CPUSH 1920s Quiz

Question 1

What did all of the new consumer goods provide for American households?

Accepted Answer

more leisure time, improved household tasks for housewives

Question 2

For the first time in history, wealthier people were able to live further away from work in places known as _____.

Accepted Answer

suburbs

Question 3

Why did Prohibition ultimately fail?

Accepted Answer

More funding was needed for enforcement

Question 4

Who was NOT affected by the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?

Accepted Answer

Mexican immigrants, Canadian immigrants

Question 5

After WW1, what happened to USA's economy?

Accepted Answer

a short recession, followed by a boom in business

Question 6

Which Amendment made alcohol illegal?

Accepted Answer

18

Question 7

Why was John T. Scopes fired from his Tennessee teaching position?

Accepted Answer

teaching the theory of evolution

Question 8

By the mid-1920s, more Americans lived in _____ than anywhere else.

Accepted Answer

cities

Question 9

Who was responsible for the Teapot Dome incident?

Accepted Answer

Albert Fall

Question 10

The __________ Act is the official law for enforcing prohibition.

Accepted Answer

Volstead

Question 11

Why was Harlem culturally significant during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance, provided hopeful opportunities for African-Americans, rebirth of black literature, music, poetry

Question 12

Who mass-produced the first automobile in the USA?

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 13

How did Henry Ford mass-produce Model-T's while also making them cheaper?

Accepted Answer

good benefits for workers, assembly lines, doubling workers' pay, specialized jobs

Question 14

Under the Harding administration AND the Coolidge administration...

Accepted Answer

the economy flourished

Question 15

Which scandal rocked President Harding's reputation?

Accepted Answer

Teapot Dome

Question 16

The massive population shift where thousands of African-Americans moved to Northern cities is known as:

Accepted Answer

Great Migration

Question 17

Why did many poor people move into city centers during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Because that's where factory jobs were located, because that's where cheap housing was located

Question 18

Which of the following groups/organizations grew in membership during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

NAACP, UNIA, KKK

Question 19

Which of the following organizations wanted African-Americans to leave USA and form a new society in Africa?

Accepted Answer

UNIA

Question 20

Guess what?

Accepted Answer

what?, chicken butt

Question 21

Which of the following groups did not enjoy economic prosperity during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

farmers, railroads

Question 22

Which of the following was a new form of art that grew during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

jazz, radio, modern (abstract) art, cinema

Question 23

Who had more free time?

Accepted Answer

city slickers

Question 24

The Scopes Trial was a clash between...

Accepted Answer

modernism vs traditionalism

Question 25

What did President Harding and President Coolidge have in common?

Accepted Answer

they helped big businesses grow

Question 26

Which of the following describes Flappers?

Accepted Answer

shorter dresses & bobbed haircuts, drank and smoke in public, rejected Victorian standards of morality

Question 27

Who was the first President during the 1920s? (He promised a "return to normalcy."

Accepted Answer

Warren G. Harding

Question 28

During the 1920s, how was the USA divided in a new way?

Accepted Answer

Urban vs Rural

Question 29

Which of the following was an effect of Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

Mafias & gangs gained influence in the cities, Other illegal activities grew (prostitution, gambling, etc.), trust in law enforcement decreased, Organized crime increased

CPUSH 1920s Quiz

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CPUSH 1920s Quiz

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