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Chapter 21 - The Roaring Life of the 1920s
A famous athlete of the 1920s was
The Harlem Renaissance refers to
Chapter 21 - The Roaring Life of the 1920s
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1
The Harlem Renaissance refers to
the first transatlantic flight.
the NAACP's goals.
African American creativity.
the Great Migration to Harlem.
2
A famous athlete of the 1920s was
Bessie Smith.
Babe Ruth.
Duke Ellington.
F.Scott Fitzgerald.
3
NAACP = National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
True
False
4
Billy Sunday was
a jazz singer.
a baseball player turned evangelist.
Scopes' defense lawyer.
a baseball player in the Negro league.
5
Two 1920s fads were
flagpole sitting and dance marathons.
watching TV and YouTube.
dance marathons and transatlantic flying.
flagpole sitting and soccer.
6
A flapper might wear
a short dress and beads.
boots to hide alcohol.
long hair and suits.
men's clothing.
7
The first movie with sound was "Titanic."
True
False
8
Urbanization refers to
attending college.
leaving cities to go to farms.
travelling to Europe.
leaving farms to go to cities.
9
Margaret Sanger started what organization?
The American Birth Control League.
The NAACP.
KDKA in Pittsburgh.
The Anti-Saloon League.
10
"Double standard" refers to
winning a dance marathon.
wage inequality.
racial inequality.
stricter morals for women than men.
11
When hundreds of thousands of blacks moved to cities it was called
the Lost Generation.
Prohibition.
the Harlem Renaissance.
the Great Migration.
12
George Gershwin merged concert music with
ballet.
rap.
jazz.
reggae.
13
One goal of the NAACP was to stop racial injustice.
True
False
14
Prohibition only outlawed alcohol produced in the U.S.
True
False
15
Darwin's Theory of Evolution supports the idea of the Garden of Eden.
True
False
16
The Harlem Renaissance refers to the
racial inequality of the 1920s.
flowering of black creativitiy.
first transatlantic flight.
end of Prohibition.
17
Teaching immigrant children was a challenge because of religious differences.
False
True
18
"Women's professions" included
corporate management.
teaching and nursing.
politics.
law enforcement.
19
Scopes was convicted and given a $100 fine.
False
True
20
The first animated film was "Steamboat Willie."
False
True
21
Two 1920s celebrities with ties to Fort Pierce are...
Louis Armstrong and Aimee Semple McPherson.
Bessie Smith and Helen Wills.
Claude McKay and Charles Robeson.
Amelia Earhart and Zora Neal Hurston.
22
William Jennings Bryan was a Los Angeles preacher with Hollywood showmanship.
True
False
23
Due to the availability of birth control in the 1920s, the birthrate declined.
True
False
24
Clarence Darrow was hired by
the Anti-Saloon League.
the ACLU.
the NAACP.
the Prohibition Bureau.
25
Jim Kulikowski sometimes appears on the JCHS Morning Show.
False
True
26
Fundamentalists believed that
man descended from apes.
the Bible should be taken literally.
women shouldn't bob their hair.
Prohibition should be repealed.
27
Supporters of Prohibition were primarily found in the northeast.
True
False
28
Marcus Garvey founded the
Great Migration.
Negro League in baseball.
Cotton Club.
Universal Negro Improvement Association.
29
Charles Lindbergh was a famous jazz musician.
True
False
30
First American to win Nobel prize for literature
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Sinclair Lewis
Charles Dickens
31
During the 1920s, magazine and newspaper sales increased.
True
False
32
John Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of creationism.
True
False
33
Jazz music began in New Orleans and spread to the north.
True
False
34
The NAACP fought racial injustice.
False
True
35
Which amendment started Prohibition?
33rd
5th
18th
2nd
36
During Prohibition, people went to underground clubs called
tea rooms.
the Cotton Club.
speakeasies.
bootleggers.
37
The Cotton Club was for segregated, for whites only.
False
True
38
Who coined the phrase "Jazz Age"?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George Gershwin
Charles Lindbergh
Langston Hughes
39
Before 1920, high schools catered to future farmers and auto mechanics.
True
False
40
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby."
True
False
