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1
Which Amendment gave women the right to vote?
18th
20th
19th
21st
2
How would you characterize economic life for most people in the 1920's ?
People were unwilling to buy in order to avoid debt
People were buying and using a wider variety of products
Very little had changed since the late 1800's
People were poor, the country was in a depression
3
Who is a Harlem Renaissance poet that wrote about what it meant to be African American?
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman
4
What is the fear of communism spreading to the United States know as?
Domino Theory
Blue Scare
White Scare
Red Scare
5
What is the name for women who voted, cut their hair short and wore short dresses in the 1920's
Traditionalists
Suffragists
Flappers
Pianists
6
What American musician is know for combining classical music and jazz?
The Beatles
George Gershwin
Bessie Smith
F. Scott Fitzgerald
7
Which artist is famous for painting urban scenes and the American southwest ?
Bessie Smith
Georgia O'Keeffe
Jacob Lawrence
Langston Hughes
8
Which of the following was not a reason for the Great Migration
Jobs in the south did not pay well
The north was free of discrimination
There were better job opportunities in the north
There was discrimination and violence in the south
9
The idea of "buy now, pay later" that was popular among consumers in the 1920's was called
Stock Options
Bull Market
Credit
Sales
10
Who was the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Babe Ruth
Charlie Chaplin
Neil Armstrong
Charles Lindbergh
11
Which Amendment made alcohol illegal and started the prohibition era ?
20th
18th
19th
17th
12
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A jazz festival
A time when black Americans recalled their European roots
An Awakening of African American music, literature, and art
A book publishing fair
13
Which artists work chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration?
Jacob Lawrence
Georgia O'Keeffe
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington
14
What invention played the greatest role in helping suburbs develop?
Telegraph
Automobile
Radio
Telephone
15
Which of the following was not a way women's lives changed in the 1920s?
The found new educational opportunities
The gained the right to vote
They won protection of the Equal Rights Amendment
Their housework was made easier by labor saving devices
16
Who wrote about the Jazz Age in his famous novel
The Great Gatsby
?
Walt Whitman
John Steinbeck
Langston Hughes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
17
Who is credited with inventing the airplane?
J Robert Oppenheimer
Wright Brothers
Issac Newton
Albert Einstein
18
Which Amendment repealed (stopped) prohibition in America?
19th
20th
18th
21st
19
The Great Migration of the 20th Century involved the movement of...
African Americans to northern cities
Women changing from working at home to paying jobs
People from Europe settling the mid-west
African Americans to southern cities