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Interwar Period

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which industry was Charlie Chaplin a leader in?

a)

Radio

b)

Television

c)

Movie

d)

Automobile

2.

Which painter was known for their urban scenes, southwest landscapes, and flowers?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Jacob Lawrence

c)

Georgia O'Keeffe

d)

Bessie Smith

3.

Who was an author who wrote about the jazz age?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

John Steinbeck

c)

Aaron Copland

d)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

4.

Who was responsible for creating automobiles on a moving assembly line?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Louis Chevrolet

c)

Henry Ford

d)

Vincent Mercedes

5.

Who was this blues singer?

a)

Georgia O'Keeffe

b)

Eleanor Roosevelt

c)

Leslie Knope

d)

Bessie Smith

6.

Which one of these people was a jazz trumpeter?

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Jacob Lawrence

d)

George Gershwin

7.

Who was the President of the United States when the stock market crashed?

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Calvin Coolidge

d)

William Howard Taft

8.

Who was the President of the United States who introduced "The New Deal?"

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

Woodrow Wilson

9.

What is considered the first form of modern mass media?

a)

Television

b)

Newspaper

c)

Radio

d)

Movies/Theater

10.

What amendment banned alcohol?

a)

18th

b)

19th

c)

20th

d)

21st

11.

What amendment made alcohol legal again?

a)

18th

b)

19th

c)

20th

d)

21st

12.

What percent of Americans were unemployed at the height of the Great Depression?

a)

28%

b)

25%

c)

14%

d)

30%

13.

Who was a painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration through art?

a)

Georgia O'Keeffe

b)

Jacob Lawrence

c)

Aaron Copland

d)

Louis Armstrong

14.

Who was a poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots?

a)

John Steinbeck

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

Langston Hughes

d)

George Gershwin

15.

Who was a composer known for his Rhapsody in Blue?

a)

Aaron Copland

b)

George Gershwin

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

Duke Ellington

16.

Who is this jazz pianist?

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Jay-Z

c)

Duke Ellington

d)

Aaron Copland

17.

Who composed Fanfare for the Common Man?

a)

Aaron Copland

b)

George Gershwin

c)

Duke Ellington

d)

Bessie Smith

18.

What is this appliance?

a)

Dishwasher

b)

Dryer

c)

Washing Machine

d)

Oven

19.

What agency was created under President Roosevelt's New Deal?

a)

Federal Labor Federation

b)

Institute of Finance

c)

Social Security Administration

d)

American Federation of Labor

20.

Who was a novelist who wrote about the strengths of migrant workers in the 1930's?

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

John Steinbeck

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

Langston Hughes

21.

What system provides monetary assistance to people with little or no income?

a)

Federal Assistance Program

b)

Social Security

c)

Union of Worker's Rights

d)

Internal Revenue Service

22.

How did the new affordability of automobiles change life in America in the 1920s?

a)

There were new jobs and greater mobility

b)

Many people moved to the city

c)

More transcontinental railroads were built

d)

Pollution decreased in the cities

23.

What group of people migrated during the great migration?

a)

Northern African Americans

b)

Southern African Americans

c)

Northern Whites

d)

Southern Whites

24.

Which of the following was a result of Prohibition?

a)

Fall of the stock market

b)

Less unemployment

c)

More jobs on farms

d)

Growth of organized crime

25.

A period of "rebirth" of African American art is known as the...

a)

Harlem Revival

b)

Harlem Renaissance

c)

The Renaissance

d)

Harlem Rebuilding

26.

Where is a place that people go to buy and sell shares of companies?

a)

The Federal Reserve

b)

The Stock Market

c)

The Federal Bank

d)

The Stock Bank

27.

Where were African Americans moving to during the Great Migration?

a)

The north and east

b)

The north and south

c)

The south and west

d)

The north and west

28.

The Wright Brothers invented the...

a)

The automobile

b)

The airplane

c)

The phone

d)

The lightbulb

29.

Due to improved transportation brought about by affordable automobiles, people began moving from cities to…

a)

Rural areas

b)

Urban areas

c)

Suburban areas

d)

None of the Above

30.

What car revolutionized the car industry?

a)

Model T

b)

Model A

c)

Model N

d)

Model M

31.

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

a)

17th amendment

b)

18th amendment

c)

19th amendment

d)

21st amendment