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1920s and 30s quiz

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the roaring 20's?

a)

A time of booming business, lots of new entertainment like Jazz Age music, and new technologies.

b)

Lions in their 20's that roar.

c)

When the stock market crash happened and it was causing the great depression so they called it the roaring 20's.

2.

Who was Louis Armstrong?

a)

Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians.

b)

The first guy to land on the moon.

3.

Who is Babe Ruth ?

a)

A Canadian professional ice hockey player, referee, coach and executive.

b)

An American football and basketball player.

c)

He was a famous baseball player who played for the Yankees. He helped develop a rising popularity for professional sports.

4.

Who was CoCo Chanel?

a)

She was a musician.

b)

She was a fashion designer.

c)

She was a writer.

d)

She was a silent movie actor.

5.

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

a)

True definition

b)

False definition

6.

What is Al Capone famous for? He was a mob king in Chicago who controlled a large network of speakeasies with enormous profits. His illegal activities convey the failure of prohibition in the twenties and the problems with gangs.

a)

False

b)

True

7.

Prohibition

a)

Ban of alcohol

b)

Ban of guns

c)

Ban of gangsters

8.

The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the 18th Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution was the “National Prohibition amendment.” It banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. and its possessions.

a)

False

b)

True

10.

The Great Migration- Movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Flappers- Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

New Technologies:

a)

Hairdryer

b)

Toothbrush

c)

Band-aids

d)

Radios

e)

Automobiles

13.

Be able to explain how culture changes after the war

a)

More leisure time

b)

Disposable income, More money spent on entertainment

c)

More taxes

d)

Changes in art movements

14.

The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl - 1930s

a)

The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.

b)

The start of WW2 and the bombs caused the dust bowl that caused the Great Depression.

15.

A severe downturn in stock prices that occurred in October of 1929

a)

The dust bowl.

b)

WW2.

c)

The Great Depression.

d)

Stock market crash.

16.

Black Sunday- April 14, 1935. Possibly worst day in Dust Bowl when farmers believed the world was ending

a)

True

b)

False

17.

The Dust Bowl- A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry.

a)

False

b)

True

18.

What caused The Dust Bowl? Terrible drought, lack of rain, overworking the land, loss of native grasses.

a)

False

b)

True

19.

The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression - The New Deal

a)

True

b)

False

20.

What began to take over farms? Lady bugs and grasshoppers

a)

True

b)

False

21.

What part of the United states did the dust bowl occur?

a)

Oklahoma, Kansas, North Texas

b)

Colorado

c)

Parts of Colorado

d)

Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas

e)

New Mexico

22.

Be able to explain life during the depression. (what they did for food, what daily life was like, and how it affected their families.)

a)

Poor people became rich

b)

Rich people became poor

c)

Farmers had to eat dirt

d)

None of the above