America Opportunity and Inequality 1920-1973 Part 1 The Boom

Question 1

Newspapers and radio made which sportsman of the 1920s a hero and celebrity?

Accepted Answer

Babe Ruth - Baseball

Question 2

What percentage of Americans still lived in poverty despite the economic boom?

Accepted Answer

60%

Question 3

Henry Ford is credited with developing....?

Accepted Answer

The Assembly Line

Question 4

What were the names of the 2 Italian immigrants who were executed by electric chair for murder?

Accepted Answer

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 5

The black cultural movement that began in Harlem, New York in the 1920s had what slogan?

Accepted Answer

Black is Beautiful

Question 6

Fashionable, affluent young women in the 1920's were referred to as?

Accepted Answer

Flappers

Question 7

Segregation laws in the USA were named after which black minstrel character?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow

Question 8

What were illegal drinking and music venues during prohibition called?

Accepted Answer

Speakeasies

Question 9

In the 20s, 70% of European immigration to the USA passed through Ellis Island - also known as?

Accepted Answer

The Island of Tears

Question 10

Hanging without a trial, usually by a mob, is called?

Accepted Answer

Lynching

Question 11

Who made animated films that became hits during the 1920's?

Accepted Answer

Walt Disney

Question 12

Which of these best describes the KKK?

Accepted Answer

White Supremacists

Question 13

What is the Volstead Act better known as?

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 14

How many African Americans were lynched in 1921?

Accepted Answer

61

Question 15

The first Talkie (movie with sound), starring Al Jolson, was called what?

Accepted Answer

The Jazz Singer

Question 16

What does this statement refer to?

Accepted Answer

The American Dream

Question 17

In terms of immigration, what is a pull factor?

Accepted Answer

A positive reason to move to a country

Question 18

By 1932, how many speakeasies were there in New York alone?

Accepted Answer

32000

Question 19

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 20

How many tests did immigrants have to pass before being allowed into the US?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 21

Prohibition made the production and sale of what illegal?

Accepted Answer

Alcohol

Question 22

Women gained the right to vote on August 18th 1920 because of.....?

Accepted Answer

The 19th Amendment

Question 23

Prohibition agents had to patrol 18,600 miles of border, but how many agents were there?

Accepted Answer

4000

Question 24

Which of these did not help create the 'consumer society'?

Accepted Answer

President Herbert Hoover

Question 25

What genre of music became increasingly popular during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Jazz

Question 26

Which Chicago based gangster increased his fortune thanks to prohibition?

Accepted Answer

Al Capone

Question 27

What does this image show?

Accepted Answer

The cycle of prosperity

Question 28

What is the 1920's often referred to as?

Accepted Answer

The Roaring Twenties

Question 29

Which of these 4 statements is true during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Women had the right to vote

Question 30

The tests were a medical test, a questionnaire, and what?

Accepted Answer

A literacy test

Question 31

The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism is more commonly referred to as?

Accepted Answer

A Red Scare

Question 32

Whats does 'Rugged Individualism' mean?

Accepted Answer

People should be able to succeed on their own

Question 33

What was it called when the U.S.As economy developed rapidly with industry making advancements?

Accepted Answer

The Economic Boom

Question 34

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Charlie Chaplin

Question 35

Prohibition began in 1920. When did it end?

Accepted Answer

1933

Question 36

What republican policy gave business freedom to operate without government interference?

Accepted Answer

Laissez faire

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