Ch. 15/16 Test
  • 1. Hitting home runs was how this New York Yankee became famous during the 1920s.
A) Calvin Coolidge
B) Al Capone
C) Babe Ruth
D) Ernest Hemingway
E) John Scopes
  • 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) Marcus Garvey
C) John Scopes
D) Babe Ruth
  • 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) Marcus Garvey
B) Warren Harding
C) Calvin Coolidge
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) Charles Lindbergh
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 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) Ernest Hemingway
B) Al Capone
C) Calvin Coolidge
D) Charles Lindbergh
  • 6. Which two Constitutional amendments are most directly related to the term “Prohibition”?
A) 18th &19th Amendments
B) 14th &18th Amendments
C) 13th & 18th Amendments
D) 18th & 21st Amendments
  • 7. Calvin Coolidge became president when
A) he defeated Robert La Follette in the 1920 election
B) Warren Harding was assassinated
C) Warren Harding died in office
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) Babe Ruth
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Warren Harding
D) Calvin Coolidge
  • 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) Warren Harding
B) Marcus Garvey
C) John Scopes
D) Charles Linbergh
  • 12. Which of the following terms is paired with a word or phrase that correctly identifies the term?
A) Henry Cabot Lodge- Bohemian lifetyle
B) Langston Hughes- Harlem Renaissance
C) Nativism- Hollywood
D) Henry Ford- flappers and Jazz music
  • 13. All of the following are associated with the founding of Jazz music except
A) Andrew Mellon
B) Joe "King" Oliver
C) Louis Armstrong
D) Duke Ellington
  • 14. Which trial showed the nativism against immigrants and the fear of political beliefs like anarchy?
A) Scopes Trial
B) Trial involving the murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby
C) Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
  • 15. Which of the following terms is most associated with the attempt to avoid the law during Prohibition?
A) 19th Amendment
B) bootleggers
C) flappers
D) 18th Amendment
  • 16. The Model T revolutionized transportation in America during this time period because
A) it was inexpensive enough for ordinary Americans to buy.
B) it was the best automobile produced in America
C) it made railroads obsolete
D) it was the best car ever produced
  • 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) Automobiles were much to expensive for ordinary people to purchase during the 1920s.
C) Few Americans used credit to purchase automobiles during the 1920’s.
  • 18. According to the review which of the following statements about the 1920s is true?
A) Many Americans believed in ‘eugenics’ - the belief that abortion was immoral.
B) The ‘Ohio Gang’ was a group of President Harding’s friends who used their positions for personal gain.
C) During the 1920’s black Americans migrated from Northern cities to the South to find jobs on the farms in the “Great Migration.
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) there was never a law which prohibited the selling of alcohol.
B) many people chose to break the law and drink anyway.
C) of a few gangsters who sold liquor to criminals.
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) Normalcy
B) Bohemian
C) Fundamentalist
D) the Harlem Renaissance
  • 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) isolationism
C) moratorium
D) cooperative individualism
  • 22. Which industry in America helped to spur America’s economic prosperity in the 1920s?
A) music and entertainment
B) railroads
C) airplane manufacturing
D) automobiles
  • 23. President Coolidge (and other Republicans of the 1920s) believed that the American government should
A) take a strong lead in international affairs- becoming the world leader
B) not interfere with business
C) strictly control (regulate) the activities of business
D) push for social reform to help the poor
  • 24. The 1920s
A) was a decade of economic misery and economic depression for the United States.
B) was a decade of rapid change and clashing values.
C) revealed the reluctance of black Americans to attempt high achievement in the arts.
D) saw the elimination of racial discrimination in the Southern U.S.
  • 25. American farmers during the 1920’s
A) found that hard work always paid off with higher income.
B) enjoyed economic prosperity like other Americans.
C) were facing the problem of low income.
D) were unable to keep up with the increased demand for farm products like grains.
  • 26. Many people viewed Sacco and Vanzetti with suspicion because they were
A) Italian immigrants and socialists
B) Italian immigrants and anarchists
C) German immigrants and socialists
D) German immigrants and anarchists
  • 27. After the Emergency Quota Act was passed, admission to the United States was based on immigrants’
A) wealth
B) job skills
C) ethnic identity and national origin
D) literacy test scores
  • 28. The new morality of the 1920s glorified
A) personal freedom
B) wealth
C) promiscuity
D) work
  • 29. The Cotton Club was
A) a Hollywood nightwood nightspot frequent by the stars of the silver screen
B) a Chicago speakeasy where gangsters congregated
C) a Harlem nightspot where many African American entertainers got their start
D) a fictitious Chicago nightclub featured in the famous picture "The Jazz Singer"
  • 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) assembly line
B) mass production
C) Flivver
D) apprentice system
  • 31. To create consumers for their new products, manufacturers turned to
A) mass production
B) advertising
C) television
  • 32. Henry Ford almost single-handily changed the auto from a toy of the wealthy to an affordable necessity for the
A) farmers
B) middle class
C) delivery industry
D) city dwellers
  • 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) Teapot Dome Scandal
B) Forbes Scandal
C) Fall Scandal
D) Daugherty Scandal
  • 34. Banned consumption of alcohol
A) flappers
B) evolution
C) bootlegging
D) prohibition
  • 35. Bobbed their hair and drank alcohol
A) bootlegging
B) flappers
C) eugenics
D) prohibition
  • 36. God created the world as described in the Bible
A) Creationism
B) Evolution
C) Eugenics
D) The Great Migration
  • 37. Created powerful African American voting blocs in Northern Cities
A) Evolution
B) Flappers
C) Bootlegging
D) The Great Migration
  • 38. belief that humans developed from lower forms of life
A) flappers
B) eugenics
C) evolution
D) creationism
  • 39. a false science intended to prove white people were better
A) creationism
B) eugenics
C) evolution
D) prohibition
  • 40. illegal production and distribution of liquor
A) prohibition
B) flappers
C) bootlegging
D) evolution
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