Name & period number __________________________________
U.S. History
Dr. Astuto
Ch 8 Jazz Age worksheet
Indicate whether the statement is true (T) or false (F). If false edit the statement to make it a true statement.
1. Calvin Coolidge, who became president after the death of Warren G. Harding, easily won the election of 1924.
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2. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was the peace treaty that ended World War I.
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3. By the early 1890s, the automobile had become an accepted part of American life.
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4. Many saw the Sacco and Vanzetti case as an example of prejudice against people based on ethnic origin and beliefs.
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5. By the 1920s, the United States was the dominant economic power in the world.
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6. Calvin Coolidge took office during the height of progressivism.
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7. Bessie Smith was the first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance.
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8. The Versailles Treaty that ended World War I attempted to outlaw war.
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Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.
9. The ____________________ trial tested a state law that banned the teaching of evolution.
10. During Prohibition, people flocked to secret bars called ____________________, where they could purchase alcohol.
11. The movement of African Americans from the rural South to industrial cities in the North was called the
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12. Technological advances enabled farmers to produce more in the 1920s, but higher yields without a
corresponding increase in _________________________________________ meant that farmers received lower prices.
13. Supporters of ___________________________ wanted the United States to stay out of entanglements with Europe.
14. By the mid-1920s, other corporations, notably General Motors and Chrysler, competed successfully
with _________________________________, the first carmaker to produce cars by using the assembly line.
15. Every year from 1924 to 1928, Sen. McNary & Rep. Haugen proposed a bill which called for the federal government
to purchase surplus __________________________________ and sell them abroad while imposing a high tariff.
16. Ford's assembly-line product was the ____________________, affectionately called the "Tin Lizzie" or "Flivver."
17. The world's first regular airmail service started in 1918 between Washington, D.C., and ______________________.
18. The ACLU advertised for a teacher who would be willing to be arrested for teaching ____________________.
19. The Eighteenth Amendment gave both federal and state governments power to enforce Prohibition, marking a
dramatic increase in federal _____________________________ powers.
20. Louis Armstrong introduced an improvisational, early form of ____________________, a style of music
influenced by Dixieland and ragtime.
21. The Dawes Plan tried to promote peace by __________________________________________________________
22. During the 1920s, a group called ___________________________________________________ advocated
separation and independence from whites.
23. Contrast Marcus Garvey’s Negro Nationalism to the views of W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington. __________
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24. Ku Klux Klan membership declined in the late 1920s because _____________________________________________
Answer Key
1. True
2. False - The VERSAILLES TREATY was the peace treaty that ended World War I.
4. False - By the early 1920s, the automobile had become an accepted part of American life.
5. True
10. True
11. False - Calvin Coolidge took office during the DECLINE of progressivism.
12. False - CLAUDE McKAY was the first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance.
14. False - The KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT attempted to outlaw war.
16. Scopes
17. speakeasies
18. Great Migration
20. demand
21. isolationism
22. Ford
23. crops
24. Model T
25. New York
26. evolution
27. police
28. flapper
30. jazz
56. allowed U.S. banks to loan money to Germany so it could pay reparations
57. Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
58. Garvey advocated separation and independence from whites rather than integration
59. new restrictions on immigration reduced the fears of nativists