WorksheetsVocabulary/facts you should know about the 1920's
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
What were young women called who were known for having energetic freedom and embracing a foreign lifestyle?
Sheik
Flappers
Bootleggers
immigrants
Smuggling/trafficking liquor is known as...
Wets
Anti-saloon league
moonshiners
Bootlegging
Who made the moving assembly line popular?
Karl Benz
Duryea Brothers
Henry Ford
Adolf Hitler
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?
Little House on K Street Scandal
The Watergate Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Harding Administration Scandal
Select the following that became popular in the 1920's.
Cars
Drive- in movies
Radios
Long dresses
What Act supported prenatal and infant safety?
Sheppard-Towner act
The 19th Amendment
Volstead act
Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA)
What genre of music became popular in the 1920's?
Pop
Rock and roll
Jazz
Country
Who became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Wright brothers
Bessie Coleman
What generation reached maturity during and just after WWI?
The Greatest generation
Millennial's
The Lost generation
The Silent generation
What is the banning of manufacturing, and selling alcohol?
Bootlegging
Speakeasy
Prohibition
interdiction
African Americans fleeing the Jim crow laws of the south to the north is called what?
Immigration
The Great migration
Old migration
New migration
What is a strict adherence to basic principles of discipline.
Fundamentalism
Social Darwinism
secularism
anti-Semitism
What ultimately put an end to the Ku Klux Klan?
Anti- masking regulation
Anti- Defamation league
The Grand Dragon
The Great depression
How did Coolidge and Hover attract many voted of the american people?
A promise to return to normalcy
Coolidge eliminated the taint of scandal that Harding brought to the White house
Coolidge did not run in the 1928 election
Harding was able to work with Germany and Austria to secure formal peace
Prohibition led to a rise in crime. Who ran an extensive bootlegging and criminal operation known as the Chicago outfit or Chicago mafia?
Johnny Torrio
Al Capone
Frank Costello
Angelo Bruno
