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Organization whose roots derive from bootlegging:
F1
NBA
MLB
NASCAR
2
Fear over Communism in the 1920s:
McCarthy Era
Crimson Tide
Red Wave
Red Scare
3
This machine profoundly changed America’s 1920s landscape:
Automobiles
Airplanes
Locomotives
Washing Machines
4
When Russia became Communist their name was changed to the…
Russian Federation
Czarist Republic
United Soviet Socialists Republic
Enclave of Siberia
5
Economic and political system
based on a totalitarian rule, no private property...
Terrorism
Elitism
Communism
Socialism
6
Scopes won his trial, allowing him to continue teaching evolution in Tennessee. True or False.
False
True
7
Most influential Jazz musician in History. (from New Orleans)
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Fletcher Henderson
Bessie Smith
8
Who flew the
Spirit of Saint Louis
for the first trans-Atlantic flight?
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Ralph Earnhardt
Eddie Rickenbacker
9
High School enrollment increased during the 1920s. True or False?
False
True
10
One of the main goals of the NAACP in the 20s was to fight lynching with legislation. T or F?
False
True
11
Many Americans began using electric appliances during the 1920s. True or False?
True
False
12
Wrote the Great Gatsby:
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Scott Fitzgerald
Frank Scott Fitzgerald
Fitz Scot Fitzgerald
13
The belief that one’s nation should stay out of foreign affairs:
Isolationism
A. Contentious objection
B. Internalism
Pacificism
14
People who illegally transported alcohol during prohibition:
Speakeasies
Gangsters
Moon men
Bootleggers
15
Famous 20s composer who wrote
Rhapsody in Blue
.
Louis Armstrong
John Williams
George Gershwin
John Dos Passos
16
The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 was created mainly to restrict immigrants from?
Eastern Europe
Mexico
Africa
Canada
17
Famous Chicago gangster who killed off his competition bringing alcohol into the city:
Al Capone
Al Pacino
El Chapo
Baby Face Nelson
18
Manufacturing dropped in the 1920s due to the end of??
World War One
Calvin Coolidge’s presidency
Unrestricted immigration from Europe
The automobile
19
Many products of the 1920s were being purchased on ___________ plans.
Installment
Credit
Leasing
Loan
20
What proved to ultimately be the most popular medium in the 1920s?
Magazines
Television
Plays
Radio
21
1920s African American literary and artistic revival in a part of NYC:
New York Renaissance
The Brooklyn Revival
Harlem Renaissance
The Apollo refurbishment
22
One of the largest strikes of the 1920s was by policemen in Chicago. T or F?
True
False
23
Anti-immigrant hysteria in the U.S. gave rise to what hate group from Reconstruction?
Ku Klux Klan
Communists
Skin Heads
Black Panthers
24
The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 also completely banned immigration from…
China
Japan
Italy
The Phillipines
25
The ____ defended Scopes and who was the prosecuting attorney?
ACRU; William Lloyd Garrison
SPLC; William McKinley
KKK; Clarence Darrow
ACLU; William Jennings Bryan
26
This individual believed that African Americans should return to Africa to unify it.
Rodney Harlem
Marcus Garvey
Dennis Rodman
Malcolm X
27
Who led Communist Bolsheviks to take over Czarist Russia?
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Putin
Vasily Zaytsev
Vladimir Lenin
28
John L. Lewis helped which Union receive a 27% pay raise?
United Auto Workers
United Mine Workers
Union of American Teachers
United Steel Workers
29
Walt Disney’s first animated film:
The Lion King
Steamboat Willie
The Mickey Mouse Movie
The Jazz Singer
30
By 1920 more Americans lived in rural areas than in the city. True or False?
False
True
31
Many Americans in the 20s began accumulating discretionary income. What's Discretionary income?
Income from Discrets
Money left over from taxes and mandatory bills.
Income from businesses
Money from government for overpaying taxes
32
Birth rates went up as a result of the prosperity during the 1920s. True or False?
True
False
33
American airline that first began transatlantic flights:
Pan-American
American Airways
United Airlines
Delta
34
By 1920, America held what % of the world’s vehicles?
90%
50%
75%
80%
35
Secret places where people drank alcohol during prohibition:
Bootleggers
Speakeasies
Alcohomes
Booze Caves
36
The 1920s was not a very good time for Unions or Organized Labor. True or False?
False
True
37
The Scopes trial was centered around the teaching of ___________ in Tennessee schools.
Communism
Evolution
Anatomy
Religion
38
Why did president Harding’s cabinet member Albert Fall allow drilling on federal reserves?
Fall received kickbacks (money for the deal going through)
Fall’s family claimed it was there
Harding said it was O.K.
The Navy needed the oil for war.
39
The 1920s featured psychologists being paid to help advertisers. True or False?
True
False
40
The man who builds a factory builds a temple. He who works there also ________ there.
Dies
Builds
Worships
Prays
41
Young, independent women of the 1920s who kept up with the latest fashions and attitudes:
“Flappers”
“Jazzies”
“Charlie angels”
“Modern Betties”
42
This location became the largest black urban community in the world:
Baltimore
New Orleans
Harlem
Compton
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Best known poet of the Harlem Renaissance:
Howard Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay