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WorksheetsMr. Lee's Roaring 20s and WWI Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 42mins
Led an idea that African Americans should move “Back to Africa” to end racial tensions:
Martin Luther King
W.E.B. Dubois
Marcus Garvey
Malcolm X
What was the most popular types of music in the 1920’s?
Rap
Classical
Jazz
Country
The Red Scare in America was a result of the spread of __________ overseas.
disease
Democracy
Communism
immigrants
What coincided with the Great Migration to the North from the South by African Americans, as well as an increase in education?
Socialism.
Evolution.
Native Americans.
Harlem Renaissance.
The most direct result of the 18th Amendment:
People were mostly in support of the amendment.
Organized crime in America increased.
Organized crime in America decreased.
People stopped drinking alcohol.
Who was the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in one flight?
Marcus Garvey
Henry Ford
Charles Lindeburgh
Herbert Hoover
The 19th amendment is crucial to U.S. History because:
Prohibited alcohol.
Allowed direct election of Senators.
Guaranteed women the right to vote
Abolished slavery.
The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 had to do with teaching of which controversial topic of science?
Stem Cell.
Evolution.
Pangaea.
Big Bang Theory.
This man is one of the most famous criminals in U.S. History. He was rumored to have made $60 million a year during Prohibition. What was the name of the most famous bootlegger during Prohibition?
Baby Face Nelson
Al Capone
George Harris
James Jones
Many believe this author captured the spirit of the "Roaring Twenties" with his novel Titled The Great Gatsby:
Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Ernest Hemingway.
Louis Armstrong.
What was Prohibition?
A complete ban on the sale of food.
A complete ban on the sale of clothes.
A complete ban on the sale of alcohol.
A complete ban on the sale of cars.
Millions of Black Americans migrated North during the early 1900's and into the 1920's. This is known as:
The Big Move.
The Great Migration .
The Harlem Renaissance.
The Great Separation.
Both Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge:
Believed in a laissez-faire approach to the economy and government.
Believed government intervention was important to a successful economy.
Were anarchists
Had an administration riddled with scandal.
President Harding idea for the US to return to life as it had been before WWI:
Prosperity.
"Return to Normalcy".
Harlem Renaissance.
Which of these events caused the United States to join the fight against Germany in World War I?
A. The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram.
B. The attack on the Eastern Front, the Schlieffen Plan.
C. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
D. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What German military advancement led to the US involvement in WWI?
A. The airplane.
B. The machine gun (maxim gun).
C. The submarine (U-boat).
D. The tank.
The Treaty of Versailles greatly impacted Germany. Identify all negative outcomes that impacted Germany:
Economic (reparations).
Depression of Germany (money lost value).
Loss of territory.
Military disarmament.
In the 1920's, African Americans still faced discrimination in the South characterized by ________________.
The slave trade.
Jim Crow Laws and lynchings.
Suffrage and lynchings.
Slavery and Prohibition.
The Roaring Twenties were characterized most by the following:
Internment camps, the rationing of goods, and the first use of the atomic bomb.
Bank failures, the New Deal and bread lines.
Installment plans (buying on credit), Prohibition, and flappers.
Progressive movement legislation such as, the end of child labor, the meat inspection act, national conservation, health and safety codes.
Which pull factor contributed to the Great Migration?
The availability of land grants for homesteaders.
Economic opportunities in industrialized cities.
Better soil conditions in previously uncultivated areas.
The lower cost of living in urban areas.
During the 1920's, what was one result of innovations in U.S. transportation technology?
Commercial airplanes replaced ocean liners as the primary means of travel to Europe.
Mass-produced automobiles made travel more affordable for many people.
Cable cars provided a comfortable means of quick travel to any city within a state.
Container ships delivered agricultural goods to ports along the Pacific coast.
1920's innovator that began mass production and the use of assembly line to make automobiles more affordable:
Woodrow Wilson
Henry Ford
Nikita Kia
Alvin Acura
America's foreign policy at the onset of WWI:
Nationalism
Militarism
Communism
Isolationism
Dance that was popular during the 1920's:
Savannah
Cincinnati
Charleston
Harlem Shake
Jazz musician who helped the 1920's become known as the "Jazz Age":
Louis Armstrong
Charlie Parker
James Brown
Marvin Gay
What is Woodrow Wilson most known for?
Being the President who tried to keep the US out of WWI.
Famous African-American poet who lived in Harlem.
British passenger ship sunk by German U-Boat killing Americans.
First person to successfully build and fly an airplane.
What was the spark that led to WWI?
Pearl Harbor.
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
Sinking of the Lusitania.
The Zimmerman Telegram.
Which country was forced to accept blame for WWI?
England
France
Austria
Germany
Which of these is a type of fighting primarily used throughout WWI?
Trench Warfare
Atomic Bomb
Guerilla Warfare
No-Man's Land
What is a devotion to the interests and culture of ones nation?
Imperialism
Alliance
Nationalism
Militarism
What was the Red Scare?
A time when people were afraid of Anarchism, Communism, and Socialism.
A time when Americans feared Democracy.
Fear of Adolf Hitler.
Fear of WWII.
Many people viewed Sacco and Vanzetti with suspicion because:
They were communists.
They were Italian immigrants and anarchists.
Sacco owned a gun similar to the murder weapon.
They were members of the KKK.
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act?
Jacob Riis
Lewis Hines
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a trust-buster?
Teddy Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
James Garfield
Journalists that exposed the corruption and problems going on in society during the early 1900's:
Suffragists
Muckrakers
Captains of Industry
Robber Barons
In 1906, he wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry:
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Frank Norris
This tragic event was one major factor leading to the need for building codes and government regulation of businesses:
Haymarket Riot
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
founding of the Tuskegee Institute
attempted assassination of President Garfield
Law that requires company to properly label food and medicines:
Medicine Man
Food Amendment
Label Lemons
Pure Food and Drug Act
What is a tenement?
A person who owns the lease to an apartment.
A room or apartment overcrowded with families. Usually poor.
A law or rule that makes something illegal.
A piece of land held by an owner.
What is a Political Machine?
A ballot box
A political group with an authoritative boss who keeps power through corruption
A political group who seek to expose the corruption in politics
A polling machine which counts votes
