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US History The Roaring Twenties

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The time period in American History

were alcohol is banned by federal law for 13 years

for everyone, including adults. (1920-1933)

a)

Progressive Movement

b)

Prohibition

c)

Abolition

d)

The Gentlemen's Agreement

2.

Which Constitutional amendment

banned alcohol in 1920?

a)

18th amendment

b)

19th amendment

c)

20th amendment

d)

21st amendment

3.

The most infamous gangster of the 1920's,

know by many as "Scarface".

a)

Al Capone

b)

Billy Krystal

c)

Machine Gun Kelly

d)

Bugs Moran

4.

John Scopes,a high school teacher,

was arrested for teaching what?

a)

The Theory of Evolution

b)

Sex Education

c)

Driver's Education

d)

Religion

5.

The belief that holy books say exactly what they mean

and can not be interpreted.

a)

Fundamentalism

b)

Evolution

c)

Anarchy

d)

E=MC2

6.

A free-thinking young women who

embraced the new fashions & urban attitudes of the 1920's.

a)

Flapper

b)

Feminist

c)

Suffragist

d)

Anarchist

7.

Who was the American pilot that was the 1st person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean & land in Paris, France 33 hours later?

a)

Amelia Earhardt

b)

Howard Hughes

c)

Charles Lindbergh

d)

Charlie Chaplin

8.

The movement that celebrated African American culture

through art, music & literature in the 1920's.

a)

The Italian Renascence

b)

The Great Migration

c)

The Social Gospel Movement

d)

The Harlem Renaissance

9.

One of the most famous musicians in Jazz music,

who had a distinctive voice, played the trumpet, & was nicknamed "Satchmo".

a)

Lance Armstrong

b)

Louie Armstrong

c)

Neil Armstrong

d)

Zora Neil Hurston

10.

Where would you most likely finda large percentage of people who opposed science, drinking, smoking, cussing, & having premarital sex

in the 1920's

a)

Urban Areas

b)

Suburban areas

c)

Rural Areas

d)

All of the above?

11.

Which Constitutional amendment ended Prohibition?

a)

16th amendment

b)

18th amendment

c)

21st amendment

d)

22nd amendment

12.

Who was the famous ACLU lawyer who defended John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial"?

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

Johnny Cochran

c)

Clarence Darrow

d)

Chris Darden

13.

Prohibition led to the growth of ...

a)

Organized crime

b)

the automotive industry

c)

educational reform

d)

Uber Eats

14.

One set of expectations /rules for men, and a different, stricter set for women.

a)

Standard Procedure

b)

Double Vision

c)

Original Standard

d)

Double Standard

15.

Section of New York City '

with so many African Americans,

some referred to it as

the capitol of black America.


Focal point of the boom of

African American music, art, & literature.

a)

Manhattan

b)

Staten Island

c)

Brooklyn

d)

Harlem

16.

Movement of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural south to the Northeast and the West.

a)

The Great Migration

b)

The Exodus

c)

The Diaspora

d)

Red Summer