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Roaring 20s?

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why was the 1920s said to be 'roaring' in the USA?

a)

More cars meant loud traffic noise

b)

Planes taking off and landing created this noise

c)

More jobs, more money, more consumer goods for many

d)

They imported a lot of tigers

2.

What was the name given to the group of women who wore shorter dresses, drank alcohol, smoke and were more sexually permissive in the 1920s?

a)

clapper girls

b)

dapper girls

c)

flapper girls

d)

tapper girls

3.

What was prohibition?

a)

Allowing more freedom for women

b)

Only white people were allowed in certain places

c)

Alcohol was banned

d)

Mass arrests of criminals

4.

Prohibition made lots of money for...

a)

Gangsters

b)

Government

c)

Grape growers

d)

Police

5.

Which city was famous for its mobster Al Capone?

a)

Chicago

b)

Los Angeles

c)

New York

d)

Washington DC

6.

Who invented the production line method of manufacturing?

a)

Al Capone

b)

Henry Ford

c)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

d)

Warren Harding

7.

What was the name of the car that was made on the first production lines?

a)

Model B Chevvy

b)

Model D Volvo

c)

Model E Jeep

d)

Model T Ford

8.

What effect did production lines have on manufacturing (making) goods? Tick all that apply.

a)

They were cheaper to make

b)

They were quicker to make

c)

The workers were more highly skilled

d)

More people could afford them

9.

Which invention meant news and culture spread more quickly around the country?

a)

cars

b)

planes

c)

radios

d)

refrigerators

10.

In which year were all women given the right to vote in the USA?

a)

1920

b)

1922

c)

1926

d)

1929

11.

J (a)   music was extremely popular in the 1920s.

12.

Which group increased its membership in the 1920s?

a)

The Beach Boys

b)

The Republicans

c)

The Ku Klux Klan

d)

The Cajuns

13.

Who did typically not experience 'roaring' 20s? Click all that apply.

a)

Lower classes and poor people

b)

Black people

c)

Gangsters

d)

Farm workers

14.

Which event signalled the end of the 'roaring 20s?'

a)

Election of Adolf Hitler

b)

Greenwood massacre

c)

St Valentine's Day Massacre

d)

Wall Street Crash

15.

What was the Wall Street Crash?

a)

A big car crash

b)

Crash of the first passenger plane

c)

Sudden drop in the value of the stock market

d)

A big flood