history test study guide

Question 1

What did flappers represent in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Young women with more freedom, shorter skirts, bobbed hair, and more agency

Question 2

What changed about the American work week in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

It shortened from 70 hours to 45 hours, creating more leisure time

Question 3

. What was one of the major slogans of the Bolshevik Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Peace, Land, and Bread

Question 4

What was the goal of the second Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

To uphold white supremacy and target African Americans and immigrants

Question 5

What does “Mass Production” refer to?

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Making large quantities of products quickly and cheaply

Question 6

What is a Bull Market?

Accepted Answer

A market with rising stock prices

Question 7

Who was Vladimir Lenin?

Accepted Answer

Leader of the Bolshevik Party in Russia

Question 8

What happened as a result of inflation in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

. 20% of workers went on strike

Question 9

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

The development of African American culture in Harlem — music, art, writing

Question 10

What idea did Sigmund Freud popularize?

Accepted Answer

That human behavior is driven by unconscious desires

Question 11

What happened during Herbert Hoover’s presidency?

Accepted Answer

Stock market crash and beginning of the Great Depression

Question 12

Who became president after Harding died and promoted a laissez-faire economic policy?

Accepted Answer

Calvin Coolidge

Question 13

What is Nativism?

Accepted Answer

Anti-immigrant attitudes, especially against Catholics, Jews and no-whites

Question 14

Who was Charlie Chaplin?

Accepted Answer

The most popular silent film star of the 1920s

Question 15

What was the purpose of Immigration Laws during WWI?

Accepted Answer

To ban certain groups from entering the country

Question 16

What was one major result of the Treaty of Versailles for Germany?

Accepted Answer

. Reparations and economic transition

Question 17

What was the Red Scare?

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Fear of socialist and communist ideologies in the U.S.

Question 18

What was the goal of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

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To renounce war as a national policy

Question 19

Who entered the workforce during WWI due to labor shortages?

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Women, African Americans, and immigrants

Question 20

Why is The Jazz Singer important in film history?

Accepted Answer

It was the first movie with synchronized sound ("talkie")

Question 21

What was the global impact of the 1918 Influenza (Spanish flu)?

Accepted Answer

Killed about 50 million people worldwide

Question 22

What is Modernism?

Accepted Answer

A trend that emphasized science and secular values over religion

Question 23

What was the purpose of the Dawes Plan?

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To help rebuild Germany’s economy and pay war reparations

Question 24

Who was Warren G. Harding?

Accepted Answer

A Republican president involved in scandals

Question 25

What was The Great Gatsby about, and who wrote it?

Accepted Answer

Excess and disillusionment in the 1920s, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 26

What was the Red Summer?

Accepted Answer

White mobs attacking African Americans, burning homes and businesses

Question 27

What does "inflation" refer to?

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Increase in average prices due to high demand and low supply

Question 28

Who were part of the “Lost Generation”?

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Young Am. writers who lost faith in traditional values and the Am. dream

Question 29

What genre of music became very popular in the 1920s and was led by African American artists?

Accepted Answer

jazz

Question 30

What was the Consumer Revolution?

Accepted Answer

People began buying many new goods, lead to consumer-driven culture

Question 31

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

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Italian anarchists convicted of murder and robbery

Question 32

Who was Babe Ruth?

Accepted Answer

A baseball star and American Hero

Question 33

What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?

Accepted Answer

A bribery scandal involving government oil reserves

Question 34

What is Eugenics?

Accepted Answer

A pseudoscience used to justify racism and white supremacy

Question 35

What was one of the effects of Prohibition?

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Rise of speakeasies and organized crime

Question 36

What did Marcus Garvey advocate for?

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The Back to Africa movement — separation from white society

Question 37

What was the Great Migration?

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Movement of 6 mil African Americans from the South to North and Midwest

Question 38

What was Fundamentalism in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A Protestant movement that strictly followed the Bible

Question 39

What was the result of the Bolshevik Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Creation of Soviet Russia with a socialist constitution

history test study guide

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