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Reviewing the Roaring Twenties
Reviewing the Roaring Twenties
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1
Which industry dramatically impacted America and changed it socially and economically during the 1920s?
stock market
steel factory
automobile
airplane
2
What did NOT fuel an economic boom during the 1920s?
overproduction of farm goods
installment buying
mass production
mass advertising
3
Time period of racial issues and racial problems in the 20s, where black tried to fight back as well?
Civil War
Red Summer
Civil Rights
Red Scare
4
Clarence Darrow and Williams Jennings Bryan both participated in this event?
Tulsa Massacres
Monkey Trials
Harlem Renaissance
Prohibition fight
5
The 3rd wave of this group of people took place in major cities during the "Red Summer" activities?
Ku Klux Klan
Temperance Movement
Red Scare
Bolsheviks
6
Paying a small payment, getting a product and then paying the rest of it off monthly?
stealing products
Buying on margin
Buying on credit
credit cards
7
The "RoaringTwenties" was also known as
the Jazz Age
Fad Fabulous
Times of Change
the Age of Rock
8
Blacks fought back against white society by writing about the issues of what...many examples by Langston Hughes?
Nationalism
Prohibition
Segregation
Unionism
9
Sacco and Vanzetti were two men whose execution demonstrated that
the United States welcomed honest immigrants
the Supreme Court was fair and thorough
the United States was fearful of foreigners
the Justice System is always appropriate to the situation
10
During the 1920's, the government's role in the U.S. economy was that the government should
control the means of production
promote the welfare state
interfere as little as possible
play a major role through regulatory action
11
This event was directly related to issues of the "Red Scare"?
Murder trial of Sacco & Vanzetti
creation of the CDC
The trial of John Scopes
creation of the 18th & 19th Amendments
12
Because of issues with immigrants in the US...what did the government begin to do?
Deport all immigrants
Make laws outlawing immigrants
Placing quotas on immigrants
giving more money to immigrants to assist them
13
A French Resistance agent & first black American to star in a movie was...
Emelia Earhart
Josephine Baker
Margaret Sanger
Charlie Chaplin
14
Lady who was a writer & educator who legalized contraception in US & developed organizations to help people?
Margaret Sanger
Mary Louis
Emilia Earhart
Gertrude Stein
15
Famous black poet of the Harlem Renaissance, innovator of Jazz poetry, and author of plays short stories & essays?
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
Martin Luther King, Jr.
16
This "Lost Generation" writer wrote The Great Gatsby in reference to the moral decay of society during the twenties?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Edith Wharton
17
Lenin & Trotsky were part of this group who overthrew Russia and brought communism ideals to America?
Commies
Bolsheviks
Anarchists
KKK
18
This new unofficial era began as a result of the $14 billion in the stock market crashing?
The Great Depression
Rise of Communism in America
The Cold War
World War II
19
Organized crime gangster that ran Chicago, only to fall to tax evasion?
Dutch Schultz
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
Al "Scarface" Capone
George "Bugs" Moran
20
In the famous "Monkey Trial", how was the defendant, John Scopes found...
guilty & executed for teaching evolution
innocent & free to teach evolution
guilty & fined $100
declared mentally insane & resulted in a hung jury
21
One goal of many Harlem Renaissance writers was to
Wanted African Americans to create their own political party
Cut off connections with mainstream American values
Support existing racial barriers
Increase pride in African American culture
22
This amendment gave women the right to vote in America?
21st
30th
19th
18th
23
This man challenged Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution in schools?
Clarence Darrow
John Scopes
Jack Dempsey
William Jennings Bryan
24
Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey & Lucille Bogan were all extremely popular & well known
Black politicians
Black Artists
Black athletes
Black Blues Singers
25
“The Red Scare” was a movement that showed how much our nation feared the establishing of
Idealism
Anarchism
Communism
Darwinism
26
This African American leader wanted blacks to move back to Africa and create their own black society there?
Marcus Garvey
WEB DeBois
Langston Hughes
Booker T. Washington
27
Went into effect in 1933 and repealed Prohibition in America?
18th Amendment
21st Amendment
1st Amendment
19th Amendment
28
Music, dance, novels & short stories, arts & culture...all dealing with or about black society was called?
Harlem Globetrotters
Black Renaissance
New York Culturalists
Harlem Renaissance
29
American female pilot who was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic but disappeared going across the Pacific?
