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