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Roaring 20s

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the root of most societal issues of the 1920s?

a)

Politics

b)

Nativism

c)

Job Competition

d)

World War I

2.

What were young women who wore short haircuts and more revealing clothes in the 1920s called?

a)

Suffragettes

b)

Daughters of Liberty

c)

Flappers

d)

Anarchists

3.

What President had a corrupt-ridden administration at the start of the 1920s?

a)

Coolidge

b)

Roosevelt

c)

Wilson

d)

Harding

4.

What natural resource was involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal?

a)

Coal

b)

Oil

c)

Timber

d)

Steel

5.

What Civil Rights leader of the 20s believed in a separatist approach to race relations?

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

William DuBois

c)

Booket T. Washington

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

6.

What radical group in the 1920s used violence to create change?

a)

Pacifists

b)

Socialists

c)

Nativists

d)

Anarchists

7.

What were secret underground nightclubs called during Prohibition?

a)

Bars

b)

Speakeasys

c)

Anarchism

d)

Taverns

8.

What trial pitted science versus religion in the 1920s?

a)

Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

b)

The Scopes Trial

c)

The Teapot Dome Trial

d)

The Garvey Trial

9.

True or False: The Government supported labor strikes in the 1920s.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

What was the name of the U.S. Attorney General that had his house bombed by anarchists?

a)

Warren Harding

b)

A. Mitchell Palmer

c)

Albert Fall

d)

Calvin Coolidge

11.

What famous financial area in New York was car bombed in the early 1920s?

a)

Pennsylvania Avenue

b)

Main Street

c)

Broadway Avenue

d)

Wall Street

12.

What activity saw radicals being rounded up all over America by government agents in the early 1920s?

a)

Palmer Raids

b)

Sedition Act

c)

Espionage Acts

d)

Coolidge Raids

13.

What lawyer represented the defendant in the Scopes Trial?

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

Waren Harding

c)

Albert Fall

d)

Clarence Darrow

14.

What lawyer argued for the prosecution in the Scopes Trial?

a)

Albert Fall

b)

Clarence Darrow

c)

William Jennings Bryan

d)

Warren Harding

15.

What subject did John Scopes teach?

a)

Math

b)

Science

c)

History

d)

English

16.

What racial ideology did Marcus Garvey support?

a)

Integration

b)

Segregation

c)

Separatism

d)

Navitism

17.

What radical group created the "Red Scare" in the 1920s?

a)

Pacifists

b)

Anarchists

c)

Communists

d)

Nativists

18.

What group got stereotyped as being "extremist or radical" in the 1920s?

a)

Immigrants

b)

Women

c)

Minorities

d)

Nativists

19.

What group was NOT a target of the Ku Klux Klan's racial discrimination?

a)

African Americans

b)

Women

c)

Catholics

d)

Immigrants

20.

What happened 53 times in the United States during the year 1920?

a)

Labor Strikes

b)

Lynchings

c)

Women's Marches

d)

Political Scandals