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Roaring 1920s

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who ran the Palmer Raids?

a)

Mitchell Palmer

b)

Michael Palmer

c)

Mateusz Palmer

d)

Michelangelo Palmer

2.
What did the Immigration Acts of 1921, 1924 and 1929 do?
a)
Increased the amount of immigrants allowed in the US
b)
Decreased the amount of immigrants allowed in the US
c)
Outlawed all immigration
d)
Only allowed immigrants from Russia
3.

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer believed that he needed to protect the American people from...

a)

Political radicals

b)

Michael Scott

c)

Mr. Palmer

d)

Ms. Lawson

4.

What did the 18th Amendment accomplish?

a)

It granted all men the right to vote

b)

It granted all women the right to vote

c)

It banned the sale and consumption of alcohol (prohibition)

d)

It provided equal rights for women of all races

5.

What were secret, illegal clubs that served alcohol?

a)

flappers

b)

prohibition

c)

bootleggers

d)

speakeasies

6.

What was the case in which a Tennessee science teacher was found guilty and fined for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution?

a)

Scopes Trial

b)

Sunday Trail

c)

Simpson Trial

d)

Capone Trial

7.

What were young women who wore looser clothes, used make-up, cut their hair, and pursued new activities?

a)

fundamentalists

b)

speakeasies

c)

bootleggers

d)

flappers

8.

What ended national prohibition?

a)

18th Amendment

b)

Prohibition

c)

Volstead Act

d)

21st Amendment

9.

Who are people who illegally import liquor?

a)

flappers

b)

prohibition

c)

bootleggers

d)

speakeasies

10.

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

a)

The building of the city of Harlem

b)

A poetry and literature conference

c)

Modern day African American literature

d)

The blooming of African American arts in the early 20th century

11.
The trial was about whether _______ should be taught in schools?
a)
reading
b)
biology
c)
religion
d)
evolution
12.

What industry expanded as a result of the assembly line?

a)

Automobiles

b)

Banking

c)

Textiles

d)

Agriculture

13.

The ________________________ was a rebirth in African American Art, intellectualism, and literature.

a)

The Great Migration

b)

The Harlem Renaissance

c)

Prohibition

d)

Consumerism

14.

An arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants allowed from each country.

a)

Quota System

b)

Limit System

c)

Number System

d)

Immigrant System

15.
Who were the Palmer Raids meant to find and root out?
a)
Anarchists
b)
Communists
c)
Socialists
d)
All of the above
16.

Founded by Marcus Garvey, a movement that encouraged those of African decent to return to Africa to their ancestors so that they could have their own empire because they were treated poorly in America

a)

Great Migration

b)

Harlem Renaissance

c)

Back to Africa Movement

d)

Temperance Movement

17.

Which of these was NOT involved with making the united states prosperous?

a)

Assembly line

b)

Scopes Trial

c)

The Radio Industry

d)

Mass Advertising

18.

What did the Coolidge presidency achieve?

a)

Helped people abandon the 2 party system that was in place at the time because of Harding.

b)

Helped restore people’s faith in their government and in the Republican Party after Harding.

c)

It gave President Hoover his education of government to prepare him for the office.

19.

The ACLU protected the rights of citizens many times during the 1920s. Which of these was NOT an occasion when the ACLU helped out?

a)

Defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

b)

Fought to protect immigrants who had been

rounded up in the Palmer Raids

c)

Helped release hundreds of pacifists who had

been jailed during the war for expressing antiwar sentiments.

d)

Fought to defend members of the Harding cabinet from unlawful searches.

20.

When a government official made money off of allowing a private company to drill on government oil fields, it was called

a)

Nativism

b)

Red Scare

c)

Sacco and Venzetti

d)

Teapot Dome Scandal

21.

What was the Temperance Movement?

a)

Pizza party

b)

The movement to make more people drink alcohol in the United States

c)

The movement to limit alcohol drinking in the United States and other countries

d)

When everyone started to pour alcohol on cats

22.

This cartoon refers to which Act?

a)

Immigration act of 1921

b)

Palmer Raids

c)

Uncle Sam's Christmas Party

d)

Immigration act of 1924

23.

What was the name of the 1924 agreement with America which helped Germany by paying them to pay back Great Britain and France to pay back the United States?

a)

Dawes Plan

b)

Locarno Plan

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

Young Plan

24.

Harding's friends that gave cabinet posts and other high-level jobs

a)

Mass Media

b)

Fundamentalism

c)

Ohio Gang

25.
Which act prevented schools from teaching evolution?
a)
The Watershed Act
b)
The Homestead Act
c)
The Butler Act
d)
The Boycott Act
26.

a line of workers and machines working together to make one product

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

the muppets

c)

presidential cabinet

d)

assembly line