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WorksheetsRoaring 20's
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which constitutional amendment banned buying, manufacturing, and distributing alcohol?
21st Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
W.E.B DuBois is best known for which of the following?
Founding the NAACP
Being a trumpet player during the Harlem Renaissance
Being an active leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Writing poetry and novels during the Harlem Renaissance
What happened when young people came back from World War I?
Equality for African Americans and Women became a priority for all.
World War II immediately began and they rejoined the army.
People were able to afford products on credit and went into debt
All of the Above
Who was originally against Women's Suffrage but eventually supported it and helped women gain the right to vote?
Woodrow Wilson
Louis Armstrong
Alice Paul
W.E.B. DuBois
Why did crime and gun violence rise during the 1920s?
People drank so much alcohol they became violent
People were upset women wanted to vote
The Mafia was creating, stealing, and selling illegal alcohol
The Harlem Renaissance caused violence
What style of dance became popular during the Roaring Twenties that originated in South Carolina?
The Tango
The Twist and Shout
The Macarena
The Charleston
Which state didn't ratify the 19th Amendment until 1969?
Virginia
Georgia
South Carolina
Washington
One of the major leaders of the women’s rights movement. She spoke at many women’s rallies and was arrested for voting illegally.
Susan B. Anthony
Alice Paul
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Billie Holiday
Which of the following people was a musician and trumpet player who famously sang "What a Wonderful World?"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Zora Neale Hurste
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
A suffragette is a term that best describes which of the following?
A woman who shows disdain for other women that want to vote
A woman who bobs her hair and wears shorter skirts who shows disdain for proper behavior
A woman who wants and supports women having the right to vote
A woman who suffers
The period of time where it was illegal to buy, manufacture, or distribute alcohol from 1920 to 1933 is known as what?
Prohibition
The Harlem Renaissance
The Great Migration
The Roaring Twenties
The time period where large amounts of African Americans moved from the South after World War I to find jobs and escape discrimination.
Harlem Renaissance
Roaring Twenties
Great Migration
Mass Exodus
People who buy and use products and services.
Mass-Consumption
Producer
Consumer
Mass-Production
This term is used to describe a generation of women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and showed disdain for “proper” behavior.
Carpetbagger
Bootlegger
Suffragette
Flappers
What is Alice Paul known for during the 1920s Era?
Her radical protests in support of Women's Suffrage and starting the Hunger Strike Protests
Leading the Mafia in Chicago and distributing alcohol
Being sued by the government for supporting women's rights
Creating the famous Charleston dance and showing it to people across the nation
Why did Prohibition end?
The mafia was so large people begged that Prohibition end
The government wanted to put a tax on alcohol because of the Great Depression
Because women gained the right to vote
Because women wanted their husbands to stop drinking
Which amendment overturned the 18th Amendment?
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
21st Amendment
