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Ch. 15/16 Test
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  • 1. Hitting home runs was how this New York Yankee became famous during the 1920s.
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) John Scopes
C) Calvin Coolidge
D) Al Capone
E) Babe Ruth
  • 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) Babe Ruth
B) Warren Harding
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) Marcus Garvey
B) Warren Harding
C) Al Capone
D) Calvin Coolidge
  • 4. This aviator was the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop in his airplane, Spirit of St. Louis.
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) John Scopes
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) Charles Lindbergh
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Al Capone
  • 6. Which two Constitutional amendments are most directly related to the term “Prohibition”?
A) 18th & 21st Amendments
B) 18th &19th Amendments
C) 13th & 18th Amendments
D) 14th &18th Amendments
  • 7. Calvin Coolidge became president when
A) Warren Harding was assassinated
B) he defeated Robert La Follette in the 1920 election
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) radios and computers
B) movies and radio
C) television and computers
D) movies and television
  • 9. This American writer of the 1920’s wrote A Farewell to Arms.
A) Al Capone
B) Marcus Garvey
C) Charles Lindbergh
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 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) Warren Harding
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Babe Ruth
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) Marcus Garvey
B) Warren Harding
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) Langston Hughes- Harlem Renaissance
B) Henry Cabot Lodge- Bohemian lifetyle
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) Duke Ellington
D) Louis Armstrong
  • 14. Which trial showed the nativism against immigrants and the fear of political beliefs like anarchy?
A) Scopes Trial
B) Sacco and Vanzetti 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) bootleggers
B) 19th Amendment
C) 18th Amendment
D) flappers
  • 16. The Model T revolutionized transportation in America during this time period because
A) it was the best automobile produced in America
B) it was inexpensive enough for ordinary Americans to buy.
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) Automobiles were much to expensive for ordinary people to purchase during the 1920s.
B) Few Americans used credit to purchase automobiles during the 1920’s.
C) The assembly line made the production of automobiles to be more efficient causing cars to be cheaper for people to buy.
  • 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) The ‘Ohio Gang’ was a group of President Harding’s friends who used their positions for personal gain.
C) Many Americans believed in ‘eugenics’ - the belief that abortion was immoral.
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) law enforcement agencies never tried to enforce Prohibition.
C) many people chose to break the law and drink anyway.
D) of a few gangsters who sold liquor to criminals.
  • 20. The outpouring of African American literary talent (with poets like Langston Hughes) in the 1920s was known as
A) Normalcy
B) the Harlem Renaissance
C) Bohemian
D) Fundamentalist
  • 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) isolationism
B) cooperative individualism
C) normalcy
D) moratorium
  • 22. Which industry in America helped to spur America’s economic prosperity in the 1920s?
A) airplane manufacturing
B) music and entertainment
C) railroads
D) automobiles
  • 23. President Coolidge (and other Republicans of the 1920s) believed that the American government should
A) push for social reform to help the poor
B) take a strong lead in international affairs- becoming the world leader
C) not interfere with business
D) strictly control (regulate) the activities of business
  • 24. The 1920s
A) was a decade of economic misery and economic depression for the United States.
B) revealed the reluctance of black Americans to attempt high achievement in the arts.
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) found that hard work always paid off with higher income.
C) were facing the problem of low income.
D) enjoyed economic prosperity like other Americans.
  • 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) literacy test scores
B) ethnic identity and national origin
C) job skills
D) wealth
  • 28. The new morality of the 1920s glorified
A) work
B) wealth
C) promiscuity
D) personal freedom
  • 29. The Cotton Club was
A) a fictitious Chicago nightclub featured in the famous picture "The Jazz Singer"
B) a Chicago speakeasy where gangsters congregated
C) a Harlem nightspot where many African American entertainers got their start
D) a Hollywood nightwood nightspot frequent by the stars of the silver screen
  • 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) apprentice system
C) mass production
D) Flivver
  • 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) middle class
B) farmers
C) city dwellers
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) Fall Scandal
B) Forbes Scandal
C) Daugherty Scandal
D) Teapot Dome Scandal
  • 34. Banned consumption of alcohol
A) prohibition
B) flappers
C) evolution
D) bootlegging
  • 35. Bobbed their hair and drank alcohol
A) prohibition
B) flappers
C) bootlegging
D) eugenics
  • 36. God created the world as described in the Bible
A) The Great Migration
B) Creationism
C) Evolution
D) Eugenics
  • 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) evolution
B) creationism
C) eugenics
D) flappers
  • 39. a false science intended to prove white people were better
A) prohibition
B) eugenics
C) evolution
D) creationism
  • 40. illegal production and distribution of liquor
A) flappers
B) prohibition
C) evolution
D) bootlegging
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