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WorksheetsThe Twenties
Total questions: 129
Worksheet time: 2hrs 31mins
What caused the stock market to crash in 1929 which ended the The Roaring Twenties and kicked off the Great Depression?
Buying stocks on margin
easy bank loans
easy credit terms to buy consumer goods
all of these
What was a bootlegger?
Criminals who brought clothing made in other countries into the U.S.
Criminals who brought guns made in other countries into the U.S.
Criminal who sold alcohol illegally in the United States to make a profit
Criminals who immigrated to the U.S.
What name was given to the great achievements in art and learning by African Americans during the 1920's?
The Roaring 20s
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Harlem Renaissance
Scopes Trial
He was the US President when the stock market crashed in 1929:
Hoover
McKinley
Coolidge
Roosevelt
Forbid (banned) the manufacture, transportation & sale of intoxicating liquors in the US.
Prohibition
Great Migration
Fundamentalism
Great Depression
This person helped increase interest in airplanes and air travel with their first flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
Langston Hughes
John Scopes
Henry Ford
Illegal bars during Prohibition were called:
Pubs
Dives
Speakeasies
Biker Bars
Which event is credited with starting the Great Depression
The election of Herbert Hoover as president
The increased spending of the U.S. government
the Stock Market Crash of 1929
The U.S. involvement in World War II
Many writers of the 1920s were called the ____ Generation.
Confused
Second
Illiterate
Lost
______ revolutionized the auto industry by lowering prices and raising wages so that almost all families could afford a car by the 1920's
Henry Ford
Louis Chevrolet
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
______ was the dominant civil rights leader of the 1920's. He was militaristic and radically rejected lack of equality by proposing a migration to Africa, but was imprisoned and deported.
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. DuBois
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
The _______ Scandal, in which oil companies illegal drilled oil from public lands, illustrates the return of laissez-faire during the Harding administration and the 1920's.
Teapot Dome
Watergate
Credit Mobilier
Whiskey Ring
_______ illustrate the anti-immigration feelings of the 1920's because they were executed for a robbery on very, very thin evidence.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Laurel and Hardy
Rogers and Hammerstein
The Howard Brothers
How was Henry Ford able to reduce the sale price of the Model T?
with the use of the assembly line
changing locations
importing all raw materials
increasing the wages of his workers
Which of the following was the most popular and trendy music of the 1920's?
Jazz
Blues
Country
Pop
What did the Eighteenth Amendment state?
This amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol.
This amendment outlawed the advertisement of cigars
This amendment changed the age a person had to be to buy alcohol.
This reversed prohibition.
This would inevitably increase the amount of debt people would incur due to the use of Credit. This new method of purchasing items due to advertisements would be called_________________________.
consumerism
national debt
immigration
education
Which of these best describes the "New Woman" of the 1920s?
They wore shorter skirts, bobbed their hair, and went to speakeasies
They stayed home and cooked and cleaned
They rejected the idea of suffrage
They preferred the same fashions as their parents
Period in the 1920s when suspected communists and other radicals were arrested due to the fear of the spread of communism.
Red Scare
Teapot Dome Scandal
Scopes Trial
KKK
How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?
by making it easier for bootleggers to branch into other types of illegal activity
by forcing police to enforce anti liquor laws
by forcing farmers to grow grain for the production of alcohol
by strengthening respect for the law
What was the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s?
a program of urban renewal among various ethnic groups begun in New York City
a period of musical, artistic, and literary productivity among African Americans in New York City
the integration of African Americans into colleges and universities throughout the nation
a set of political reforms and social programs supported by African American politicians in New York City
This was the name for people who illegally sold and distributed alcohol.
Rumrunners
Distillers
Bootleggers
Muckrakers
When Hoover took office in 1929, most Americans expected
prosperity to continue.
a depression or some other disaster.
more bank failures.
to become millionaires.
