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Which is NOT true about jazz?
Which is NOT true about movies in the Roaring 20s?
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Which is NOT true about movies in the Roaring 20s?
they were in color
the first animated film was "Steamboat Willie"
the first "talkie" was The Jazz Singer
they were black and white
2
Which is NOT true about jazz?
It combined West African rhythms with European harmonies
the older generation loved it
it started in New Orleans
3
Who was a famous movie star of the 1920s?
Sigmund Freud
Babe Ruth
Charles Lindberg
Charlie Chaplin
4
Who was the first pilot to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean?
Langston Hughes
Amelia Earhart
Satchel Page
Charles Lindberg
5
What was NOT an effect of the rise of mass culture due to radio?
allowed Americans across the country to share experiences
people listened to news, weather, music, bedtime stories
businesses started advertising on the radio
emphasized difference between rural and urban life
6
Which is
not
true of Calvin Coolidge?
focused on relationships with foreign countries
took over when Harding died of a heart attack
fired officials involved in scandals and bribery
campaign slogan was "Keep Cool with Coolidge"
7
Which industry greatly aided the economic boom by creating jobs and new businesses in the 20s?
automobile
banking
coal mining
cattle ranching
8
Famous gangster from Chicago who controlled the illegal alcohol trade & murdered his rivals
Maxwell Crain
Al Capone
Alfred Smith
Louis Armstrong
9
Who was a famous psychologist who tried to figure out why people behaved the way the do?
Josh Gibson
Bessie Smith
Sigmund Freud
Louis Armstrong
10
How was Henry Ford able to make the Model T so affordable?
12 hour work day boosted production
government subsidies to keep the cost down
rewarded hard workers with car vouchers for free cars
by using the moving assembly line
11
Which famous novel was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald about the loose morality of the 20s?
The Lost Generation
The Great Gatsby
The Big Ban Theory
The Teapot Dome Scandal
12
What led to the nickname, "Roaring 20s?" Choose both.
booming economy once the recession after WW1 ended
many people had house pets for the first time
circuses became popular entertainment
exciting entertainment
13
True or False: High school attendance dropped in the 1920s.
false
true
14
The 1920s was a time of clashes and tension over values between the...
Native Americans and immigrants
rich and poor Americans
traditional rural and modern urban Americans
women and men of America
15
Famous jazz trumpeter
Louis Armstrong
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zora Neale Hurston
Calvin Coolidge
16
Af. American leader who encouraged blacks to express pride in their culture-black nationalism
Sigmund Freud
Marcus Garvey
Satchel Page
William Jennings Bryan
17
A period of artistic achievement for African Americans in the 1920s
Lost Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Palmer Raids
Jazz Age
18
What was a concern over Alfred Smith's campaign for the election of 1928 against Hoover?
Smith was a bootlegger
Smith was a drug addict
Smith was a Catholic
Smith was a gangster from Chicago
19
What kind of architecture was popular during the 1920s?
Harlem Renaissance
art deco
black and white
Charleston
20
The Scopes Trial was about...
segregation in schools
accepting bribes/gifts in exchange for federal oil reserves
teaching evolution in public high schools
anarchists accused of murder and robbery
21
Who was known for accepting bribes from oil companies in the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Calvin Coolidge
Albert Fall
Al Capone
Warren G. Harding
22
"Lost Generation" writer who won the first American Nobel Prize for literature
Charles Lindberg
Louis Armstrong
Sinclair Lewis
Langston Hughes
23
What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact try to outlaw?
alcohol
pickles
war
guns
24
True or False: Women found jobs in politics in the 1920s.
true
false
25
What caused the Palmer Raids?
a strike in support of Communism
a robbery and murder in a shoe factory
attorney general had a bomb explode outside his home
the KKK put a flaming cross on a senator's lawn
26
Who was a famous female author during the Harlem Renaissance?
Zora Neale Hurston
Betty Boop
Mary Pickford
Amelia Earhart
27
Citizens who leave their countries to live elsewhere
exports
illegal aliens
expatriates
natives
28
Why were some American writers of the 20s called the "Lost Generation?"
appreciated the Jazz Age
they returned to Paris, their original hometown
expressed feelings of dissatisfaction with America
suffered from racism
29
What was the result of the Scopes trial?
John Scopes was found innocent
John Scopes was fined $100
John Scopes was put in jail for 10 years
John Scopes was executed
30
True or False: The KKK discriminated against Catholics, Jews, and immigrants in the 20s.
false
true
31
Who was NOT a famous author of the "Lost Generation?"
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Babe Ruth
Sinclair Lewis
32
What was the time of fear of Communism called?
the Black Hand
the Shimmy
the Red Scare
the Jazz Age
33
Which is NOT true of Sacco and Vanzetti?
they were executed for robbery and murder
they were anarchists
they were Italian born immigrants
they were Catholics
34
Why did Native Americans not have legal protection from the government until 1924?
they refused to fight in WW 1
they had all fled to Europe
they were not allowed off the reservations
they were not <br>citizens
35
Which of these is NOT true about Calvin Coolidge?
Nickname was "Silent Cal"
even more probusiness than Harding
known for helping farmers
honest and trustworthy
36
Who was the most famous Big Band Jazz director of the 1920s?
Josh Gibson
Duke Ellington
Marcus Garvey
Calvin Coolidge
37
Which one is a famous artist of the 20s known for painting flowers and desert landscapes?
Georgia O'Keefe
Barbara Hutson
Bessie Smith
Amelia Earhart
38
True or False: President Harding died suddenly in a car accident, so Hoover became president.
false
true
39
This is the correct order of the presidents during the 1920s: Hoover, Harding, Coolidge.
false
true
40
True or False: Most people obeyed the laws of Prohibition during the 1920s.
true
false
41
Which was NOT a cause of unemployment and economic recession after WW 1?
Government cancelled contracts for war supplies
Henry Ford's assembly line needed fewer workers
Factories stopped producing war materials
soldiers came home and needed jobs
42
What is NOT something that applies to "flappers?"
the older generation found them scandolous
they wore short skirts and danced the Charleston
they flapped their arms up and down and tried to fly
they bobbed their hair and wore make up
43
What was the nickname of the Model T?
Golden Nugget
Silver Bullet
Tin Can
Tin Lizzie
44
Which was NOT a form of entertainment in the 1920s?
radio
movies
dancing
television
