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The Roaring Twenties Vocab. Test Review

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts - by embracing modern trends woman of the 1920s (dancing in clubs, shorter skirts, smoking, drinking)

a)

bootlegging

b)

Flapper

c)

Go Go Girls

d)

Hot Girls

2.

Fear of communism

a)

Red Scare

b)

Palmer Raids

c)

Teapot Dome Scandal

d)

Bloody Scare

3.

A government scandal involving President Warren G. Harding's

corrupt administration allowing the secret lease of a former United States

a)

The Big Scandal

b)

Palmer Raids

c)

Teapot Dome Scandal

d)

Warren G. Scandal

4.

An anti-communism effort organized by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer

in which federal agents raided the homes of suspected communists in America

- a result of the Red Scare

a)

Communism Raids

b)

Palmer Raids

c)

Red Scare

5.

Production method that breaks down a complex

into a series of smaller tasks along a moving line in a factory

a)

Assembly Line

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Quota

6.

the rise of mass production of products resulting in people buying those products in great numbers

a)

Mass Consumerism

b)

Credit

c)

Mass Productions

7.

Buying a product now and paying for it later.

a)

Laissez-faire

b)

Quota

c)

Mass Consumerism

d)

Credit

8.

President Harding’s campaign slogan that

encouraged a return to life and politics similar to what it was before World War I

a)

"Return to Isolation"

b)

“Return to Normalcy”

c)

"We're Back"

d)

"Return to America"

9.

Car company owner that that used the assembly line to mass produce automobiles (cars)

a)

Warren G. Harding

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Henry Ford

d)

Calvin Coolidge

10.

economics in which the government removes regulation of business

and the economy to encourage business growth - "hands off"

a)

Laissez-faire

b)

Business Regulations

c)

Political economics

11.

a limit or pre-set amount of something

a)

Socialism

b)

Credit

c)

Quota

12.

popular music genre in the 1920’s made famous by Black artists

a)

Rap

b)

Jazz

c)

Blues

d)

R&B

13.

The constitutional amendment that made making, selling, and transporting alcohol illegal

a)

17th Amendment

b)

21st Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

14.

Movement of African American families from the South to the North to escape racism

a)

Great Migration

b)

Moving North

c)

The Great Escape

d)

Harlem Renaissance

15.

the rebirth and popularization of Black culture like jazz music that started in Harlem, New York

a)

New York Blues

b)

Jazz Age

c)

Harlem Renaissance

d)

Harlem Night

16.

the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

Scopes Monkey Trial

c)

Speakeasy

17.

A place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition

a)

Speakeasy

b)

Harlem Renaissance

c)

Prohibition

18.

illegally making or selling alcohol during 1920's -1933

a)

Speakeasy

b)

Bootlegger

c)

Prohibition

d)

18th Amendment

19.

Which statement describe effects of the Red Scare during the 1920s?

a)

Women and African Americans filled job vacancies.

b)

U.S. mainstream culture accepted African American music and literature.

c)

The U.S. government limited the number of immigrants that entered America.

20.

___________ refers to authors, like Ernest

Hemingway, who expressed their societal concerns through literary works.

a)

Lost Generation

b)

Flappers

c)

Economic

21.

One reason for the Great Migration was that African Americans wanted to escape the South’s strict ____________

a)

Jim Crow laws

b)

Harlem Renaissance

22.

Situations like the Red Scare and immigration quotas are results of which major idea from this unit?

a)
  1. Prosperity 

b)
  1. Consumerism 

c)
  1. Corruption 

d)
  1. Nativism 

  2.  

23.

Three words that depict the theme of Traditionalism v. Modernism:

a)

Harlem Renaissance        

laissez-faire 

Teapot Dome Scandal        

b)

flapper      

Scopes Monkey Trial

    laissez-faire

c)

  flapper

Harlem Renaissance

 Scopes Monkey Trial

24.

Advocated for a “Back-to-Africa” movement

Established the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Promoted cultural pride among African Americans

a)

Babe Ruth

b)

Marcus Garvey

c)

Charles Lindbergh


25.
  • 1st person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the mail.

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Charles Lindbergh

c)

Charlie Chaplin

26.

The Roaring Twenties were characterized by --

a)

internment camps, the rationing of goods, and the first use of an atomic bomb

b)

bank failure, the New Deal, and bread lines

c)

installment plans, Prohibition, and flappers

d)

brinkmanship, McCarthyism, and a policy of containment

27.

What was the nickname given to the 1920s due to its vibrant youth culture and social changes?

a)

The Gloomy Twenties

b)

The Roaring Twenties

c)

The Soaring Twenties

d)

The Boring Twenties

28.

What technological advancement contributed most to the growth of towns and cities in the 1920s & 1930s?

a)

electric lights

b)

automobile

c)

radio

d)

telephone

29.

True or False

Cars become more affordable because of the assembly line

a)

True

b)

False

30.

True or False

Crime will decrease because of the Prohibition

a)

True

b)

False

31.

Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen are all writers during The Harlem Renaissance


a)

True

b)

False

32.

Zora Neale Hurston wrote about .........

a)

Jokes for newspaper

b)

African American experience in America

c)

Poetry

33.

True or False

New household appliances made life easier during the 1920's

a)

True

b)

False

34.

Speculation is the purchase of

a)

appliances

b)

stocks

c)

Automobile


35.

Author that wrote about the fast-ace lifestyle of the 1920s and the newness of the Jazz Age. Most famous book is The Great Gatsby.

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Jacob Lawrence

c)

George Gershwin

d)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

36.

The Roaring Twenties was known as a time of........

a)

prosperity (GOOD)

b)

economic depression

c)

Expansion and growth