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1920s: A Decade of Change American Republic Test Study Guide

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Invented an early form of the radio

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

2.

Used the assembly line to turn out a new car every twenty-seven seconds.

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

3.

President who vowed a "return to normalcy"

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

4.

Helped broker the Washington Naval Conference

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

5.

Virtually ran the White House along with Wilson's wife after Wilson's stroke

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

6.

An Italian Anarchist

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Nicola Sacco

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

7.

A place to buy liquor illegally

a)

Speakeasy

b)

Isolationism

c)

Flapper

d)

Prohibition

e)

Bootlegging

8.

America's basic foreign policy in the 1920s

a)

Speakeasy

b)

Isolationism

c)

Flapper

d)

Prohibition

e)

Bootlegging

9.

Woman whose behavior and dress were shocking

a)

Speakeasy

b)

Isolationism

c)

Flapper

d)

Prohibition

e)

Bootlegging

10.

Condition imposed by the Eighteenth Amendment

a)

Speakeasy

b)

Isolationism

c)

Flapper

d)

Prohibition

e)

Bootlegging

11.

Developer of the assembly line for mass production

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Charles A. Lindbergh

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

Herbert Hoover

e)

Warren G. Harding

12.

Pilot of the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Charles A. Lindbergh

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

Herbert Hoover

e)

Warren G. Harding

13.

President who said, "The chief business of the American people is business."

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Charles A. Lindbergh

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

Herbert Hoover

e)

Warren G. Harding

14.

Inheritor of the impending fall from prosperity

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Charles A. Lindbergh

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

Herbert Hoover

e)

Warren G. Harding

15.

Teapot Dome scandal

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

16.

Leader of a large crime ring in Chicago

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

17.

Co-founder of the NAACP

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

18.

Popular psychologist of this era

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

19.

Defeated Al Smith in the election of 1928

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

20.

Legal victor of the Scopes Trial

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

J. Gresham Machen

c)

William Jennings Bryan

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Marcus Garvey

21.

Fundamentalism's most respected scholar in the early twentieth century

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

J. Gresham Machen

c)

William Jennings Bryan

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Marcus Garvey

22.

Promoted Black Emigration to Africa

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

J. Gresham Machen

c)

William Jennings Bryan

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Marcus Garvey

23.

What term describes the period from 1920 to 1929?

a)

Roaring Twenties

b)

Gatsby Twenties

c)

Raging Twenties

d)

Dancing Twenties

e)

Glorious Twenties

24.

Who won the presidential election of 1920?

a)

Warren G. Harding

b)

Calvin Coolidge

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

e)

Woodrow Wilson

25.

What word best describes America's attitude toward foreign affairs in the 1920s?

a)

Exclusivism

b)

Isolationism

c)

Inclusivism

d)

Prohibitionism

e)

Bootlegginism

26.

What unrealistic agreement was made in 1928 to outlaw war and establish world peace?

a)

Washington Naval Conference

b)

Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact

c)

Locarno Pact

d)

Paris Peace Conference

e)

United Nations

27.

What caused national fear during the Red Scare?

a)

Communism

b)

Capitalism

c)

Nazism

d)

Fascism

e)

Nuclear Warfare

28.

Who was the young pilot who won fame for a flight in 1927?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Charles A. Lindbergh

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

Herbert Hoover

e)

Warren G. Harding

29.

What was the feat the made Lucky Lindy famous?

a)

First nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic

b)

First to run nonstop across continental America

c)

First to swim across the Atlantic Ocean

d)

First to sail across the Arctic Ocean

e)

First to swim across the English Channel

30.

The common use of what power source did much to revolutionize the daily life of Americans during the 1920s?

a)

Electricity

b)

Hydro

c)

Solar

d)

Steam

e)

Horse

31.

What electric communication device offered information and entertainment to millions of Americans in their own homes during the 1920s?

a)

Radio

b)

Telegraph

c)

Telephone

d)

Television

e)

Compact Disc

32.

What was the name for the women who adopted the dress and low morals of the 1920s?

a)

Speakeaser

b)

Isolationer

c)

Flapper

d)

Prohibition

e)

Bootlegger

33.

At what conference was an effort made to reduce the naval strength of the major powers?

a)

Washington Naval Conference

b)

Kellogg-Briand Naval Peace Pact

c)

Locarno Naval Pact

d)

Paris Naval Peace Conference

e)

United Naval Nations of Peace

34.

