Ch. 15/16 Test
  • 1. Hitting home runs was how this New York Yankee became famous during the 1920s.
A) John Scopes
B) Al Capone
C) Babe Ruth
D) Ernest Hemingway
E) Calvin Coolidge
  • 2. This black leader believed that black Americans would always face discrimination in the United States, so he advocated the creation of a homeland in Africa for black Americans.
A) Warren Harding
B) Babe Ruth
C) John Scopes
D) Marcus Garvey
  • 3. This President of the 1920s promised a “return to normalcy”. Unfortunately, his administration was troubled by scandals like the Teapot Dome scandal. He died in 1923 while still president.
A) Calvin Coolidge
B) Marcus Garvey
C) Warren Harding
D) Al Capone
  • 4. This aviator was the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop in his airplane, Spirit of St. Louis.
A) Calvin Coolidge
B) John Scopes
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Charles Lindbergh
  • 5. Few criminals have become as rich as this seller of illegal booze during Prohibition in the 1920’s. This man’s criminal organization controlled the trade in illicit alcohol in the whole Chicago area .
A) Calvin Coolidge
B) Al Capone
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Charles Lindbergh
  • 6. Which two Constitutional amendments are most directly related to the term “Prohibition”?
A) 13th & 18th Amendments
B) 18th & 21st Amendments
C) 14th &18th Amendments
D) 18th &19th Amendments
  • 7. Calvin Coolidge became president when
A) Warren Harding died in office
B) Warren Harding was assassinated
C) he defeated Robert La Follette in the 1920 election
D) he won the election of 2004
  • 8. Which two of the following were important sources of entertainment for American families during the 1920’s?
A) movies and television
B) movies and radio
C) radios and computers
D) television and computers
  • 9. This American writer of the 1920’s wrote A Farewell to Arms.
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Al Capone
C) Marcus Garvey
D) Charles Lindbergh
  • 10. This president’s honesty and pro-business policy allowed him to be easily elected in 1924. He had been vice president until the president died.
A) Calvin Coolidge
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Warren Harding
D) Babe Ruth
  • 11. Arrested for teaching evolution in his Tennessee biology class, this teacher was later put on trial in a showdown between fundamentalists and modernists.
A) Marcus Garvey
B) Charles Linbergh
C) John Scopes
D) Warren Harding
  • 12. Which of the following terms is paired with a word or phrase that correctly identifies the term?
A) Henry Ford- flappers and Jazz music
B) Langston Hughes- Harlem Renaissance
C) Henry Cabot Lodge- Bohemian lifetyle
D) Nativism- Hollywood
  • 13. All of the following are associated with the founding of Jazz music except
A) Louis Armstrong
B) Andrew Mellon
C) Joe "King" Oliver
D) Duke Ellington
  • 14. Which trial showed the nativism against immigrants and the fear of political beliefs like anarchy?
A) Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
B) Scopes Trial
C) Trial involving the murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby
  • 15. Which of the following terms is most associated with the attempt to avoid the law during Prohibition?
A) flappers
B) 18th Amendment
C) 19th Amendment
D) bootleggers
  • 16. The Model T revolutionized transportation in America during this time period because
A) it was the best car ever produced
B) it was inexpensive enough for ordinary Americans to buy.
C) it was the best automobile produced in America
D) it made railroads obsolete
  • 17. Which of the following statements about the spread of automobiles during the 1920s is true?
A) The assembly line made the production of automobiles to be more efficient causing cars to be cheaper for people to buy.
B) Few Americans used credit to purchase automobiles during the 1920’s.
C) Automobiles were much to expensive for ordinary people to purchase during the 1920s.
  • 18. According to the review which of the following statements about the 1920s is true?
A) During the 1920’s black Americans migrated from Northern cities to the South to find jobs on the farms in the “Great Migration.
B) Many Americans believed in ‘eugenics’ - the belief that abortion was immoral.
C) The ‘Ohio Gang’ was a group of President Harding’s friends who used their positions for personal gain.