Greta Garbo
Carrie Nation
Amelia Earhart
Margaret Sanger
30
Invention that reached the home of almost every American 50 million homes by 1925?
Televisions
Radios
Internet
Newspapers
31
One of the most famous roads developed to expand personal freedom & travel in US during this era?
US Route 66
Lincoln Highway
I-70
Million Dollar Highway
32
Buying on margin
allowed Americans to buy more stocks in a business
spread fear of communism
led to an increase in organized crime
placed severe limits on immigrants
33
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
an Olympic athlete
assembly line inventor
a home run king
nonstop NYC to Paris pilot
34
The law defined a drink as intoxicating if it contained more than 1% alcohol?
The Alcohol Law
The Volstead Act
The Prohibition Act
The Drunkard Law
35
Famous 1920s actor in silent movie comedies?
John Berrymore
Greta Garbo
Charlie Chaplin
Gary Cooper
36
New Orleans Jazz musician who's influence spread North & fostered music growth during the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Archibald Motley
Neil Armstrong
37
This guy was the heavyweight boxing champ in the 20's?
Jack Dempsey
James J. Braddock
Mike Tyson
George Foreman
38
In order to stand out and sell more goods, most companies turned to this in the 1920s to make greater profits?
discounts
Gimmicks
Name brands
Advertising
39
The Scopes Trial was about the teaching of Evolution...this upset what group of people in America?
Temperance
Fundamentalists
Nativists
Revolutionists
40
The Jazz Singer was the first motion picture without sound and called a...
Black & White movie
Twenties film
Soundless flick
Talkie
41
Tulsa, Oklahoma Greenwood district was known as?
Racial Hell
Black Renaissance
Red Summer
Black Wall Street
42
This movement wanted to prohibit the use and sale of alcohol
communist
temperance
anarchist
The No Alcolhol
43
This city saw racial violence explode as many poor whites were jealous & resented wealthy black citizens?
Tulsa
Denver
Chicago
New York
44
What was “Prohibition”?
men were forbidden to travel to Communist countries
women were not allowed to wear skimpy bathing suits
no one in the US could buy, sell or transport alcohol
women were not allowed to vote in political elections
45
The biggest negative that came from the Prohibition Era was...
Gambling & Organized crime increased dramatically in US
People began going to church once again
People stopped drinking
People began to divide on political lines
46
NASCAR was developed during prohibition era too...
create more competition within sporting events to gamble
to make fast & cool cars
to make fast cars with hiding places to outrun the law
make cars more popular
47
Harlem Renaissance artists who never actually lived in Harlem but his art influenced other black artists during the era?
Langston Hughes
Dick Rowland
Duke Ellington
Archibald Motley
48
Teapot Dome Scandal was the leased government lands to illegally drill for oil & get massive kickbacks. It was done by?
Chicago Mafia
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
The Ohio Gang
49
A bootlegger was...
someone who only wore boots
someone who made & sold alcohol
someone who made & sold drugs
someone who made leather boots
50
This law in 1919 that made the sale or manufacturing of alcohol illegal?
21st Amendment
25th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
51
Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson were all 1920 stars in...
horse racing
golf
baseball
football
52
Many of these new numbers & rise of immigrants, it created this in the US...
American pride
rising fears of communism & anarchy
overcrowding & extreme poverty in rural areas
working wages flourished
53
Flappers were:
females who broke against the traditional behavior
women who flew across the Atlantic
females who supported the war effort in WW1
women who fought for the right to vote
54
October 29, 1929 was best know for...
Black Thursday took place & the market crashed
Black Tuesday took place & the market crashed
Wilson signed the Treaty of Versailles
Lindbergh's son was kidnapped and killed
55
What was a “speakeasy”?
a new method to learn English
the slang used by young people
Al Capone’s automatic weapon
secret bars serving alcohol
56
Americans buying the new mass produced products and goods was known as?
Consumerism
Wasting money
Buying junk
Communism
57
Term for African-Americans move to northern cities for economic opportunities & escape racism
Great Escape
Great Migration
Black Migration
The Move
58
Attorney Gen. Palmer deported immigrants who were viewed as
conservatives
liberals
communists
nativists
59
19 year old black shoe shiner who was accused of assaulting a white girl, thus starting the Tulsa Massacres?
Dick Rowland
Paul Robeson
Dick Jergunson
Louis Armstrong
60
WEB DuBois fought to help protect African Americans, worked against lynching, wrote The Crisis & helped form this group?
NAACP
NFL
UFL
ACLU