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#Boom Times #Life During the 1920s #The Jazz Age
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1
Which group was granted citizenship in 1924?
African Americans
Latin Americans
Native Americans
Jews
2
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A period of increased racial discrimination
A period of extensive construction
A period of African American artistic accomplishment
A period of Latino musical accomplishment
3
Which writer produced plays, poems and novels about African American life?
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Georgia O'Keeffe
4
Which of the following quotes reflects the beliefs of Calvin Coolidge?
"The business of America is business"
"I will build a motor car for the great multitude."
"I want my girl to be a flapper, because flappers are brave"
"America's president need is not heroics, but healing."
5
Which of the following is true about Henry Ford?
He hired African Americans and people with disabilities
He blamed the world's problems on Jewish bankers
All of the above
He rasied the wages and lowered work hours for employees
6
Which of the following is a reason why consumers bought more manufactured products in the 20s?
Radio and print advertising made it easier to buy products
Immigrants came to the US in record numbers and bought goods
More Americans had electricity at home to use appliances
The Lost Generation felt separated from American culture
7
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
A limit to the number of immigrants to enter the country
A policy to keep America out of foreign affairs
The number of expatriates to leave the country
A response to the rise of alcoholics in the country
8
What was the Anti-Defamation League?
An organization that fought for the rights of women
An organization founded by Jews to fight anti-Semitism
An advertizing agency
An organization that promoted baseball
9
What did Hoover believe about poverty in the United States?
Families had no money as a result of bootlegging
Advertising was causing people to spend too much
The poor should be ignored
Poverty was almost over and could soon be eliminated
10
What was the Great Migration?
Large numbers of African Americans moved North
Large number of expatriates moving overseas
Large number of people moving from the South to the North
Large number of Immigrants moving to big cities
11
What was a
talkie
?
A term for radio shows
A term for television with sound
A term for jazz shows
A term for movies with sound
12
This pilot completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean -Paris to NY.
Gertrude Ederle
Ernest Hemingway
Louis Armstrong
Charles Lindbergh
13
What agreement outlawed war in 1928?
The Scopes Trial
The Twenty-first Amendment
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Great Migration
14
One effect of the Red Scare was
the Scopes trail.
the trial and execution of Sacco & Vanzetti
new opportunities for women, immigrants, and minorities.
the election of Herbert Hoover in 1928.
15
He wrote
The Great Gatsby
, a book about the loss of morality during the Jazz Age.
Claude McKay
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
16
Marcus Garvey was a leader in which of the following movements?
communisim
socialism
black nationalism
fundamentalism
17
What was the first commercial radio station?
CBS
NBC
TNT
KDKA
18
Which of the following was a famous jazz musician and composer?
Edward "Duke Ellington
Zora Neale Hurston
Mary Pickford
Charles Lindbergh
19
President Harding's secretary of the interior was found guilty for his participation in the
Red Scare
Scopes trial
Teapot Dome scandal
Kellogg-Briand Pact
20
What is the style of architecture which sharp lines that resembled machines?
Avant garde
Expatriates
Gilded
Art Deco
