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WorksheetsThe Roaring 20s
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 10mins
A motion picture with sound.
Talkie
Soundie
Singie
Hearie
Name given to the 1920s due to the popularity of jazz music.
Prohibition Age
Guilded Age
Jazz Age
Blues Age
Period of African American artistic accomplishment in New York City.
Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Renaissance
Expatriates Renaissance
Poet and writer who wrote about African American life.
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Ernest Hemingway
Georgia O'Keeffe
Writers in the 1920s who criticized American society.
Unknown Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Lost Generation
Jazz Generation
People who live outside their home country.
Expatriates
Patriates
Expeditionaries
World Travelers
Innovative artist famous for her detailed drawings of flowers.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pablo Picasso
Chales Lindbergh
Langston Hughes
Young women in the 1920s who challenged traditional women's roles.
Fundamentalist
Flappers
Prohibitionists
Expatriates
Period of fear of Communists and radicals in the United States.
Great Migration
Red Scare
Cuban Missle Crisis
Teapot Dome
The constitutional amendment that repealed prohibition.
18th
20th
21st
1st
Religious belief in a word-for-word interpretation of the Bible.
Liberalism
Fundamentalism
Orthodoxy
Protestantism
The major trial that centered around a teacher teaching evolution in school.
Scopes Trial
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
Fundamentalism Trial
Capone Trial
The movement of African Americans to northern cities.
Great Depression
Harlem Renaissance
Expatiates
Great Migration
Black leader who encouraged black people to express pride in their culture.
Marcus Garvey
Duke Ellington
Langston Hughes
W.E.B. DuBois
Republican president from Ohio elected in 1920.
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Man who became president when Warren G. Harding died; reelected to office in 1924.
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
President elected in 1928 with promises for more prosperity.
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Government scandal that centered around the acceptance of bribes by Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall in exchange for control of government oil reserves.
Watergate Scandal
Iran-Contra Affair
The Eaton Affair
Teapot Dome Scandal
An unenforceable agreement among 62 nations to outlaw war.
Treaty of Paris
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Post-Fruit Loops Pact
Treaty of Versailles
A low-cost automobile invented by Ford.
Model T
Mustang
Model A
Model U
Production system that moves parts between groups of workers.
Mechanization
Assembly Line
Computerization
Feudal System
Who was at the center of the Teapot Dome scandal for accepting bribes from private oil companies?
Warren G. Harding
John Scopes
Albert Fall
Calvin Coolidge
How did Calvin Coolidge's policies differ from Warren G. Harding's?
He was more pro-war
He was more probusiness
He was anti-prohibition
He was more pro-immigration
What made the Model T important was NOT that is was a car -- but that it was a car that was what?
Affordable
Reliable
Luxurious
Plain
With the wide use of electricity and new home appliances, many Americans were given what?
Time
Bread
Land
Education
Herbert Hoover ran for president promising to continue what?
Expansion
Prosperity
Lawlessness
Normalcy
Who were the Italian anarchist convicted of murdering two people?
Sacco & Vanzetti
Manzetti & Primo
Corleone & Hoffa
Dominos & Papa John
Act that limited total number of immigrants allowed into the country.
Emergency Quota Act
Prohibition Act
National Origins Act
Appropriations Act
Act that banned immigration from East Asia entirely.
Emergency Quota Act
Prohibition Act
National Origins Act
Appropriations Act
The constitutional amendment that made the creation, distribution and manufacturing of alcohol illegal.
18th
20th
21st
1st
Time period where the creation, distribution and manufacturing of alcohol illegal.
Prohibition
Guilded Age
Progressive Era
Post-War Era
Organization that helped Hispanic Americans organize to fight prejudice and promote civil rights
League of United Latin American Citizens
Indian Citizenship Act
NAACP
NCAA
Act that allowed Native Americans to become US citizens.
League of United Latin American Citizens
Indian Citizenship Act
NAACP
NCAA
What invention gave Americans a widespread common national exerpience
Automobile
Radio
The Wheel
Electricity
What was the first talking movie?
Wings
The Jazz Singer
Broadway Melody 1928
Separation
Man who completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean traveling from New York to Paris.
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
The Red Baron
Neil Armstrong
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
The Red Baron
Neil Armstrong
What style of music dominated the 1920s
Jazz
Grunge
Disco
Rock
Who was the most famous Jazz artist of the age?
Louis Armstrong
Kirk Cobain
Ella Fitzgerald
Neil Armstrong
Style of music that began in the Mississippi delta as an expression of suffering of African-Americans during slavery.
Jazz
Blues
Disco
Rock
Member of the Lost Generation of writers who was a volunteer ambulance worker during WWI, he used this experience in his writing which was direct and expressed the un-pretty things of American society.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Member of the Lost Generation of writers who wrote the most famous novel of the Jazz Age, which focused on the loss of morality and fun times of the Jazz Age.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
The most famous novel of the Jazz Age, which focused on the loss of morality and fun times of the Jazz Age.
The Great Gatsby
For Whom the Bells Tolled
Mrs. Dalloway
The Age of Innocence
Georgia O'Keeffe is most know for painting what?
Landscapes
Architecture
People
Flowers
What architecture style is most associated with the 1920s?
Gothic
Mid-Century Modern
Postmodern
Art Deco
What were types of radio broadcasts in the 1920s (check all that apply)?
Bedtime Stories
Sports Broadcasts
Political Speeches
Cooking Shows
Why did people support prohibition (check all that apply)?
Thought it would strengthen families -- cut down on abuse.
Thought it would reduce crime.
Thought it would cause people to buy other items other than alcohol.
Thought is would make people want to pursue different jobs.
Why were people afraid of immigrants in the 1920s (check all that apply)?
Americans were afraid they would bring Communism.
Americans were afraid they would take their jobs.
Americans were afraid they would change American culture.
Americans were afraid of foreign food.
Warren G. Harding ran for president on what promise?
Return to normalcy
Tax the rich
Bring back jobs
No new taxes
What things did the affordable automobile add to American life (check all that apply)?
The suburbs
Gas stations
Added freedom
Dance Crazes
Babe Ruth was a 1920s star in what occupation?
Movies
Aviation
Horse Racing
Baseball
