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1
Americans could purchase products like new cars by using
welfare capitalism
purchasing power
mass production
installment buying
2
During the 1920s which city became the automobile manufacturing center of the world?
Detroit
Baltimore
Atlanta
Cleveland
3
Through which business did Al Capone supply a popular demand during the 1920s?
importing rare art objects
financing and building skyscrapers
publishing city newspapers
making and selling illegal alcohol
4
What was a
speakeasy
?
an illegal bar
a police informant
a temperance organization
a women's center
5
Racial tensions led to violent rioting during the summer of 1919 in which major city?
Detroit
Boston
Atlanta
Chicago
6
What are types of communication that reach large numbers of people?
flappers
yellow journalism
mass media
expatriates
7
Which president said: "The chief business of the American people is business...."?
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
8
In his presidential campaign, Warren G. Harding said that America needed a return to
prosperousness
normalcy
libertarianism
virtuosity
9
Which constitutional amendment overturned an earlier amendment?
Twenty-first
Nineteenth
Eighteenth
Twentieth
10
What do we call the period in the 1920s when the government went after suspected communists?
Red Scare
Red Summer
Emergency Quota
Prohibition
11
The belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners is called
nativism
urbanism
isolationism
nationalism
12
Which of these did Marcus Garvey support?
integration
unlimited immigration
a back-to-Africa movement
communism
13
What do we call the amount of work each worker can do?
progressivism
productivity
capitalism
reform
14
What city was home to many artists of the Harlem Renaissance?
New Orleans
Detroit
New York City
Chicago
15
What do we call people who believe in having no government?
Bolsheviks
anarchists
Reds
socialists
16
Eighteen strikers died in what industry's strike in 1919?
Boston police
steelworkers
railroad workers
coal miners
17
In what treaty did world powers agree to disarm?
Treaty of Paris
Five-Power Treaty
Scopes Treaty
Treaty of Versailles
18
What is the total value of all goods and services produced by a nation?
gross national product
productivity
supply and demand
recession
19
What was the blossoming of African American culture during the 1920s?
Harlem Shake
Harlem Revolution
Harlem Globetrotters
Harlem Renaissance
20
Where was support for Prohibition strongest?
the cities
the West Coast
the suburbs of New York City
the rural South and Midwest
21
What were young "liberated" women of the 1920s called?
flappers
flippers
flirts
flames
22
Who were the Democratic candidates for president and vice-president in 1920?
Bryan & Darrow
Cox & Roosevelt
McKinley & Roosevelt
Harding & Coolidge
23
What is paying over a period of time?
supply and demand
installment buying
capitalism
productivity
24
What law first established a quota system for immigration?
National Origins Act
Teapot Dome Act
Scopes Act
Emergency Quota Act
25
Who won the presidential election of 1928?
William Jennings Bryan
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Alfred E. Smith
26
Which constitutional amendment enacted Prohibition?
Nineteenth
Twenty-first
Eighteenth
Fifteenth
27
What does this photo show?
an assembly line
a subway system
a power plant
a water-powered mill
28
What is a downturn in business activity called?
reform
recession
production
capitalism
29
What is an economic system based on private property and free enterprise?
socialism
communism
capitalism
fascism
30
Which one of the following was a famous writer of the Harlem Renaissance?
Babe Ruth
Langston Hughes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Suzanne Collins
31
For what type of music is the 1920s most remembered?
bluegrass
classical
rock
jazz
32
What is a national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs?
socialism
imperialism
isolationism
progressivism
33
What word means: to be sent out of a country?
deluded
deported
demoted
delivered
34
Which president's administration was marked by scandals involving the Ohio Gang?
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
35
What do we call people who give up their home country and live abroad?
extortionists
expatriates
socialists
flappers
36
What did employers use to keep workers from joining unions?
installment buying
welfare capitalism
increased productivity
assembly lines
37
What was a popular nickname for President Coolidge?
Silver-tongued Cal
Silent Cal
Cal the Cool
Conservative Cal
38
The Sacco and Vanzetti case revealed American prejudice against
foreigners and radicals
the rich and powerful
the poor and homeless
African Americans and Asians
39
Which of the lawyers in the 1925 Scopes trial was a strong opponent of evolution?
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
Charles Darwin
William Jefferson Clinton
40
What challenge did Charles Lindbergh take up in 1927?
the first commercial pilot
the first trans-Atlantic flight
flying nonstop across Canada
building the first helicopter
41
In the 1920s what Hollywood industry became one of the country's leading businesses?
automobiles
steel
bootlegging
motion pictures
42
What group faced serious economic difficulties during the 1920s?
freemasons
farmers
fire fighters
fisherman
43
When the Boston police force went on strike in 1919, they all were
fired
supported by the governor
given shorter hours
given raises