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Vocabulary/facts you should know about the 1920's

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were young women called who were known for having energetic freedom and embracing a foreign lifestyle?

a)

Sheik

b)

Flappers

c)

Bootleggers

d)

immigrants

2.

Smuggling/trafficking liquor is known as...

a)

Wets

b)

Anti-saloon league

c)

moonshiners

d)

Bootlegging

3.

Who made the moving assembly line popular?

a)

Karl Benz

b)

Duryea Brothers

c)

Henry Ford

d)

Adolf Hitler

4.

Albert B. Fall was fined and sentenced to a year in prison due to taking a bribe from the oil companies which is known as what?

a)

Little House on K Street Scandal

b)

The Watergate Scandal

c)

Teapot Dome Scandal

d)

The Harding Administration Scandal

5.

Select the following that became popular in the 1920's.

a)

Cars

b)

Drive- in movies

c)

Radios

d)

Long dresses

6.

What Act supported prenatal and infant safety?

a)

Sheppard-Towner act

b)

The 19th Amendment

c)

Volstead act

d)

Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA)

7.

What genre of music became popular in the 1920's?

a)

Pop

b)

Rock and roll

c)

Jazz

d)

Country

8.

Who became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

a)

Charles Lindbergh

b)

Amelia Earhart

c)

Wright brothers

d)

Bessie Coleman

9.

What generation reached maturity during and just after WWI?

a)

The Greatest generation

b)

Millennial's

c)

The Lost generation

d)

The Silent generation

10.

What is the banning of manufacturing, and selling alcohol?

a)

Bootlegging

b)

Speakeasy

c)

Prohibition

d)

interdiction

11.

African Americans fleeing the Jim crow laws of the south to the north is called what?

a)

Immigration

b)

The Great migration

c)

Old migration

d)

New migration

12.

What is a strict adherence to basic principles of discipline.

a)

Fundamentalism

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

secularism

d)

anti-Semitism

13.

What ultimately put an end to the Ku Klux Klan?

a)

Anti- masking regulation

b)

Anti- Defamation league

c)

The Grand Dragon

d)

The Great depression

14.

How did Coolidge and Hover attract many voted of the american people?

a)

A promise to return to normalcy

b)

Coolidge eliminated the taint of scandal that Harding brought to the White house

c)

Coolidge did not run in the 1928 election

d)

Harding was able to work with Germany and Austria to secure formal peace

15.

Prohibition led to a rise in crime. Who ran an extensive bootlegging and criminal operation known as the Chicago outfit or Chicago mafia?

a)

Johnny Torrio

b)

Al Capone

c)

Frank Costello

d)

Angelo Bruno