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Red Scare
The founding of the United Nations
a period of general fear of communists
a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music
The opening of the Panama Canal
2
The Scopes Trial was a famous legal case about what topic?
Women's Suffrage
Evolution vs. Creationism
Civil Rights
Prohibition
3
What was the name of the illegal bars where alcohol was sold during Prohibition?
Saloons
Clubs
Taverns
Speakeasies
4
What infamous gangster dominated organized crime in Chicago during the 1920s?
Bugsy Siegel
John Dillinger
Lucky Luciano
Al Capone
5
What nickname was used to describe the decade of the 1920s in America?
The Roaring Twenties
The Jazz Age
The Golden Age
The Gilded Age
6
The 1920s saw a movement of African Americans to northern cities from the rural South. What is this movement called?
The Breadline Movement
The Great Migration
The Harlem Renaissance
The Progressive Movement
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What was "Prohibition"?
Silent films
Great Migration
Broadway musicals
no one in the US could buy, sell or transport alcohol
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Which form of literature questioned traditional values and talked about disillusionment during the 1920s?
Romanticism
Modernism
Realism
Naturalism
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Which style of music gained immense popularity during the Roaring 20s?
Jazz
Classical
Hip-Hop
Rock
10
Which amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol?
20th Amendment
18th Amendment
21st Amendment
19th Amendment
11
What was the cultural movement that celebrated African American art, music, and literature during the 1920s?
The Harlem Renaissance
The Lost Generation
The New Deal
The Jazz Age
12
What significant social movement focused on women's rights, particularly the right to vote?
The Labor Movement
The Temperance Movement
The Civil Rights Movement
The Suffrage Movement
13
Which city is often regarded as the center of jazz music
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Chicago
New York
14
What historical event ended in 1918, leading to the beginning of the 1920s?
The Cold War
The Civil War
The Great Depression
World War I
15
Which sport's popularity soared in the 1920s, particularly with figures like Babe Ruth?
Basketball
Baseball
Football
Tennis
16
The "RoaringTwenties" was also known as
Ku Klux Klan
Communism
isolationism
The Jazz age
17
What was the primary reason for the rise of organized crime during the 1920s?
The stock market
The Great Migration
Prohibition
The women’s suffrage movement
18
Langston Hughes
a city district where composers and publishers of popular music do business
a woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress
Set of laws starting in 1921 that set qoutas for the number of immigrants.
This man was well known because of his poems.
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What term was used to describe young women who challenged traditional norms of behavior in the 1920s?
Socialites
Progressives
Suffragettes
Flappers
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Who was a famous jazz musician known for his trumpet playing during the 1920s?
Frank Sinatra
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Bing Crosby