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1920

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the 18th Amendment accomplish?

a)

It granted all men the right to vote

b)

It granted all women the right to vote

c)

It banned the sale and consumption of alcohol (prohibition)

d)

It provided equal rights for women of all races

2.

Define Prohibition.

a)

A partial ban on the sale and consumption of tobacco

b)

A partial ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol

c)

A total ban on the sale and consumption of tobacco

d)

A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol

3.

What is the motivation to prohibit alcohol in this poster?

a)

It can lead to drunk driving and car accidents.

b)

It will lead to child abuse and neglect

c)

It will cause people to lose too much money

d)

It will stop people from going to work

4.

What is the motivation to prohibit alcohol in this poster?

a)

It can prevent suicide.

b)

It will limit neglect and child abuse.

c)

It will stop men from spending too much money at bars.

d)

It will limit domestic abuse and divorce.

5.

What is a ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol?

a)

flappers

b)

prohibition

c)

bootleggers

d)

speakeasies

6.

What were secret, illegal clubs that served alcohol?

a)

flappers

b)

prohibition

c)

bootleggers

d)

speakeasies

7.

What was the case in which a Tennessee science teacher was found guilty and fined for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution?

a)

Scopes Trial

b)

Sunday Trail

c)

Simpson Trial

d)

Capone Trial

8.

What were young women who wore looser clothes, used make-up, cut their hair, and pursued new activities?

a)

fundamentalists

b)

speakeasies

c)

bootleggers

d)

flappers

9.

Who was the gangster who dominated the illegal liquor trade in Chicago through blackmail, bribery, and murder?

a)

Billy Sunday

b)

Al Capone

c)

Aimee Semple McPherson

d)

Lucky Luciano

10.

Who are people who illegally import liquor?

a)

flappers

b)

prohibition

c)

bootleggers

d)

speakeasies

11.
Prohibition was started in 1920 by which amendment?
a)
17
b)
18
c)
19
d)
21
12.
The most well-known gangster of 1920s was 
a)
Baby Face Nelson
b)
Bugs Moran
c)
John Dillinger
d)
Al Capone
13.

prohibition made it illegal to sell

a)

beer

b)

coffee

c)

liquor

d)

horses

14.

What did prohibition brought?

a)

More violence

b)

21 Amendment

c)

Organized crime

15.

A new breed of young women who wore short skirts, cut their hair into a "bob", and listened and danced to jazz music.

a)

Suffragists

b)

Flappers

c)

Idols

d)

Models

16.

This amendment gave women the right to vote.

a)

15th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

17.
Which word best describes the flapper?
a)
modest
b)
innocent
c)
rebellious
d)
quiet
18.

The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment?

a)

Prohibition

b)

Flapper

c)

Speakeasy

d)

Bootlegger

19.

Arrangement placing limits on the number of immigrants from each country.

a)

Prohibition

b)

On Margin

c)

Temperance

d)

Quota System

20.
The iceberg in this document best represents...
a)
West Germany
b)
The Titanic
c)
Communism
d)
Eastern Bloc Nations
21.

The red scare was based on people's ________ of communism

a)

Support

b)

Fear

c)

Use

Love

d)

Practice

22.

The Harlem Renaissance was a movement of African American artists who

a)

Worked in the South

b)

Calling for segregation

c)

Urged African Americans to leave the country

d)

Exploring their heritage and encouraging African Americans to be prideful of black culture.

23.

During the 1920s, controversies concerning national Prohibition and the behavior of “flappers” were all signs of disagreement over…

a)

The return to normalcy

b)

Changing culture and lifestyles

c)

Causes of the Great Depression

d)

The benefits of new technology

24.

What was one effect of the Harlem Renaissance?

a)

Prohibition ended for African Americans

b)

African-American cultural pride flourished in the cities

c)

The formation of multiracial corporations

d)

Unemployment

25.

Nativism influenced the outcome of which 1920s court case?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Roe v. Wade

c)

Sacco and Vanzetti

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

26.

One of the ways that Americans purchased goods during the 1920s was through the use of…

a)

Credit cards and installment buying

b)

Assembly line

c)

Debt

d)

Recession

27.
Which music genre was created in the 20s?
a)
Bluegrass
b)
Jazz
c)
Hip Hop
d)
R&B
28.
Which author most contributed to the Harlem Renaissance?
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Langston Huges
c)
Dorthea Lang
d)
John Steinbeck
29.
The Harlem Renaissance was
a)
Celebration of African American Culture
b)
Spark of increased industrial jobs
c)
Creation of controversial policies
d)
Creation of the Department of Interior
30.
Why were Sacco and Vanzetti viewed with suspicion?
a)
Sacco owned a gun similar to the murder weapon
b)
they were Italian immigrants and anarchists
c)
they were members of the Ku Klux Clan
d)
they looked funny