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Chapter 22 The Roaring Twenties
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#Roaring Twenties #Chapter 22
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1
Which group was treated most favorably by 1920s immigration laws?
Southern Europeans
Asians
Eastern Europeans
People from the Americas
2
Which invention encouraged tourism and created new businesses in the 1920s?
the automobile
the refrigerator
the radio
silent films
3
Who sent troops to Nicaragua to protect American business interests?
Langston Hughes
Calvin Coolidge
Charles Lindbergh
4
Which athlete was a celebrated baseball player in the 1920s?
Helen wills
Bobby Jones
Babe Ruth
Jack Dempsey
5
What did these three writers have in common?
They criticized American middle-class culture.
They arrived from Africa in the 1920s.
They were expatriates.
They were members of the Harlem Renaissance.
6
One cause of the industrial boom in the 1920s
Prohibition
Disarmament
Communism
Installment buying
7
T or F: The Ku Klux Klan scorned blacks, immigrants, Catholics, and Jews.
True
False
8
Which of the following led to the quick spread of jazz music?
the Universal Negro Improvement Association
the Radio
the Charleston
Hollywood films
9
The booming stock market in the 1920s. (pick either one of the two correct choices)
made most Americans wealthy.
discouraged people from borrowing money to buy stocks.
ended unemployment in the United States.
encouraged people to borrow money to buy stocks.
10
What became widespread due to Prohibition?
organized crime and violence
immigration from the Caribbean
immigration from Canada
respect for the law
11
The first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.
Calvin Coolidge
Langston Hughes
Charles Lindbergh
Sinclair Lewis
12
In which presidential election did American women first vote?
the 1916 election
the 1920 election
the 1928 election
the 1924 election
13
Americans responded to Wilson's work at the Paris Peace Conference by...
choosing a different Democrat for president in 1920.
re-electing him for another four years
erecting a monument in Washington, D.C., honoring him.
rejecting him and the Democrats in the 1920 election.
14
Who claimed credit for the economic prosperity of the 1920s?
the Catholics
The Republicans
the Democrats
the Quakers
15
Why did American postwar strikes trouble many Americans?
The strikers often blocked traffic.
Americans did not want foreigners to be deported.
People were afraid a Communist revolution was beginning.
People were afraid another world war was brewing.
16
Women often wore Chinese-style silk gowns when...
they danced the Charleston.
they sat on flagpoles.
they went to jazz clubs.
they went to Mahjong clubs.
17
The Nineteenth Amendment made it possible for women to vote in the 1920 presidential election.
False
True
18
For what is "installment buying" another term?
theft
buying on credit
trade
charity giving
19
How did radio change American life in the 1920s?
It made it easier for families to move to the suburbs.
gave women a public voice and a place to air their concerns
It increased racial and religious tensions.
exposed the nation to the same information and entertainment
20
T or F: The automobile discouraged tourism among middle-class American families.
True
False
21
Some writers were so disillusioned with America that the ...
held protests at libraries that would not carry their work.
became expatriates.
embraced babbittry.
stopped writing.
22
What began as a way to conserve grains in the 1920?
Prohibition
Communism
Installment buying
disarmament
23
Which cause belongs on the blank line of the chart?
Administration was involved in Teapot Dome scandal
Coolidge reward business friends with government appointment
Federal government slashed the budget
Economic recession hit the United States
24
What reform movement resulted in the Eighteenth Amendment?
isolationism
temperance movement
A women's suffrage movement
anti-Communism
25
Who was famous for his deeds as a pilot?
Bobby Jones
Charles Lindbergh
Jack Dempsey
Johnny Weissmuller
26
T or F: Before 1927, motion pictures were talkies.
True
False
27
Why did some Americans dislike jazz music?
they thought jazz was too slow and lacked rhythm.
vinyl recordings of jazz were expensive.
They thought jazz encouraged frivolity and undermined morals
They could not find jazz clubs in smaller cities.
28
What became a symbol of a 1920s woman?
the women voters
the flapper
the female wartime factory workers
female jazz singers
29
What innovation resulted in cheaper automobiles?
chains of gas stations
the growth of suburbs
the assembly line
improved methods of auto repair
30
La Guardia made this statement to suggest that...
These businesses should be shut down along with saloons.
Prohibition had been a huge success.
Getting rid of saloons moved liquor sales to other locations
Organized crime figures operated out of these businesses.
31
Which of the following statements best explains the situation shown on the graph?
As people invested money in stocks, they bought more goods.
Americans were in debt to buy things they couldn't afford.
Personal debt rose at the beginning then stabilized.
Wealthy Americans were spending a lot of money.
32
What was the first major talking picture?
The Jazz Singer
The Kid
King Kong
The Scopes Trial
