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WorksheetsCoach D's 1920's Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
A young woman of the 1920’s who defied traditional ideas of proper dress and behavior was called a:
Flapper
Suffragette
Debutante
Gibson Girl
The Great Migration refers to the movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the early 20th century.
A movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the early 20th century.
A migration of Europeans to America in the 19th century.
The relocation of Native Americans to reservations in the 18th century.
A mass exodus of people from Europe to Australia in the 20th century.
Who represented the prosecution and was a three-time candidate for president and defended creationism and a fundamentalist Christian point of view?
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that took place in which area?
Harlem, New York City
Paris, France
Los Angeles, California
Chicago, Illinois
What two mediums created a new popular culture in the 1920’s?
Radio and Movies
Television and Internet
Newspapers and Magazines
Books and Theater
Bessie Smith was from which place?
Chattanooga, Tennessee
New York, New York
Chicago, Illinois
Los Angeles, California
What hate group had a renewal in the twenties that became revitalized in the south and the mid west?
Ku Klux Klan
Black Panther Party
Neo-Nazi
Aryan Brotherhood
What pilot was never found as she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean trying to be the first to fly around the world?
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
Howard Hughes
Bessie Coleman
What occupation did Helen Wills have?
Tennis Player
Doctor
Engineer
Artist
Who represented John Scopes in the trial over teaching evolution in 1925?
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
H.G. Wells
Thomas Edison
What type of music became popular during this time period in America?
Jazz
Classical
Rock
Hip Hop
What amendment was the abolition of making alcohol?
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
21st Amendment
Who was the well known ex-ball player and ordained minister that was a fundamentalist that criticized the changing attitudes of the 1920’s reflecting the rural American Ideas?
Billy Sunday
Babe Ruth
Charles Spurgeon
Dwight L. Moody
The first cartoon that introduced Mickey Mouse was called?
Steamboat Willie
Plane Crazy
The Gallopin' Gaucho
Fantasia
Who was the first dashing leading man of romantic films and unexpectedly died in 1926?
Rudolph Valentino
Charlie Chaplin
Douglas Fairbanks
John Barrymore
George Gershwin was known for:
composing Jazz music
writing novels
painting landscapes
sculpting statues
Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
J.D. Salinger
A liquor smuggler in the 1920’s was called a:
Bootlegger
Moonshiner
Rum-runner
Speakeasy
Who was the first film star who was a comedian whose signature character was a tramp in a derby hat and ragged clothes?
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd
Fatty Arbuckle
Who was a prominent poet that was produced from the Harlem renaissance who wrote of black defiance and hope?
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
