WorksheetsInterwar Period
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
Which industry was Charlie Chaplin a leader in?
Radio
Television
Movie
Automobile
Which painter was known for their urban scenes, southwest landscapes, and flowers?
Langston Hughes
Jacob Lawrence
Georgia O'Keeffe
Bessie Smith
Who was an author who wrote about the jazz age?
Langston Hughes
John Steinbeck
Aaron Copland
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who was responsible for creating automobiles on a moving assembly line?
John D. Rockefeller
Louis Chevrolet
Henry Ford
Vincent Mercedes
Who was this blues singer?
Georgia O'Keeffe
Eleanor Roosevelt
Leslie Knope
Bessie Smith
Which one of these people was a jazz trumpeter?
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Jacob Lawrence
George Gershwin
Who was the President of the United States when the stock market crashed?
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
William Howard Taft
Who was the President of the United States who introduced "The New Deal?"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
What is considered the first form of modern mass media?
Television
Newspaper
Radio
Movies/Theater
What amendment banned alcohol?
18th
19th
20th
21st
What amendment made alcohol legal again?
18th
19th
20th
21st
What percent of Americans were unemployed at the height of the Great Depression?
28%
25%
14%
30%
Who was a painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration through art?
Georgia O'Keeffe
Jacob Lawrence
Aaron Copland
Louis Armstrong
Who was a poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots?
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
George Gershwin
Who was a composer known for his Rhapsody in Blue?
Aaron Copland
George Gershwin
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Who is this jazz pianist?
Louis Armstrong
Jay-Z
Duke Ellington
Aaron Copland
Who composed Fanfare for the Common Man?
Aaron Copland
George Gershwin
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
What is this appliance?
Dishwasher
Dryer
Washing Machine
Oven
What agency was created under President Roosevelt's New Deal?
Federal Labor Federation
Institute of Finance
Social Security Administration
American Federation of Labor
Who was a novelist who wrote about the strengths of migrant workers in the 1930's?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
What system provides monetary assistance to people with little or no income?
Federal Assistance Program
Social Security
Union of Worker's Rights
Internal Revenue Service
How did the new affordability of automobiles change life in America in the 1920s?
There were new jobs and greater mobility
Many people moved to the city
More transcontinental railroads were built
Pollution decreased in the cities
What group of people migrated during the great migration?
Northern African Americans
Southern African Americans
Northern Whites
Southern Whites
Which of the following was a result of Prohibition?
Fall of the stock market
Less unemployment
More jobs on farms
Growth of organized crime
A period of "rebirth" of African American art is known as the...
Harlem Revival
Harlem Renaissance
The Renaissance
Harlem Rebuilding
Where is a place that people go to buy and sell shares of companies?
The Federal Reserve
The Stock Market
The Federal Bank
The Stock Bank
Where were African Americans moving to during the Great Migration?
The north and east
The north and south
The south and west
The north and west
The Wright Brothers invented the...
The automobile
The airplane
The phone
The lightbulb
Due to improved transportation brought about by affordable automobiles, people began moving from cities to…
Rural areas
Urban areas
Suburban areas
None of the Above
What car revolutionized the car industry?
Model T
Model A
Model N
Model M
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
17th amendment
18th amendment
19th amendment
21st amendment
