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Test: The Roaring Twenties (40 points)
1. What did groups like the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union eventually get enacted with the
18th Amendment?
a. Suffrage
b. Income Tax
c. Prohibition
d. Equal Pay
e. none of the above
2. Which statement most accurately describes the changing population patterns in the United States
during the 1920s?
a. During the Great Migration, African Americans moved from North to South.
b. Increasingly, people moved from cities to more rural areas.
c. As a result of immigration and migration, city populations increased.
d. For the first time, more people were leaving the United States than arriving.
e. none of the above
3. What were the secret clubs where people would go to illegally acquire alcohol?
a. speakeasies b. tenements
c. bootleggers
d. flappers
e. none of the above
4. What version of Christianity, grounded in a literal interpretation of the Bible, was preached by
Aimee McPherson and Billy Sunday?
a. evolution
b. Protestantism
c. fundamentalism
d. Catholicism
e. none of the above
5. Which Chicago crime boss got his start as a bootlegger?
a. Lucky Luciano
b. Bugsy Siegel
c. Al Capone
d. John Dillinger
e. none of the above
6. What established the Prohibition Bureau, but failed to provide it with enough funds to enforce
the law?
a. the 18th Amendment b. the Volstead Act
c.
7. How did literacy increase in the 1920s?
8. Which form of mass media that increased during the 1920s?
a. newspapers b. magazines
c. radio
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
9. What became more widely available as wages increased and working hours decreased in the
1920s?
a. leisure time
b. government healthcare
c. government jobs
d. crime free neighborhoods
e. none of the above
10. Who grabbed headlines by being the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean?
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. Earnest Hemmingway
c. Charles Lindbergh
d. T.S. Eliot
e. none of the above
11. In which 1928 Walt Disney film did Mickey Mouse make his first appearance?
a. The Great Gatsby
b. The Birth of a Nation
c. Steamboat Willy
d. Modern Times
e. none of the above
12. Which great American author coined the term “Jazz Age” for the 1920s and wrote classics like
The Great Gatsby?
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. Earnest Hemmingway
c. Charles Lindbergh
d. T.S. Eliot
e. none of the above
13. What was the literary and artistic movement that celebrated African American culture?
a. The Golden Age
b. the Roaring Twenties
c. the Jazz Age
d. the Harlem Renaissance
e. none of the above
14. Who formed the UNIA and promoted the “back to Africa movement”?
a. Claude McKay
b. Marcus Garvey
c. Paul Robeson
d. Langston Hughes
e. none of the above
15. Who was one of the Jazz legends of the 1920s?
a. “Duke” Ellington
b. Paul Robeson
d. Charles Lindbergh e. none of the above
c. T.S. Eliot
16. Who was a Jamaican immigrant who became one of the great poets of the Harlem Renaissance
by urging people to resist prejudice and discrimination?
a. Claude McKay
b. Marcus Garvey
c. Paul Robeson
d. Langston Hughes
e. none of the above
17. Who was the Missouri-born poet who wrote of the difficult lives of working class African
Americans and is often referred to as the greatest poet of the Harlem Renaissance?
a. Claude McKay
b. Marcus Garvey
c. Paul Robeson
d. Langston Hughes
e. none of the above
18. Who was a true Renaissance man who acted in Othello, sang, and engaged in political activism?
a. “Duke” Ellington
b. Paul Robeson
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Charles Lindbergh e. none of the above
19. Who were the young ladies of the 1920s who pushed the boundaries of fashion and social
interaction?
a. speakeasies b. bootleggers c. flappers
d. rum runners
20. Who took major risks in trying to spread information about birth control to women and
founded the American Birth Control league in 1921?
21. What was more widely available to women of the 1920s?
a. birth control b. the right to vote
c. new jobs
d. labor saving devices
e. all of the above
22. Approximately how many women were earning wages by 1930?
a. 5 million
b. 10 million
c. 15 million
d. 20 million
23. What is the unfair set of principles that grants greater sexual freedom to men than to women?
a. the golden rule
b. the gold standard
c. the double standard
d. the single standard
e. none of the above
24. What was the name given to the period of hysteria from 1919-1920 in which anarchists and
communists were blamed for bombing and labor uprisings?
a. the Red Scare
b. the Great Terror
c. the Jazz Age
d. the Witch Hunt
e. none of the above
25. Who was the Attorney General of the United States who sent government agents on a series of
illegal raids to hunt down political radicals?
a. John L. Lewis
b. Calvin Coolidge
c. A. Mitchell Palmer
d. Langston Hughes
e. none of the above
26. What crime were Sacco and Vanzetti put on trial for?
a. treason
b. anarchy
c. receiving bribes
d. robbery and murder
e. none of the above
27. What two Republican Presidents of the early 1920s signaled the end of the Progressive Era with
their belief in less government, less taxation, and less regulation?
a. Harding and Wilson b. Coolidge and Wilson c. Harding and Coolidge
d. Taft and Coolidge
e. none of the above
28. Who was the KKK leader brought the Klan to its highest membership and made it a political
force in the 1920s?
a. Charles Evans Hughes
b. Hiram Evans c. Webster Thayer
d. Charles Lindbergh
e. none of the above
29. Which corporation bought out Thomas Edison’s power stations, eventually provided electricity
to 63% of the American population by the end of the 1920s?
a. Ford
b. PG & E
c. Dupont
d. General Electric
e. none of the above
30. Which Supreme Court justice argued against the Palmer Raids, saying it was unconstitutional to
arrest someone for their political beliefs?
a. William Jennings Bryan
b. Clarence Darrow
c. Webster Thayer
d. Charles Evans Hughes
e. none of the above
31. Which writer of “Lost Generation,” wrote The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, which
“criticized the glorification of war”?
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. Earnest Hemmingway
c. Charles Lindbergh
d. T.S. Eliot
e. none of the above
32. Which judge called Sacco and Vanzetti “anarchist bastards” indicating that the trial would be
less than impartial?
a. Charles Evans Hughes
b. Hiram Evans c. Webster Thayer
d. Charles Lindbergh
e. none of the above
33. Whose artwork, like Radiator Building-Night, “captured the grandeur of New York?
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. Earnest Hemmingway
c. Charles Lindbergh
d. T.S. Eliot
e. none of the above
34. Who was hired by the ACLU to defend John Scopes?
a. William Jennings Bryan
b. Clarence Darrow
c. Webster Thayer
d. Charles Evans Hughes
e. John L. Lewis
35. The immigration policies of the 1920s limited immigration from all of the following countries
except…
a. Italy
b. Japan
c. Russia
d. England
36. Which popular 1915 film, directed by D.W. Griffith, likely led to the increased popularity of the
Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s?
a. The Jazz Singer
b. Steamboat Willie
c. Birth of a Nation
d. The Kelly Gang
37. Which group was a target of the Ku Klux Klan?
a. Catholics
b. Jews c. African Americans
d. immigrants
e. none of the above
38. Who led the United Mine Workers in their efforts to gain better wages and safer working
conditions?
a. John L. Lewis
b. Calvin Coolidge
c. A. Mitchell Palmer
d. Charles Evans Hughes
e. none of the above
39. Which amendment eventually brought an end to prohibition?
a. the 18th Amendment b. the 19th Amendment
c. the 20th Amendment
d. the 21st Amendment
e. none of the above
22. Which of the following was a result of the prohibition of alcohol?
a. Americans overwhelmingly supported prohibition by the mid-1920s?
b. Organized crime increased.
c. The production of alcohol was entirely stopped in the United States.
d. Drinking alcohol became very unpopular in the United States.