WorksheetsChapter 20-The Roaring 1920s
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What was the symbol of women in the 1920s?
Free woman
Housewife
Working woman
In the 1920s, most African Americans moved to northern cities because they
Better schools
Jobs
Less discrimination
What did the rise of mass media lead to?
Decline in newspaper sales
Decline in the automobile industry
Development of national culture
The twenties are called the Jazz Age because
Americans from almost every segment embraced jazz music
Poetry and art were only about jazz
People only went to jazz dance halls
Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen were leaders of
The labor movement
The Harlem Renaissance
The prohibition movement
What does Renaissance mean?
Old
Middle Ages
Rebirth
What was the main result of the alcohol ban?
Crime organizations became wealthy through alcohol sales
Crime rates dropped in most cities
Alcohol sales increased in rural areas
The central issue in the Scopes Trial was:
Should Jim Crow laws be declared illegal
Should the theory of evolution be taught in public schools
Should unions be allowed to strike
Who was the pilot that flew across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 and became a hero?
Marcus Garvey
Warren G. Harding
Charles Lindbergh
Illegal alcohol production during the prohibition era in the 1920s
speakeasies
fundamentalism
bootlegging
Known as the movement of African Americans from the south to the north
Great March
Great Migration
Journey
What conflict does the trial of John Scopes in 1925 reflect?
Prohibition and organized crime
Traditional and new roles of women
Science and religion
Which amendment declares the production, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages illegal?
Seventeenth Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
How did the roles of women in society change in the 1920s?
Women started earning higher wages than men
The number of women going to work decreased
Women were elected to local and national governments
The books of the Lost Generation writers encouraged many American youths
to rebel against popular culture
to join the Harlem Globetrotters team
to desire to become rich
