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1
What do we call the amount of work each worker can do?
capitalism
reform
productivity
progressivism
2
What is an economic system based on private property and free enterprise?
communism
capitalism
fascism
socialism
3
What do we call the period in the 1920s when the government went after suspected communists?
Red Scare
Emergency Quota
Red Summer
Prohibition
4
In his presidential campaign, Warren G. Harding said that America needed a return to
libertarianism
prosperousness
normalcy
virtuosity
5
What is paying over a period of time?
installment buying
capitalism
supply and demand
productivity
6
What city was home to many artists of the Harlem Renaissance?
Detroit
New Orleans
Chicago
New York City
7
In the 1920s what Hollywood industry became one of the country's leading businesses?
steel
motion pictures
automobiles
bootlegging
8
What was the blossoming of African American culture during the 1920s?
Harlem Globetrotters
Harlem Shake
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Revolution
9
What do we call people who believe in having no government?
socialists
Reds
Bolsheviks
anarchists
10
What word means: to be sent out of a country?
deluded
demoted
delivered
deported
11
Who won the presidential election of 1928?
Calvin Coolidge
Alfred E. Smith
William Jennings Bryan
Herbert Hoover
12
Which one of the following was a famous writer of the Harlem Renaissance?
Suzanne Collins
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
Babe Ruth
13
What law first established a quota system for immigration?
Teapot Dome Act
National Origins Act
Emergency Quota Act
Scopes Act
14
In what treaty did world powers agree to disarm?
Treaty of Versailles
Five-Power Treaty
Scopes Treaty
Treaty of Paris
15
Which of the lawyers in the 1925 Scopes trial was a strong opponent of evolution?
Charles Darwin
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
William Jefferson Clinton
16
Which constitutional amendment enacted Prohibition?
Eighteenth
Fifteenth
Nineteenth
Twenty-first
17
Which president said: "The chief business of the American people is business...."?
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
18
Where was support for Prohibition strongest?
the suburbs of New York City
the cities
the West Coast
the rural South and Midwest
19
What is a national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs?
progressivism
imperialism
isolationism
socialism
20
What does this photo show?
an assembly line
a subway system
a power plant
a water-powered mill
21
What is a downturn in business activity called?
reform
capitalism
production
recession
22
What did employers use to keep workers from joining unions?
increased productivity
installment buying
welfare capitalism
assembly lines
23
When the Boston police force went on strike in 1919, they all were
given raises
fired
supported by the governor
given shorter hours
24
For what type of music is the 1920s most remembered?
rock
bluegrass
jazz
classical
25
What are types of communication that reach large numbers of people?
expatriates
flappers
mass media
yellow journalism
26
What is the total value of all goods and services produced by a nation?
supply and demand
gross national product
productivity
recession
27
What do we call people who give up their home country and live abroad?
expatriates
extortionists
flappers
socialists
28
The belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners is called
nativism
nationalism
urbanism
isolationism
29
What group faced serious economic difficulties during the 1920s?
fisherman
freemasons
fire fighters
farmers
30
Who were the Democratic candidates for president and vice-president in 1920?
Bryan & Darrow
Cox & Roosevelt
Harding & Coolidge
McKinley & Roosevelt
31
Which constitutional amendment overturned an earlier amendment?
Twenty-first
Eighteenth
Nineteenth
Twentieth
32
What challenge did Charles Lindbergh take up in 1927?
flying nonstop across Canada
building the first helicopter
the first trans-Atlantic flight
the first commercial pilot
33
What was a
speakeasy
?
an illegal bar
a police informant
a women's center
a temperance organization
34
Americans could purchase products like new cars by using
mass production
welfare capitalism
installment buying
purchasing power
35
What were young "liberated" women of the 1920s called?
flirts
flappers
flippers
flames
36
During the 1920s which city became the automobile manufacturing center of the world?
Detroit
Baltimore
Atlanta
Cleveland
37
The Sacco and Vanzetti case revealed American prejudice against
the rich and powerful
foreigners and radicals
the poor and homeless
African Americans and Asians
38
Through which business did Al Capone supply a popular demand during the 1920s?
importing rare art objects
financing and building skyscrapers
publishing city newspapers
making and selling illegal alcohol
39
Which president's administration was marked by scandals involving the Ohio Gang?
Warren G. Harding
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
William Howard Taft
40
What was a popular nickname for President Coolidge?
Silent Cal
Cal the Cool
Conservative Cal
Silver-tongued Cal
41
Which of these did Marcus Garvey support?
unlimited immigration
a back-to-Africa movement
integration
communism
42
Racial tensions led to violent rioting during the summer of 1919 in which major city?
Chicago
Boston
Detroit
Atlanta
43
Eighteen strikers died in what industry's strike in 1919?
coal miners
railroad workers
steelworkers
Boston police