Name the famous athletes of the 1920s and the sport in which each of them participated.

a)

Babe Ruth (Baseball)

b)

Jack Dempsey (Boxing)

c)

Helen Wills (Tennis)

d)

Bobby Jones (Golf)

e)

Red Grange (Football)

35.

Which amendment established prohibition?

a)

Eighteenth Amendment

b)

Nineteenth Amendment

c)

Twentieth Amendment

d)

Seventeenth Amendment

e)

Sixteenth Amendment

36.

What were the illegal taverns of the prohibition era called?

a)

Speakeasies

b)

Isolationism

c)

Flapper

d)

Prohibition

e)

Bootlegging

37.

What term means the making and selling of illegal liquor?

a)

Speakeasy

b)

Isolationism

c)

Flapper

d)

Prohibition

e)

Bootlegging

38.

Who was the famous Chicago crime boss during the 1920s?

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Don Vito Corleone

39.

Name the writers whose work was influential in the 1920s.

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

T.S. Eliot

d)

Ernest Hemingway

e)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

40.

What particular event of the 1920s was an example of the growing scorn for Christians and Scriptural truths such as creation?

a)

Scopes Trial

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson Trial

c)

Dred Scott v. Sandford Trial

d)

Abrams v. United States Trial

e)

Buck v. Bell Trial

41.

What lawyer defended the biology teacher accused of teaching evolution in Tennessee?

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Clarence Darrow

42.

Which president was a member of the "Ohio Gang"?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

Herbert Hoover

e)

Warren G. Harding

43.

What secretary of the interior was found to be involved in scandal?

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Clarence Darrow

44.

Who succeeded to the presidency upon the death of President Harding?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

Herbert Hoover

e)

Warren G. Harding

45.

Who became president after Calvin Coolidge?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

Herbert Hoover

e)

Warren G. Harding

46.

What was the name of the agency for world revolution that tried to export communism anywhere by any method?

a)

Third International

b)

United Nations

c)

League of Nations

d)

Union of Soviet Socialist Republic

47.

What group was a negative response to the declining morality in the 1920s?

a)

Ku Klux Klan

b)

Mormons

c)

Sons of Liberty

d)

Flappers

48.

What is the name for the group of people who believe in the "fundamentals" of the Christian faith?

a)

Fundamentalists

b)

Baptists

c)

Roman Catholics

d)

Jehovahs Witness

e)

Mormons

49.

A major court case related to the Red Scare was the one involving . . .

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Guglielmo Marconi

c)

Sacco and Vanzetti

d)

John Scopes

e)

Bruce Barton

50.

In the 1920s, which one of the following items probably did the most to break down some of the regional characteristics of Americans and form a more unified culture across the nation?

a)

Electric light

b)

Phonograph

c)

Radio

d)

Telephone

e)

Television

51.

What is the name for a system that allows a person to pay for an item in weekly or monthly payments?

a)

Installment Plan

b)

Loan Plan

c)

Pension Plan

d)

Leasing Plan

e)

Fundamental Plan

52.

Who was President Harding's secretary of state?

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Charles Evans Hughes

d)

Nicola Sacco

e)

Bruce Barton

53.

The author of the book The Man Nobody Knows was . . .

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Bruce Barton

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

Warren G. Harding

e)

Nicola Sacco

54.

Which one of the following is not necessarily associated with the intentions or results of the Eighteenth Amendment?

a)

Bootlegging

b)

Flappers

c)

Prohibition

d)

Speakeasies

55.

The people of the 1920s generally had an interest in all the following topics or issues except . . .

a)

sensational stories of human drama

b)

biblical Christianity and moral values

c)

silent movies and their stars

d)

sports and sports figures

56.

Who received the burnt of much ridicule at the Scopes trial for his defense of biblical creation?

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

Calvin Coolidge

c)

Albert B. Fall

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Bruce Barton

57.

Who promised a "return to normalcy" after the war?

a)

Calvin Coolidge

b)

Warren G. Harding

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Woodrow Wilson

e)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

58.

All of the following conditions were present in the mid-1920s except . . .

a)

excessive purchases on credit

b)

climbing prices on the stock market

c)

a lack of adequate food production on farms

d)

a great desire for law and order

59.

Albert B. Fall was infamous for his part in . . .

a)

Chicago's bootlegging ring

b)

the Red Scare

c)

the Sacco and Vanzetti affair

d)

the Teapot Dome scandal

60.

Who won the presidential election of 1928?

a)

Calvin Coolidge

b)

Warren G. Harding

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Woodrow Wilson

e)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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