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Roaring Twenties, 1920s, Roaring 20s, 1920-1929
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1
Which radical group wanted there to be no gov't at all?
anarchists
communists
socialists
nativists
2
This organization was trying to pass an anti-lynching law in the 1920s:
Black Panthers
NCAA
NAACP
UNIA
3
This term means a belief in a literal interpretation of the Bible
Catholicism
Strict Interpretationism
Fundamentalism
Literal Biblism
4
What were illegal bars during Prohibition called?
Party Houses
Bootleg Bar
Juke Joints
Speakeasies
5
What was the first animated movie with sound?
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Age
Birth of a Nation
Steamboat Willie
6
Which famous baseball player hit 60 home runs in 1927?
Babe Ruth
Babe Foster
Louis Armstrong
George Gershwin
7
Which one of Harding's friends was caught selling gov't hospital supplies to private companies and keeping the money?
Albert Fall
Herbert Hoover
Andrew Mellon
Charles Forbes
8
What was the name given to Warren G . Harding's hard-drinking, poker-playing buddies?
Pennsylvania Gang
Virginia Gang
New York Gang
Ohio Gang
9
Who was Warren G. Harding's Vice President?
Charles Forbes
Calvin Coolidge
Andrew Mellon
Herbert Hoover
10
What was the name of the literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture in the 1920s?
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Great Renaissance
Harlem Movement
11
This law was passed in order to enforce Prohibition:
Anti-alcohol Act
Fordney-McCumber Act
Prohibition Enforcement Act
Volstead Act
12
Which industry informed Americans about all of the new products available for purchase in the 1920s?
advertising
information
automotive
production availability
13
All of the following made life easier for homemakers in the 1920s
except :
radios
canned foods
ready-made clothes
sliced bread
14
Which term means a policy of pulling away from world affairs?
Social Darwinism
Nativism
Isolationism
Communism
15
Who wrote
The Great Gatsby
?
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Edward Hopper
16
What were the two main reasons African Americans moved from the South to the North?
to escape discrimination and for jobs
for schools and to escape discrimination
for jobs and schools
for schools and religious freedom
17
What happened to immigration to the US between 1919 and 1921?
it stayed about the same
it decreased
it increased
18
Which author criticized the glorification of war in his novels
The Sun Also Rises
and
A Farewell to Arms
?
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Edward Hopper
19
What was the biggest scandal of the Harding presidency?
the Teapot Dome Scandal
the Credit Mobilier Scandal
the Ukraine Scandal
the Watergate Scandal
20
What happened to factory productivity in the 1920s?
it went down a lot
it went up a lot
it stayed flat
21
Immigrants from which
two regions
were discriminated against by the immigration laws of the 1920s?
Eastern and Northern Europe
Western and Southern Europe
Northern and Western Europe
Southern and Eastern Europe
22
Who was Harding's Secretary of the Treasury?
Charles Forbes
Albert Fall
Herbert Hoover
Andrew Mellon
23
Who became president when Warren G. Harding died?
Andrew Mellon
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
24
Where did most Americans get their news before radio?
television and newspapers
magazines and television
telegraph and telephone
newspapers and magazines
25
Who was the Governor of Massachusetts during the Boston Police Strike?
John L. Lewis
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Warren Harding
26
What were marriages becoming based more upon in the 1920s?
money
necessity (had to get married)
romantic love
baby making
27
Which nativist group became very popular and gained lots of members in the 1920s?
Workingman's Party
Aryan Nation
American Protective Association
Ku Klux Klan
28
This theory says that all living things have changed over millions of years
Literal Biblism
Theory of Evolution
Scientific Theory
Grand Unified Theory
29
What was happening to the US birth rate in the 1920s?
it was decreasing
it was increasing
30
What was happening to high school enrollment between 1914 and 1926:
it tripled
it quadrupled
it went down
it doubled
31
Who became a model for young women who wanted to break away from tradition in the 1920s?
Zelda Scott
Margaret Sanger
Bessie Smith
Zelda Fitzgerald
32
Which two were Italian immigrants convicted and executed for the robbery and murder of two people?
Vanzetti and Sacco
Orlando and Vanzetti
Sacco and Orlando
Sacco and Mussolini
33
What was the name given to the movement of large numbers of African Americans from the South to the North?
Black Migration
Great Migration
African American Migration
Great Movement
34
Which amendment repealed Prohibition?
18th Amendment
21st Amendment
20th Amendment
19th Amendment
35
In a communist system, who/what would control all property and business?
private companies
the government
stockholders
wealthy business people
36
All of the following were groups targeted by the Palmer Raids
except
:
Communists
Socialists
Anarchists
Nativists
37
This term means that cities were spreading out in all directions:
urban spread
urban sprawl
urban migration
spread theory
38
Where was the first commercial radio station in the US located?
Pittsburgh, PA
Chicago, IL
New York, NY
Boston, MA
39
Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
Duke Ellington
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Marcus Garvey
40
What was the first commercial radio station in the US?
KDKA
KNBC
Y-102
WSFA
41
All of the following were Harlem Renaissance writers
except:
Ernest Hemingway
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Jean Toomer
42
What term means prejudice against foreign born people?
nativism
ethnic cleansing
isolationism
social darwinism
43
Which amendment prohibited alcohol in the US?
19th Amendment
18th Amendment
21st Amendment
20th Amendment
44
What young trumpet player of the 1920s became one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time
Cab Calloway
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
W. C. Handy
45
What happened to union membership in the US during the 1920s?
it was decreasing
it was increasing
it was staying about the same
46
Who was the first cabinet member in US history to be convicted of a felony?
Herbert Hoover
Andrew Mellon
Charles Forbes
Albert Fall
47
What happened to the cost of living during WWI?
it went up
it went down
it stayed flat
48
Which Alabama-born composer is credited with "inventing" the Blues?
Bessie Smith
Cab Calloway
W. C. Handy
Louis Armstrong
49
Who was the highest-paid black artist (and female artist) of the 1920s?
Bessie Smith
Helen Wills
Gertrude Ederle
Jean Toomer
50
What did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff do to tariff rates?
decreased them a little
decreased them a lot
increased them a little
increased them a lot
51
Who was the first person to fly solo, non-stop, across the Atlantic in 1927?
Rube Foster
Louis Armstrong
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
52
Which term means making regular payments to pay for something because you didn't have the full amount to pay all at once
installment plan
rent-to-own
title pawn
monthly plan
53
Which two religious groups were hit especially hard by the immigration restrictions in the 1920s?
Jews and Protestants
Jews and Catholics
Catholics and Protestants
Muslims and Hindus
54
Who wanted African Americans to go to back to Africa?
Louis Armstrong
W. C. Handy
Marcus Garvey
Duke Ellington
55
People who smuggled illegal alcohol were called:
Rednecks
Speakeasies
Bootleggers
Whiskey Runners
56
What was the most powerful means of communication to emerge in the 1920s?
television
newspapers
radio
magazines
57
Where did most Americans live after 1920?
Rural areas
Cities
in the Midwest
on the West Coast
58
Who came up with the term "Jazz Age?"
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edward Hopper
Sinclair Lewis
59
Where did Lenin and the Bolsheviks come to power?
France
Germany
Russia
Italy
60
Which international agreement attempted to ban war forever?
Washington Naval Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Versailles
61
What was the Scopes Trial about?
Birth Control
Abortion
Evolution
Prohibition