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WorksheetsProsperity and Crisis
Total questions: 72
Worksheet time: 33mins
Who made the automobile affordable?
Henry Ford
J.P. Morgan
Albert Fall
Calvin Coolidge
The most popular car was the...
Ford Model T
Pontiac Model T
Chrysler Model D
Ford model D
What innovation resulted in cheaper automobiles?
Installment Buying
The American Highway System
The Assembly line
Electricity
What became a symbol of a 1920s woman?
the flapper
Rossie Rivette
women´s voters
an economic system in which all wealth and property are owned by the state is _____________
Communism
Democracy
Monarchy
Socialism
the legal ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor anywhere in the United States from 1920 to 1933
the Volstead Act
the 18th Amendment
The Butler Act
the 21st Amendment
a person who smuggled liquor into the United States during Prohibition
boat ruffians
bootlegger
speakeasies
banners
This is the economic system in which all factors of production were privately owned and there was no government interference.
Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Socialism
Factors of Production
Exploit
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A theater for African Americans
A rebirth of African American culture in art, music, and literature
Another name for the Middle Ages
The name given for the movement of African Americans from the southern United States to the northern United States
American's were able to buy Henry Ford's Model T because of what new economic system?
The assembly line
Installment Buying
Consumerism
Government loan programs
The common name for the 18th Amendment
Prohibition
Suffrage
Red Scare
Quota laws
All of the following are causes of the Red Scare EXCEPT
Labor strikes across the nation
Migration of African Americans north
Increased immigration to America
the Bolshevik Revolution
People who oppose organized government.
Anarchists
Immigrants
Fundamentalists
Drys
All of the following explain America's support for quota laws EXCEPT...
The fear that immigrants were taking jobs
The fear of immigrants bringing undemocratic ideas to the nation.
The fear that immigrants would join the KKK.
The fear that immigrants would bring innovative businesses to the nation.
What was the purpose of the Volstead Act?
to enforce the 17th Amendment
to enforce 18th Amendment
to enforce the 19th Amendment
to enforce the 21st Amendment
All of the following groups were considered "drys" except...
The KKK
African Americans
American Women
Rural Americans
Al Capone became the most famous one of these during the era of prohibition
Speakeasy Owner
Volstead Agent
Flapper
Bootlegger
What was a backlash to Prohibition?
The reduction in crime across America
The reduction in alcohol related deaths
The loss of jobs across several industries
The rise of independent female culture
Critics of the Palmer Raids believed them to be
a violation of the 1st Amendment rights of citizens.
an action by the Republican party to get rid of Democrats.
protecting people's freedom of speech.
a violation of the League of Nations
The Scopes Trial pitted which groups against each other in 1925?
Science v. Fundamentalism
Urban v. Rural
Wets v. Drys
Nativists v. Cultural Pluralists
What did Republican President Herbert Hoover call Prohibition?
"The White Man's Burden"
"The Last Great Hope"
"The Return to Normalcy"
"The Noble Experiment"
What did the Butler Act do in Tennessee in 1925?
Outlawed alcohol
Outlawed teaching evolution in public schools
Outlawed teaching evolution in private schools
Outlawed gambling
The lawyer defending Tennessee and the Butler Act in the Scopes trial was?
William Jennings Bryan
Charles Darwin
Clarence Darrow
Aimee Semple McPherson
What were illegal places where people drank alcohol called?
speakeasies
moonshines
flappers
Harlem hotspots
Which trial saw the conflict between Modernism and Traditionalism?
Sacco and Vanzetti
Scopes Trial
Schenck v. United States
Brown v. Board of Education
What President was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal?
Wilson
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
How did strikes contribute to the Red Scare?
Strikers hated communists.
Employers hired communists to replace strikers.
Strikers were compared to communists because they were trying to demand better rights from their employers.
Everyone who went on strike was communist.
All of the following were presidents during the 1920's EXCEPT
Coolidge
Harding
Roosevelt
Hoover
The Republican leadership of the 1920's
Continued the progressive reforms of Roosevelt and Taft
Encouraged a government hands off, limited intervention to encourage the growth of business
Provided many social reform programs to encourage economic growth
Which group was least likely to be economically prosperous during the 1920's
Big Business Owners
American Farmers
Urban Americans
Organized criminals
Events leading to the point of view shown in the image include all of the following (click all that apply)
the Red Scare
Increased immigration during the Age of Industrialism
Rise of the KKK
Increased immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe
Rise of Natvisim
Americans enjoyed all of the following technological advancements during the 1920's EXCEPT
Radio
Television
Cars (Fords)
Kitchen appliances that required electricity
How did many Americans afford luxury items (cars, radios, etc) during the 1920's?
The government gave out loans
Credit. Buy now, pay later
Everyone was wealthy from World War I
Many Americans believed that Sacco and Vanzetti were executed because they were
responsible for setting off bombs that damaged A. Mitchell Palmer’s home.
Communist agitators who helped organize strikes.
subversives trying to overthrow the government.
immigrants with radical beliefs during the Red Scare.
Which of the following would have been the least likely target of the 1920s KKK in the United States?
a bootlegger
an Irish Catholic immigrant
a German Jew
an Anglo American industrialist
The amendment that caused an increase in organized crime due to the prohibiting of sale, manufacturing, transportation of alcohol.
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
16th Amendment
18th Amendment
Which president would be more likely to appoint unqualified people to important government positions?
Coolidge
Harding
Hoover
Wilson
Which president was known for his "no-nonsense" demeanor and silent personality?
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Wilson
Which president promised a "return to normalcy"?
Taft
Hoover
Harding
Coolidge
Which president was quoted, "The business of America is business"?
Harding
Coolidge
Taft
Hoover
The prosperity of the United States in the mid-1920s resulted in part from
increased demand for new consumer goods
high-wage contracts negotiated by labor unions
record-high farm prices
increased government regulation of the economy
Improved mass-production techniques affected the American economy of the 1920s by
lowering the quality of most products
reducing prices of consumer goods
decreasing the quantity of manufactured products
causing higher unemployment
A major reason for the emergence of a “consumer culture” in the 1920s was that
the Federal Government encouraged labor to unionize
advertising and installment payments encouraged buying
minimum-wage laws expanded buying power
enforcement of antitrust laws resulted in higher prices
In the United States, the decade of the 1920s was characterized by
a willingness to encourage immigration to the United States
increased consumer borrowing and spending
the active involvement of the United States in European affairs
major reforms in national labor legislation
What established federal penalties for the manufacture and sale of alcohol?
Prohibition
18th Amendment
Volstead Act
21st Amendment
Person in charge of the defense of John Scopes in the Scopes Trial
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
The nickname to the fear in America that arose a result of paranoia over communism
the socialist scare
the witch hunt
the red scare
the Russian scare
What impact did tariffs have on American farmers in the 1920s?
they lowered the international demand for American crops
they increased the international demand for American crops
they had no impact, farmers were experience the BOOM of the 1920s.
they forced farmers grow new crops desired by Europeans
Which situation below describes what happened to American farmers in the 1920s?
They underproduced, the supply went down and the demand went up and their prices rose.
They overproduced, the supply went up and the demand went down so their prices fell.
They overproduced, the supply went up and the demand went up so they made a ton of money.
They overproduced and were forced to sell to the government for cheap.
What was Greenwood's nickname?
Black Wall Street
Massacre Central
The Pride of Oklahoma
Little Tulsa
All of the following were causes of the Red Summer of 1919, EXCEPT?
Great competition for jobs
Resentment of returning African American soldiers
The Resurgence of the KKK
The legalization of lynching in the north