D) Al Capone attempted to enforce Prohibition and prevent people from drinking alcoholic beverages.
  • 19. The main reason that Prohibition eventually failed was because
A) many people chose to break the law and drink anyway.
B) of a few gangsters who sold liquor to criminals.
C) there was never a law which prohibited the selling of alcohol.
D) law enforcement agencies never tried to enforce Prohibition.
  • 20. The outpouring of African American literary talent (with poets like Langston Hughes) in the 1920s was known as
A) the Harlem Renaissance
B) Normalcy
C) Fundamentalist
D) Bohemian
  • 21. Which of the following vocabulary terms refers to the preference of most Americans to stay out of the politics of Europe during the 1920s?
A) normalcy
B) cooperative individualism
C) moratorium
D) isolationism
  • 22. Which industry in America helped to spur America’s economic prosperity in the 1920s?
A) automobiles
B) music and entertainment
C) airplane manufacturing
D) railroads
  • 23. President Coolidge (and other Republicans of the 1920s) believed that the American government should
A) not interfere with business
B) take a strong lead in international affairs- becoming the world leader
C) push for social reform to help the poor
D) strictly control (regulate) the activities of business
  • 24. The 1920s
A) revealed the reluctance of black Americans to attempt high achievement in the arts.
B) was a decade of economic misery and economic depression for the United States.
C) saw the elimination of racial discrimination in the Southern U.S.
D) was a decade of rapid change and clashing values.
  • 25. American farmers during the 1920’s
A) were unable to keep up with the increased demand for farm products like grains.
B) were facing the problem of low income.
C) enjoyed economic prosperity like other Americans.
D) found that hard work always paid off with higher income.
  • 26. Many people viewed Sacco and Vanzetti with suspicion because they were
A) German immigrants and socialists
B) Italian immigrants and socialists
C) German immigrants and anarchists
D) Italian immigrants and anarchists
  • 27. After the Emergency Quota Act was passed, admission to the United States was based on immigrants’
A) wealth
B) ethnic identity and national origin
C) literacy test scores
D) job skills
  • 28. The new morality of the 1920s glorified
A) wealth
B) personal freedom
C) work
D) promiscuity
  • 29. The Cotton Club was
A) a Hollywood nightwood nightspot frequent by the stars of the silver screen
B) a Harlem nightspot where many African American entertainers got their start
C) a fictitious Chicago nightclub featured in the famous picture "The Jazz Singer"
D) a Chicago speakeasy where gangsters congregated
  • 30. What system of manufacturing adopted by Henry Ford divided operations into simple tasks that unskilled workers could do and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum?
A) mass production
B) apprentice system
C) assembly line
D) Flivver
  • 31. To create consumers for their new products, manufacturers turned to
A) advertising
B) television
C) mass production
  • 32. Henry Ford almost single-handily changed the auto from a toy of the wealthy to an affordable necessity for the
A) middle class
B) city dwellers
C) farmers
D) delivery industry
  • 33. President Harding’s secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves, causing a scandal that came to be known as the
A) Daugherty Scandal
B) Fall Scandal
C) Forbes Scandal
D) Teapot Dome Scandal
  • 34. Banned consumption of alcohol
A) prohibition
B) evolution
C) flappers
D) bootlegging
  • 35. Bobbed their hair and drank alcohol
A) bootlegging
B) eugenics
C) prohibition
D) flappers
  • 36. God created the world as described in the Bible
A) Eugenics
B) Creationism
C) The Great Migration
D) Evolution
  • 37. Created powerful African American voting blocs in Northern Cities
A) Flappers
B) Evolution
C) Bootlegging
D) The Great Migration
  • 38. belief that humans developed from lower forms of life
A) creationism
B) flappers
C) evolution
D) eugenics
  • 39. a false science intended to prove white people were better
A) creationism
B) evolution
C) prohibition
D) eugenics
  • 40. illegal production and distribution of liquor
A) prohibition
B) flappers
C) evolution
D) bootlegging
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