of Biblical scripture.
a)
Social Gospel Movement
b)
Fundamentalism
c)
Modernism
d)
Liberalism
12.
an economy driven by consumer spending as a percent of its gross domestic product.
a)
Buying on margin
b)
Creditor Nation
c)
Consumer Economy
d)
Speculation
13.
the mass movement of millions of African-Americans in the South to cities in the North.
a)
Great Migration
b)
KKK
c)
Garveyism
d)
Return to Normalcy
14.
first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming an international hero.
a)
Glenn Curtiss
b)
Louis Armstrong
c)
Charles Lindbergh
d)
Sinclair Lewis
15.
Writers who came of age during WW I, established literary reputations in the 1920s
a)
Lost Generation
b)
Harlem Renaissance
c)
Jazz Age
d)
Flappers
16.
Auto manufacturer who pioneered assembly-line technique, built affordable Model-T
a)
Duke Ellington
b)
Louis Chevrolet
c)
Charles Lindbergh
d)
Henry Ford
17.
a movement toward modifying traditional beliefs into a newer way of thinking & behaving
a)
Fundamentalism
b)
Bolshevism
c)
Red Scare
d)
Modernism
18.
Jazz poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, lead Harlem Renaissance
a)
Langston Hughes
b)
Duke Ellington
c)
Louis Armstrong
d)
Al Capone
19.
An era of heightened creativity among African American writers, artists, & musicians
a)
Jazz Age
b)
Great Migration
c)
Harlem Renaissance
d)
Tin Pan Alley
20.
Ban on production & sale of alcohol, led to disrespect of the law, rise of organized crime
a)
Bootlegger
b)
Prohibition
c)
Organized Crime
d)
Al Capone
21.
Harding's plan of isolationist foreign policy & reduction of government intervention
a)
Teapot Dome Scandal
b)
Palmer Raids
c)
Eugenics
d)
Return to Normalcy
22.
Advocated racial pride & supported "Back to Africa" movement for African-Americans
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Langston Hughes
c)
Marcus Garvey
d)
William Jennins Bryan
23.
Lawyer involved in "Scopes Trial" & leader in American Civil Liberties Union
a)
Duke Ellington
b)
Clarence Darrow
c)
Sinclair Lewis
d)
Warren Harding
24.
a person who makes, distributes, or sells goods illegally.
a)
Organized Crime
b)
Illuminati
c)
Gangsta
d)
Bootlegger
25.
a fashionable young woman who challenged traditional expectations of women 1920s
a)
Feminist
b)
Suffragist
c)
Flapper
d)
Rebel
26.
American Jazz trumpeter, composer, & vocalist
a)
Duke Ellington
b)
Louis Armstrong
c)
Sinclair Lewis
d)
William Jennins Bryan
27.
American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra
a)
Duke Ellington
b)
Louis Armstrong
c)
Sinclair Lewis
d)
Marcus Garvey