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1
F. Scott Fitgerald wrote ___________, which portrayed the negative side of 1920's extravagant living.
The Gilded Age
The Great Gatsby
A Farewell to Arms
A Seperate Peace
2
The Harlem Renaissance started in __________________________'s Harlem neighborhood.
New York City
Miami
Chicago
Seattle
3
_________________ danced in jazz clubs and engaged in behaviors associated with men.
Athletes
Ballerinas
Flappers
Artists
4
New _______________________ made household chores less time consuming.
computers
laws
organizations
technologies
5
Movies, sports and radio remained popular forms of entertainment during the Civil War.
False
True
6
_______________________ became America's favorite pastime.
Juggling
Football
Baseball
Basketball
7
Women who did work outside the home often held jobs in "women's professions" such as _________________ or domestic work.
civil service
medicine
construction
teaching
8
_____________________'s, KDKA was the first commercial radio station in the US, and it went on air in 1920.
New York
Tampa
Pittsburg
Springfield
9
The crash of the Hindenburg, a Japanese airship, in New Jersey was broadcast as it occured.
False
True
10
Every adult held in a ___________________ internment camp was required to answer a loyality questionnaire.
Russian
German
Italian
Japanese
11
________________'s roles in the United States before 1920 were very traditional.
men
nurses
children
women
12
Professional ______________ became popular during the 1920's, because people could listen to games on the radio.
jobs
sports
chef's
magazines
13
Russia was transformed into the ________________ after the revolution in 1917.
PSSR
USSS
URRT
USSR
14
The Grapes of Wrath detailed the difficult lives of Oklahomans leaving for California during the ________________.
Hurricane Ivan
Dust Bowl
Rose Bowl
Orange Bowl
15
Women were held to a stricter set of standards for behaviors than ________, in the 1920's.
politicians
employers
men
children
16
With the economic boom of the 1920's, ___________ no longer needed to have jobs.
children
women
men
animals
17
Teenagers in the 1920's had more freedom than previous generations because they were able to ___________________.
drive
work
go to school
sleep in
18
____________________ was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris in 1927.
Winston Churchill
John Washington
Rudolph Valentino
Charles Lindbergh.
19
__________________, were secret clubs that served alcohol during Prohibition.
Fraternities
Bars
Speakeasies
Sororities
20
Stalin took over after the death of Vladimir ________________________.
Lenin
Spillet
Smith
Eisenhinder
21
The __________________ dominated baseball with greats such as Babe Ruth,, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio.
Chicago White Sox
Boston Red Sox
Pittsburgh Pirates
New York Yankees
22
Jazz began in the early 1900's in ___________________________.
Boston, Massachusetts
New York City, New York
New Orleans, Louisiana
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
23
After World War I Germany was in chaos, its new government the _________________, signed the Treaty of Versailles.
The USSR
Weimer Republic
The Finnish Empire
Prussia Republic
24
The Roaring 20's came to halt when the stock market crashed on ______________.
Black Tuesday
Green Friday
Orange Saturday
Manic Monday
25
Baseball became America's favorite pastime in the _______________.
1930's
1940's
1910's
1920's
26
Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the ________________ in 1926, at the age of 19.
Atlantic Ocean
Mississippi River
English Channel
Gulf of Mexico
27
The ____ Amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote.
18th
19th
16th
17th
28
Americans were listening, watching, reading, & buying the same things, resulting in a time of ___________.
producing culture
consumer culture
mass culture
art culture
29
On December 7, 1941 __________________ attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Japan
Germany
Italy
The Ottoman Empire
30
Some of the ________________ work programs supported artists and many were paid to create public murals and teach art.
Early Deal
New Deal
Old Deal
Late Deal
31
___________________ women usually stayed home,while their husbands worked in a job outside the home.
educated
married
employed
single
32
Joseph Stalin was a part of the _______________ Revolution in Russia.
Bolshevik
Asian
Stallengrad
Western European
33
George Gershwin was a musical composer.
True
False
34
Women began to assert their independence & called for the same freedoms as men, resulting in the "______" of the 1920's.
old laws
flapper
new laws
New Woman
35
African Americans voicing pride in their heritage and embracing their culture is known as the _____________ Renaissance.
Soho
Brooklyn
Harlem
Chelsea
36
The movement of African Americans to the North from the South is known as the Great _________________.
Movement
Migration
Celebration
Hibernation
37
The US entered the Great _________________ in the 1930's.
Depression
Elation
Salutation
War
38
In 1919, Mussolini organized the _____________ Party in Italy.
Communist
Capitalist
Socialist
Fascist
39
___________________'s Nazi political party, rose to power in Germany in 1933.
Churchill
Roosevelt
Hitler
Mussolini
40
President Franklin D. Roosevelt held ___________________ to speak directly to the American people to keep them informed.
seaside vacations
fireside chats
public barbaques
television broadcasts
41
The USS ______________ suffered a bomb through its decks causing it to sink in minutes with 1300 sailors on board.
California
Arizona
Michigan
Indianapolis
42
In the 1920's people went to dance marathons and danced to _____________ music for hours.
opera
jazz
classical
rock and roll
43
Hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved from the South to the North to escape _______________ laws.
Jim Crow
James Bird
John Smith
Joe Wren
44
From 1914-1926, the number of children enrolled in high school rose from 1 million to ___________________.
2 million
5 million
3 million
4 million
45
The first movies with sound were released in _______________.
1925
1920
1921
1927
46
Harlem became the world's largest black community in the 1920's.
False
True
47
_________________ were important to Americans, because they could listen to current events and news.
televisions
telegraphs
radios
telegrams
48
Ernest Hemingway was wounded in World War 1 and he wrote novels criticized the glorification of war.
True
False
49
When the US entered _________________, many men had to leave their jobs.
The Vietnam War
World War II
World War I
The Korean War
50
Helen Wells dominated women's __________ by winning Wimbledon eight times.
golf
tennis
soccer
fencing