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1920s quiz 1 review

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is a characteristic of daily life in the 1920s?

a)

Many Americans lost all of their money in the Stock Market

b)

Many Americans did not have jobs and there were failed banks and businesses

c)

Many Americans experienced an economic boom, furthered by new technologies

d)

All Americans experienced an economic boom, furthered by new technologies

2.

According to the map, where were African Americans migrating from?

a)

The East

b)

The North

c)

The South

d)

The Midwest

3.

According to the map, where were African Americans migrating to?

a)

The East

b)

The North

c)

The South

d)

The Midwest

4.

What positive effect did the migration north have on African Americans? (5-4.1)

a)

Segregation

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

New job opportunities

d)

New sharecropping opportunities

5.

Which group targeted African Americans, immigrants, Catholics and Jews?

a)

Ku Klux Klan

b)

Flappers

c)

Gangsters

d)

Fundamentalists

6.
Which amendment started Prohibition?
a)
18th
b)
19th
c)
20th
d)
21st
7.

A major result of Prohibition during the 1920s was

a)

increased restrictions on immigration

b)

spread of communism

c)

destruction of family values

d)

rise of organized crime

8.
These people made and smuggled alcohol illegally, they often put bottles in their boots. 
a)
Bootleggers
b)
Bootarmers
c)
Leg Booters
d)
Reform
9.
This was a period in time when African American artists developed during the 1920s and the 1930s in New York City. 
a)
Harlem Renaissance 
b)
Prohibition
c)
New York City Parade
d)
Stone Age
10.

Bars that sold illegal alcohol during the 1920's were called

a)

bootlegging establishments

b)

speakeasies

c)

vamps

d)

flappers

11.

Group of people that didn't prosper from 1920s prosperity was

a)

farmers

b)

industry owners

12.

Which best describes a flapper

a)

short hair, short skirts, drinking, smoking, driving cars and promiscuous

b)

short hair, short skirts and good morals

13.
What did the Twenty-first Amendment do?
a)
It stopped speakeasies
b)
It ended Prohibition
c)
It arrested bootleggers
14.

What is the significance of the 19th Amendment? (5-4.1)

a)

Women became citizens

b)

African Americans became citizens

c)

Women were granted the right to vote

d)

African Americans were granted the right to vote

15.
When African Americans began to move from the rural South to the urban North, this was called what?
a)
The Great Awakening
b)
The Great Migration
c)
The Great Pumpkin
d)
The Trail of Tears
16.

Which scandal saw a President's Cabinet member jailed for corruption? 

a)

Zimmerman Telegram

b)
Teapot Dome
c)
Tweed Ring
d)
Court-Packing Scheme
17.
Who used the assembly line to mass produce automobiles? 
a)
Glenn Curtis
b)
Thomas Edision
c)
Henry Ford
d)
John Rockerfeller 
18.
The trial was about whether _______ should be taught in schools?
a)
reading
b)
biology
c)
religion
d)
evolution
19.
Which organization put out an advertisement that they were looking for a defendant in a trial about the Butler Act?
a)
the ABA
b)
the WMCA
c)
the DMV
d)
the ACLU
20.
John Scopes was found _________.
a)
innocent
b)
guilty
21.

What event symbolized the clash between modernity and traditionalism / religion vs science / urban vs rural?

a)

The Scopes Trial

b)

Lindbergh's Flight

c)

The death of President Harding

d)

Widespread use of the automobile