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The Roaring Twenties

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A governmental policy of interfering in economic affairs as little as possible.

a)

laissez-faire

b)

communism

c)

consumerism

2.

the word that goes best with the image

a)

stock market

b)

renaissance

c)

prohibition

3.

the act of buying goods and services.

a)

credit

b)

consumerism

c)

nativism

4.

Pedro argued that ________ could be good. He said if the government-owned factories, farms, and other means of production, the economy would be regulated and people would have steady jobs.

a)

the stock market

b)

credit

c)

communism

5.

a flourishing of Black literary and musical culture in the 1920s, with many artists, writers and music clubs centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

Red Scare

c)

Prohibition

6.

A growing sentiment of _______ led to the deportation of many eastern and southern European immigrants in the 1920s.

a)

credit

b)

laissez-faire

c)

nativism

7.

an economic and political system in which the government owns and controls all goods and means of production and private property is eliminated.

a)

nativism

b)

laissez-faire

c)

communism

8.

the policy, practice, or sentiment of favoring the interests of native-born inhabitants over those of immigrants.

a)

communism

b)

nativism

c)

credit

9.

When you spend money at the store, you're contributing to your town's

a)

economy

b)

laissez-faire

c)

communism

10.

the period from 1920 to 1933 during which a legal ban on the production, transport, sale, or possession of alcoholic beverages was in effect in the United States.

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

Red Scare

c)

Prohibition

11.

the status of being trusted to borrow money to buy something and pay it back later.

a)

nativism

b)

consumerism

c)

credit

12.

She knows that if she wants to maintain good _______, she has to pay her bills on time and manage her loans wisely.

a)

laissez-faire

b)

stock market

c)

credit

13.

an organized money system.

a)

economy

b)

credit

c)

nativism