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Roaring 20's Practice Questions

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are people who buy and use products and services called?

a)

Producers

b)

Consumers

c)

Manufacturers

d)

Distributors

2.

What system did Henry Ford develop for his Model T cars?

a)

Conveyor belt system

b)

Factory system

c)

Assembly line system

d)

Production line system

3.

The 1920's became a time of large scale demand of goods, known as:

a)

Mass production

b)

Mass consumption

c)

Mass distribution

d)

Mass marketing

4.

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

a)

Sixteenth Amendment

b)

Eighteenth Amendment

c)

Nineteenth Amendment

d)

Twentieth Amendment

5.

What made housework easier for women in the 1920s?

a)

Mass produced products

b)

Hired help

c)

Family assistance

d)

Government programs

6.

What term describes women who dressed and behaved in a daring manner during the 1920s?

a)

Suffragettes

b)

Flappers

c)

Progressives

d)

Activists

7.

What helped create a popular culture that everyone shared during the 1920s?

a)

Newspapers and magazines

b)

Movies and radio

c)

Books and theater

d)

Telephones and telegrams

8.

What style of music has roots in traditional African American sounds and rhythms?

a)

Rock

b)

Blues

c)

Country

d)

Jazz

9.

Who were famous musicians that brought people together through their music in the 1920s?

a)

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington

b)

Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie

c)

Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker

d)

Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton

10.

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement in which city?

a)

Chicago

b)

Detroit

c)

New York

d)

Boston

11.

What movement did pride and culture in the Harlem Renaissance help boost?

a)

Women's rights

b)

Labor rights

c)

Civil rights

d)

Voting rights

12.

Who was a well-known activist that fought for fair and equal treatment of African Americans?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Zora Neale Hurston

d)

Duke Ellington

13.

Workers who move around with the seasons to harvest crops are called:

a)

Seasonal workers

b)

Harvest workers

c)

Migrant workers

d)

Farm laborers

14.

What did the KKK spread about immigrants?

a)

Truth and acceptance

b)

Lies and hatred

c)

Facts and statistics

d)

Hope and opportunity

15.

What did Congress pass in 1924 to limit immigration?

a)

Immigration Act

b)

Citizenship Law

c)

Border Control Act

d)

Foreign Quota Law

16.

Which amendment gave Congress the power to collect taxes?

a)

Fifteenth Amendment

b)

Sixteenth Amendment

c)

Seventeenth Amendment

d)

Eighteenth Amendment

17.

Which amendment outlawed alcohol in the United States?

a)

Sixteenth Amendment

b)

Seventeenth Amendment

c)

Eighteenth Amendment

d)

Nineteenth Amendment

18.

What was the complete ban of alcohol called?

a)

Temperance

b)

Prohibition

c)

Abstinence

d)

Restriction

19.

Which amendment ended Prohibition in 1933?

a)

Nineteenth Amendment

b)

Twentieth Amendment

c)

Twenty-first Amendment

d)

Twenty-second Amendment

20.

What historical event was followed by radio and represented the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic?

a)

The Wright brothers' first flight

b)

Amelia Earhart's disappearance

c)

Charles Lindbergh's flight

d)

The invention of the jet engine