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Worksheets1920s Review
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 32mins
Disarmament means a............
Program in which nations voluntarily give up their weapons
Period of intense fear of communism and other extreme ideas
Policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries
Set of religious beliefs including traditional Christian ideas about Jesus Christ. The belief that the Bible is literally true
Official ideology of the Soviet Union, characterized there by complete government ownership of land/property and a lack of individual rights.
Socialism
Democratic Communism
Democratic Socialism
Communism
Agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to use war in their dealings with one another.
Wilson-Roosevelt Pact
Treaty of Paris
Kellog-Briand Pact
Disarmament
Print and broadcast methods of communicating info to a lot of people
Mass Information
Mass Media
Speakeasy
Consumer Economy
A period of intense fear of communism and other extreme ideas
Red Scare
White Scare
Mass Media
Russian Scare
Statistics that describe a population, such as data on race or income
Fundamentalism
Socialism
Demographics
Who would have been the most likely to attend a speakeasy?
Flapper
Conservative
Fundamentalist
Herbert Hoover
The Scopes Trial focused on the teaching of _______________ in public schools
Health
Ethics
Evolution
Nativism
The passage of the 18th amendment led to:
The creation of speakeasies
Police corruption
An increase in organized crimes (gangs)
All of the above
Which individual or group best relates to the Red Scare?
A. Mitchell Palmer
Albert B. Fall
Clarence Darrow
The Ohio Gang
Sacco and Vanzetti were?
Communists who were deported to Italy.
Falsely accused of murder
A comedy team with a hit radio show.
Famous New York Yankee outfielders
What eventually happened to Sacco and Vanzetti?
Deported back to Italy
Set free
Executed by the electric chair
Sent to jail for 38 years
Policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries.
Isolationism
Communism
Socialism
Disarmament
Set of religious beliefs including traditional Christian ideas about Jesus Christ. The belief that the Bible is literally true
Denomination
Christianity
Fundamentalism
Isolationism
A new type of woman: young, rebellious, fun loving, and bold.
Suffragist
Bootlegger
Speakeasy
Flapper
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Happened during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil drilling rights on government land in return for money.
Happened during the Coolidge administration involving the granting of oil drilling rights on government land in return for money.
Happened during the Hoover administration involving the granting of oil drilling rights on government land in return for money.
Happened during the Wilson administration involving the granting of oil drilling rights on government land in return for money.
What is an installment plan?
A place where alcoholic drinks were served illegally
A plan that allows people to participate in the stock exchange.
A system that lets customers make partial payments at set intervals over a period of time
A plan that allows countries to slowly build up their military.
What is a Consumer economy?
An economy that lets customers make partial payments at set intervals over a period of time
An enconomy that favors saving money.
The primary economy of the 1800s
An economy that depends on a large amount of buying by individuals
African-American literary awakening of the 1920s.
The Southern Renaissance
New York Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
The Northen Renaissance
A Bootlegger is a ........
A supplier of illegal alcohol
Term used to describe the 1920s
A supplier of illegal drugs
A supplier of Christian literature
Term used to describe the 1920s
Jazz Age
Roaring 1900s
The Money Age
Bootlegger Age
A place where alcoholic drinks were served illegally
Local bar
flapper
bootlegger
speakeasy
1920s fundamentalists believed:
Evolution and fundamentalism could work together
Science explained man's origin
The nation needed to become more liberal
The bible should be taken literally
This president was plagued by major corruption scandals in his administration
Harding
Hoover
Coolidge
Wilson
Ford did all of the following except for:
Used the assembly line
Stated his love for history
Invented the “quadricycle”
Paid workers $5-a-day
Women made this fashion change during the 1920s
Short hair
Tight-fitting hats
Began wearing makeup
All of the above
None of the above
Before 1927, movies were _______________.
In color
made with music only
made with sound
silent
_______________________ is considered to be the king of jazz.
Elvis Presley
Ernest Hemingway
Duke Ellington
Langston Hughes
During the summer of 1919 race riots erupted in about 25 cities nationwide. This summer became known as the ________________________.
Red Summer
White Summer
Black Summer
Green Summer
A group of writers during the 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked morals.
The Lost Writers
The Lost Generation
The Renaissance Writers
The Flapper Generation
A barrio is a __________________________.
English-speaking neighborhood
A suburb of Los Angelas
A suburb of Hollywood
Spanish-speaking neighborhood
Why did the number of European immigrants drop in 1925?
Congress passed laws restricting immigration from Europe
Interest in living in America declined
There was no room in American cities for more immigrants
There were fewer immigrants due to WWI
Why did the United States limit the number of immigrants coming from eastern and southern Europe?
The United States wanted to bring in more immigrants from places like Australia and China.
The U.S. was concerned with immigrants coming from unstable parts of Europe where they might hold dangerous political ideas
They were not as educated as immigrants from the western part of Europe
Those countries were dealing with the Spanish flu
Numerical limits called ________________ were set up as a way to control how many immigrants made it into the U.S.
Barrios
Quotas
Suburbs
Demographics
What scandal marked Harding's presidency?
Teapot Dome Scandal
Watergate Scandal
Iran-Contra Affair
XYZ Affair
Who became president after Harding's death?
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Abraham Lincoln
Barack Obama
What industry expanded as a result of the assembly line?
Automobiles
Banking
Textiles
Agriculture
The author of "The Great Gatsby"
Louis Armstrong
Zora Neal Hurston
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Marcus Garvey
There was severe social and judicial bias against immigrants in the United States as shown during the case of:
Albert B Fall
Sacco & Vanzetti
Warren G Harding
Marcus Garvey
The 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment because people
opposed income tax
wanted Civil Rights for women
opposed the prohibition of alcohol
supported the prohibition of alcohol
This jazz musician grew famous in the 1920s
Josephine Baker
Marcus Garvey
Louis Armstrong
Niccola Sacco
Marcus Garvey was a civil rights activist that led
the NAACP
Back to Africa campaign
the March on Washington
the KKK rally in Washington DC
Assembly lines were improved
so workers could focus on a specific task
so that companies don't have to pay overtime
so that workers could learn all parts of the product
so that workers could show off their skills
In the 1920s Americans consumers began to do which of the following?
sewing clothes
recycling goods
buying on credit
work from home
WWI job openings, Jim Crow Laws, and an increase in racial violence in the South were all contributing factors to which of the following?
Great Migration
Growth of the KKK
Passing the 18th Amendment
The Red Scare
What made the Model-T a popular automobile in the 1920s?
Its sleek design
Its speed
It was affordable to most Americans
It never needed serviced
