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1
Which amendment appealed National Prohibition, allowing the sale/drinking of alcohol in 1933?
18th Amendment
21st Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
2
Which of the following BEST describes a flapper?
rebellious lady who wanted to drink, smoke, have a good time
A modest women who obeyed her parents
women who campaigned for the legalization of the "Moral Gown
A women who thought men should stay home
3
Flappers wore their hair
Long but piled loosely on top of the head
Short and bobbed
4
Which of the following is an achievement of Margaret Sanger?
opened the first family planning clinic
Introduced the Equal Rights Amendment to Congress
First women elected to the Senate
First president of the League of Women Voters
5
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer believed that he needed to protect the American people from?
big business
political radicals
corruption and fraud
labor union members
6
National Prohibition was successful in the United States
True
False
7
This gave women full voting rights.
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
NAACP
Speakeasys
8
The failure of national Prohibition led to a public awareness that?
economic prosperity encourages social conformity
crime rates decline when the sale of alcohol is banned
unpopular laws are difficult to enforce
geographic conditions affect law enforcement
9
What issue was central to the Scopes Trial?
reciting prayers in public schools
teaching creative design in public schools unconstitutional
teaching evolution or creationism in public schools
10
The Red Scare refers to?
Fear of socialist and communists in the United States
Changing fashion colors
The largest mafia murder in the 1920s
A fearful loss of blood
11
One of the most prevalent gangsters out of Chicago during the 1920s was?
Frank Costello
Whitey B
Al Capone
Sonny Corleone
12
The“Great Migration” of 1910-1920 refers to the movement of?
African Americans from the south to northern cities
Immigrants from Europe to America
African Americans from the US to Africa
People from rural areas to large cities
13
What was a major result of Prohibition in the United States?
destruction of family values
increase in organized crime
restriction of immigration
growth of communism
14
The Harlem Renaissance was a period when African Americans?
used civil disobedience to fight segregation
Created noteworthy works of art and literature
migrated to the West in search of land and jobs
Left the US in large numbers to settle in Africa
15
What dance became popular in the 20s.
The Jive
The Tango
The Charleston
The Twist
16
Which of the following was NOT used for advertising in the 1920's?
Billboards
TV
Radio
Magazines
17
People who brought liquor into the country illegally were called?
Speakeasy's
Bootleggers
Moonshiners
Gangsters
18
During prohibition, individuals drank more than ever before?
False
True
19
To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden clubs known as?
Tenements
Speakeasys
Tea Rooms
Penthouses
20
Charles Lindbergh was famous as a(n)?
pilot
politican
composer
inventor
21
This amendment led to Prohibition in the United States during the 1920s
20th Amendment
21st Amendment
19th Amendment
18th Amendment
22
This Harlem Renaissance activist promoted the "back to Africa" belief.
Langston Hughes
W.E.B. DuBois
Bessie Smith
Marcus Garvey
23
The Harlem Renaissance refers to?
A celebration of African-Americanculture in literature/art
A program to promote African-American owned businesses
A population increases in Harlem in the1920s
A struggle for civil rights led by the NAACP
24
The 1920s are sometimes called the "Roaring Twenties" because?
widespread social and economic change occurred
political reforms made government more democratic
US assumed a leadership role in world affairs
foreign trade prospered after WWI
25
What do Gertrude Ederle, Babe Ruth and Jim Thorpe all have in common?
They all owned a major broadcasting company
They all were celebrity athletes during the 1920s
They all pushed for equal rights amendment
They all starred in the first film that used sound
