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