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SCHLESSINGER VIDEO VIEWING GUIDE: THE ROARING 1920S
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By the early 1920s, American wanted a return
to –
A. imperialism
B. isolationism
C. normalcy
D. western civilization
8. What was the central contributing factor that
led to the expansion of the suburbs, allowing
white collar workers to move away from the
city?
A. housing construction
B. improved transportation
C. subways
D. airplane travel
2. What was the other name given to the
“Roaring Twenties”?
A. the Jazz Age
B. the Lost Generation
C. the Harlem Renaissnace
D. the Era of Good Feelings
9. What segment of society changed the most
during the 1920s?
A. African-Americans
B. women
C. white men
D. Filipino-American women
3. What “spurred” America’s increased standard
of living during the 1920s?
A. the oil boom
B. the automobile
C. the airplane
D. computer technology
10. What amendment, passed in 1920, gave
women the right to vote?
A. 17th Amendment
B. 18th Amendment
C. 19th Amendment
D. 20th Amendment
4. Who pioneered a moving assembly line?
A. John D. Rockefeller
B. Cornelius Vanderbilt
C. Henry Ford
D. Ransom Olds
11. Who were the young women who wore looser
clothes, cut their hair short, and went to
speakeasies?
A. Betty Boop
B. “flappers”
C. feminists
D. bootleggers
5. What was the automobile that you could get in
“any color as long as it is black”?
A. Oldsmobile
B. Model-T Ford
C. Model-A Ford
D. Mercedes-Benz
12. What changed American homes the most
during the 1920s?
A. interior designers
B. indoor plumbing
C. electrification
D. granite countertops
6. What ‘unheard’ of wage did Henry Ford pay his
workers?
A. $1.25 per hour
B. $2.00 per day
C. $5.00 per day
D. $7.75 per hour
13. Who (or what) informed Americans about the
“tidal wave” of new products entering the
market place?
A. advertisements
B. propaganda posters
C. yellow journalism
D. newsreels
7. What new method of buying allowed more
Americans than ever to buy an automobile?
A. cash on the barrel
B. installment buying, or credit
C. online payments
D. direct deposit
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14. By the 1920s, what was the most powerful
influence on culture in the US?
A. African-Americans
B. radio
C. politicians
D. athletes
21. What event made Americans fearful of
foreigners?
A. The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
B. The Red Scare
C. The Palmer Raids
D. All of these, in some way.
15. Where was jazz music ‘born’?
A. Harlem
B. Washington, D.C.
C. New Orleans
D. Manchester, England
22. Who was the Tennessee teacher arrested for
breaking the law by teaching the theory of
evolution in a public school classroom?
A. John Scopes
B. Lauren Gay
C. Donna Abrams
D. Clarence Darrow
16. Where was the center of African-American
commerce and culture, as well as the largest
African-American suburb by the 1920s?
A. Detroit, Michigan
B. Harlem, New York
C. New Orleans, Louisiana
D. Atlanta, Georgia
23. What did they call the Scopes trial?
A. The Biblical Battle
B. The Scopes-Monkey Trial
C. The Evolution Revolution
D. The Eden vs. Heathen Trial
17. Who championed racial pride, economic
independence, and self-rule and also founded
the Universal Negro Improvement
Organization?
A. Asa Philip Randolph
B. Booker T. Washington
C. W.E.B. DuBois
D. Marcus Garvey
24. Who was the “Sultan of Swat”?
A. Albert Pujols
B. Mike Piazza
C. George Herman “Babe” Ruth
D. Harmon Killebrew
25. Who was the “greatest hero” of the decade
that flew the first flight, solo, across the
Atlantic Ocean?
A. Amelia Earhart
B. Charles Lindbergh
C. Eddie Rickenbacker
D. Howard Hughes
18. What were illegal bars and nightclubs called
during the era of Prohibition?
A. blind pigs
B. speakeasies
C. draught houses
D. potent pubs
26. What happened in October, 1929, that brought
America’s prosperity to a halt?
A. The Stock Market crashed.
B. Coxey’s Army marched.
C. The Bonus Army attacked.
D. World War II began.
19. Who was the “Empress of the Blues”?
A. Ella Fitzgerald
B. Billy Holiday
C. Bessie Smith
D. Judy Garland
20. What law, passed on January 1, 1920, made
the manufacture and sale of alcohol illegal?
A. The 19th Amendment
B. The Volstead Act
C. The 17th Amendment
D. The 18th Amendment
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