Heritage Studies 5: Chapter 6 - The Roaring Twenties

Question 1

What is suffrage?

Accepted Answer

the right to vote

Question 2

Who were Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith?

Accepted Answer

New York policemen who tried to close speakeasies

Question 3

The assembly line and interchangeable parts made....

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 4

A change made to the Constitution is called...

Accepted Answer

an amendment

Question 5

When did the stock market crash?

Accepted Answer

October 1929

Question 6

Who was an evangelist held meetings in the southern U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Bob Jones

Question 7

The period in which many people were buying and selling real estate was called the ______.

Accepted Answer

Florida Boom

Question 8

Who was the mobster who was blamed for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?

Accepted Answer

Al Capone

Question 9

Who was the professional baseball player who became an evangelist after he was saved?

Accepted Answer

Billy Sunday

Question 10

What was the result of the stock market crash?

Accepted Answer

People became poor overnight, Life slowed down for many people.

Question 11

Who was the baseball player whom fans wanted to see hit a home run?

Accepted Answer

Babe Ruth

Question 12

The Eighteenth Amendment...

Accepted Answer

made it illegal for anyone to make or sell alcohol

Question 13

What is part of a company that one could buy at the stock exchange?

Accepted Answer

stock

Question 14

An installment is _____.

Accepted Answer

a payment to a bank to repay a loan

Question 15

Who led the the suffrage movement?

Accepted Answer

Susan B. Anthony

Question 16

A bank loaning a person money with the agreement that he will pay it back gradually is...

Accepted Answer

credit

Question 17

To approve an amendment to the Constitution

Accepted Answer

ratify

Question 18

A time of economic growth is called a _____ market.

Accepted Answer

bull

Question 19

A time of economic loss is called a _____ market.

Accepted Answer

bear

Question 20

Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Accepted Answer

novelist who wrote about attitudes and values of the 1920s

Question 21

Who promised Americans a "return to normalcy"?

Accepted Answer

Warren B. Harding

Question 22

The Eighteenth Amendment was about...

Accepted Answer

making and selling alcohol

Question 23

True or false? Jazz Age, Classical Age, and Roaring Twenties are all names given to the 1920s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

Rudolph Valentino...

Accepted Answer

acted in silent films

Question 25

The Nineteenth Amendment was about...

Accepted Answer

women's right to vote

Question 26

The Nineteenth Amendment...

Accepted Answer

was partly a result of sufragettes getting signed petitions.

Question 27

_____ was the first to fly a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Accepted Answer

Charles Lindbergh

Question 28

Who was Arthur Schomburg?

Accepted Answer

a collector of books and pictures by African Americans

Question 29

A woman dressed in nontraditional ways is called a _____.

Accepted Answer

flapper

Question 30

What was the Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

a ban that made it illegal to make or sell alcohol

Question 31

A meeting held by evangelists is called a _____.

Accepted Answer

revival

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Heritage Studies 5: Chapter 6 - The Roaring Twenties

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