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1
What president used the slogan "a return to normalcy" and was elected in 1921?
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
2
What is Prohibition?
Giving Women the right to vote
The outlawing of alcohol
The enforcing of the 18th amendment
The collapse of the stock market
3
Who is
NOT
a Harlem Renaissance hero?
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Ray Charles
Langston Hughes
Zora Neal Hurston
4
What was the most prominent location of the Jazz Age?
Harlem
New Orleans
Nashville
Los Angeles
5
Who were the 2 men who were wrongly convicted in the 1920s in Massachusetts?
Ronald Williamson & Dennis Fritz
Steven Avery & Brendan Dassey
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Tommy Ward & Karl Fontenot
6
What congressional act was passed to enforce Prohibition?
Kinkaid
Esch-Cummins
Hepburn
Volstead
7
What is a "flapper?"
A bootlegger
A scandal snitch
A stock market trader
A woman expressionist
8
What was the Scopes Trail about?
The trying of anarchists in the US
Bringing justice to the Palmer Raids
The outlawing of the Theory of Evolution in schools
The outlawing of Alcohol
9
What created the Great Depression?
The Hoover administration
The lack of industry
The Federal Reserve Bank
The collapse of the stock market
10
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The economic boom in Harlem
The population boom of NYC
Black intellectuals created a thriving Afro-American culture
The acknowledgement of the Hellfighters
11
What is the 19th Amendment?
Prohibition
Presidential term limits
Popular election of Senators
Women's Right to vote
12
Which is
NOT
an advantage of the automobile in the US?
Encourages growth of suburbs
Affected patterns of crime
Influences economic prosperity
Decrease in prohibition crimes
13
What hate group grew tremendously in the US during the 1920s?
Socialist Party
Ku Klux Klan
Nazi Party
West Burrough Baptist
14
What scandal ruined the image and presidency of Harding?
Teapot Dome
Lewinsky
Watergate
Whiskey Ring
15
Who is the most famous bootlegger from Chicago?
Al Capone
Bugsy Siegel
Bugs Moran
Lucky Luciano
16
What made the mass production of cars possible?
The assembly line
Congress tax breaks
The wealth of Henry Ford
The location of Detroit, MI
17
What are "speakeasies?"
Early movie theaters
Hidden bar clubs
Women's suffrage rallies
Federal officials against Prohibition
18
Why was the FBI created?
the bombing of the Attorney General's house
the bombing of federal buildings in D.C.
to bring Bonnie & Clyde to justice
prohibition
19
Why were the writers, artists, and musicians of the US called the "Lost Generation?"
Because of the lack of good works in the 20s
Because most of them died before old age
Because of the lack of living in the US
Most were not famous until death
20
Who was the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
Orville Wright
Howard Hughes
21
What was the movement of African Americans from the south to the north called?
The Great Migration
Emancipation
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
22
Though Prohibition was meant to stop domestic abuse, what did it create instead?
the collapse of the stock market
distrust for the government
organized crime
more segregation
23
Which is
NOT
a popular athlete from the 1920s?
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Jesse Owens
Babe Ruth
Gertrude Ederle
24
What type of media/invention began in January 1920 in the US?
The Television
The Radio
The Newspaper
The Computer
25
What amendment repealed Prohibition?
21st
19th
20th
22nd
