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The 1920s saw a movement of African Americans to northern cities from the rural South. What is this movement called?
The Harlem Renaissance
The Great Migration
The Breadline Movement
The Progressive Movement
2
What was the primary reason for the rise of organized crime during the 1920s?
The women’s suffrage movement
The stock market
The Great Migration
Prohibition
3
Langston Hughes
a woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress
a city district where composers and publishers of popular music do business
Set of laws starting in 1921 that set qoutas for the number of immigrants.
This man was well known because of his poems.
4
Which amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol?
20th Amendment
19th Amendment
18th Amendment
21st Amendment
5
Which city is often regarded as the center of jazz music
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Chicago
New York
6
Red Scare
a period of general fear of communists
a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music
The founding of the United Nations
The opening of the Panama Canal
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Which form of literature questioned traditional values and talked about disillusionment during the 1920s?
Modernism
Realism
Naturalism
Romanticism
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Which style of music gained immense popularity during the Roaring 20s?
Jazz
Hip-Hop
Classical
Rock
9
What infamous gangster dominated organized crime in Chicago during the 1920s?
Al Capone
John Dillinger
Lucky Luciano
Bugsy Siegel
10
Which sport's popularity soared in the 1920s, particularly with figures like Babe Ruth?
Baseball
Tennis
Football
Basketball
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What was the cultural movement that celebrated African American art, music, and literature during the 1920s?
The Lost Generation
The New Deal
The Harlem Renaissance
The Jazz Age
12
What nickname was used to describe the decade of the 1920s in America?
The Golden Age
The Roaring Twenties
The Jazz Age
The Gilded Age
13
What was "Prohibition"?
Broadway musicals
Great Migration
no one in the US could buy, sell or transport alcohol
Silent films
14
The "RoaringTwenties" was also known as
Communism
isolationism
The Jazz age
Ku Klux Klan
15
Who was a famous jazz musician known for his trumpet playing during the 1920s?
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Bing Crosby
Frank Sinatra
16
What term was used to describe young women who challenged traditional norms of behavior in the 1920s?
Progressives
Socialites
Suffragettes
Flappers
17
What historical event ended in 1918, leading to the beginning of the 1920s?
The Great Depression
The Civil War
The Cold War
World War I
18
What was the name of the illegal bars where alcohol was sold during Prohibition?
Saloons
Clubs
Taverns
Speakeasies
19
The Scopes Trial was a famous legal case about what topic?
Evolution vs. Creationism
Civil Rights
Prohibition
Women's Suffrage
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What significant social movement focused on women's rights, particularly the right to vote?
The Temperance Movement
The Suffrage Movement
The Civil Rights Movement
The Labor Movement