What was significant about The Jazz Singer?

it was the first "talkie" movie

An increase in water for irrigation in the SW in the 1920s lead to an increase in what?

Mexican immigrants to work farms

What did businesses begin doing that increased the size of the middle class?

began to use managers to run their business

What two forms of purchasing power used in the 1920s will lead to an economic collapse?

buying on credit and speculating on stock

All of the following are examples of welfare capitalism EXCEPT...

companies giving companies office parties

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1
Gov't enforcing Prohibition, Palmer's Raids, and the Red Scare lead to the development of what?
CIA
FBI
Secret Service
Homeland Security
2
What was significant about The Jazz Singer?
It had the first curse word in it
It had the first African American in it
it was the first "talkie" movie
It was Mary Pickford's first movie
3
How did the radio and mass advertising change America during the 1920s?
all of the above
helped to creat an American culture
society became more informed
radio networks like NBC formed
4
helped improve the efficiency of planes that lead to an airline industry
Clarence Birdseye
Charles Lindberg
Glenn Curtiss
Alexander Fleming
5
He started a movement for African Americans to move "back to Africa"
Marcus Garvey
Babe Ruth
WEB duBois
Booker T Washington
6
These were some famous athletes during the twenties
Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey
Ellington and Armstrong
Lindberg and Sanger
Fitzgerald and Hemingway
7
Famous authors during the twenties
Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Ness and Capone
Armstrong and Ellington
Babe Ruth and Dempsey
8
Who was hired to catch the mobsters of the 1920s?
Elliott Ness
Charles Lindberg
Glen Curtiss
Alexander Fleming
9
What famous trial did William J Bryan lose over evolution in schools?
Scopes Trial
Sacco and Venzetti Trial
Al Capone Trial
Thaw Trials
10
A place where intellectuals and artists gather, nicknamed Tin Pan Alley
Hollywood
Greenwich Villa, NYC
Broadway
Nashville
11
An increase in water for irrigation in the SW in the 1920s lead to an increase in what?
industrial production
Mexican immigrants to work farms
building of more roads
more tourists to the area
12
Modern women who had short hair and dresses and smoked and drank alcohol
dames
flashers
flappers
broads
13
Responsible for the passage of anti-lynching laws during the twenties
Harlem Renaissance
NAACP
Great Migration
Back to Africa
14
movement of African Americans from the South to the North for factory jobs
Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration
NAACP
Back to Africa
15
Who introduced the assembly line to factories?
Andrew Carnegie
Calvin Coolidge
Henry Ford
Warren G Harding
16
Farmers did not share in the prosperity of the 20s, why?
high tariffs hurt foreign trade
Farm production was up, prices were down
all of the above
Europe could grow its own food now
17
This is a famous bootlegging mobster in the 1920s
Margaret Sanger
Alexander Fleming
Elliott Ness
Al Capone
18
These are famous African American jazz musicians
Armstrong and Ellington
Ness and Capone
Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Babe Ruth and Dempsey
19
In what cartoon did Mickey Mouse make his appearance?
"Steamboat Willie"
"The Opry House"
"The Barn Dance"
"Karnival Kid"
20
All of the following are negative results of Prohibition EXCEPT...
the opening of Speakeasies
rise in organized crime
increase in # of drunk drivers
bootleggers making illegal alcohol
21
Made a solo airplane flight over the Atlantic in 1927 and became a US hero
Glenn Curtiss
Charles Lindberg
Al Capone
Clarence Birdseye
22
This was a famous night club in Harlem
Cotton Club
White Elephant
Broken Spoke
Billy Bob's
23
This was the 369th African American regiment in WWI
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Hellfighters
Tin Pan Alley
NAACP
24
This man invented a "quick freeze" machine
Charles lindberg
Al Capone
Clarence Birdseye
Elliott Ness
25
This group reformed because of the threat of communism in the 20s
The Grange
Ku Klux Klan
Red Party
Populists
26
Which of the following is an example of growing natiivism in the U.S. in the 20s?
the reforming of the KKK
Passage of National Origin Act 1924
all of the above
Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
27
This man discovered penicillin
Al Capone
Charles Lindberg
Elliott Ness
Alexander Fleming
28
What did businesses begin doing that increased the size of the middle class?
began to use managers to run their business
all of the above
began to use only Union workers
began to rely on CEOs to run their business
29
This person started Planned Parenthood
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Margaret Sanger
Marcus Garvey
30
This was the flowering of African American culture in the twenties
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Prohibition
Back to Africa Movement
31
An African American neighborhood in New York City
Congress Ave
Ellington
8th Avenue
Harlem
32
What two forms of purchasing power used in the 1920s will lead to an economic collapse?
buying on credit and borrowing to buy stock
buying on credit and speculating on stock
speculating on stock and goods
borrowing from the bank to purchase goods
33
All of the following are examples of welfare capitalism EXCEPT...
companies allowing employees to buy stock
companies giving companies office parties
companies help to pay worker's health care
companies offering pensions to retiring employees
34
A government official took a bribe for an oil field lease in what political scandal?
Watergate Scandal
Iran Contra Affair
Profumo Affair
Tea Pot Dome Scandal

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