The Roaring 20s (Study Quiz)

Question 1 of 54

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Old America:
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1. Small Town

1. Urban

2. Protestant

2. Free Thinking

2. Catholic

2. Muslim

3. Liberals

3. Conservatives

3. Communists

4. Old Fashion Tastes/ Morals

4. New Age Artists/ Values

4. Original Thinking/ Rules

4. Against Tradition

5. Against Looser Sex Standards

5. For Sexual Revoution

5. Anti-Romantic Lifestyles

5. Asexual Lifestyles

6. For Prohibition

6. Promoted Speak-Easies

6. Only Allowed Social/ Holiday Drinking

6. Against Prohibition

Explanation

Question 2 of 54

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New America:
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1. Urban

1. Small Town

1. Rural

1. Suburban

2. Urbane/ Trendy

2. Old Fashioned

2. Retro

2. Vintage

3. Free Thinking

3. Communistic

4. Liberals

4. Conservatives

4. Communists

5. Fun-Loving

5. Values Rules

5. Religous

6. Hedonism

6. Asceticism

7. Avant Garde

7. Basic

8. Freer Sex Standards

8. Believed in Asexualism

8. Against loose sex standards

9. Against Prohibition

9. For Prohibition

9. Against Speak-Easies

Explanation

Question 3 of 54

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The New Era experienced a flourish in..

Select one of the following:

Consumerism
Expansionism
Communism
Asceticism

Explanation

Question 4 of 54

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In the 1920s, all of this was happening EXCEPT:

Select one of the following:

US Government was fostering business growth.
Entertainment was becoming a big business industry.
The promotion of drinking and speak-easies was becoming poplar.
There was middle class expansion and new household technology.

Explanation

Question 5 of 54

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After the drop in war production, there was a an economic high.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 6 of 54

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What was the Bailey vs Drexel Furniture Case?

Select one of the following:

Defined Child Labor Restrictions.
Supported Working Women
Restricted Strikes from factory workers
Defined Minimum wage laws

Explanation

Question 7 of 54

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Did the Colorado Coal Company vs United Mine Workers case do?

Select one of the following:

Restricted strikes by factory workers.
Supported working women.
Defined Child Labor laws.
Defined minimum wage.

Explanation

Question 8 of 54

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Coolidge supported Farmers.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 9 of 54

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How did Coolidge first become president?

Select one of the following:

President Harding dies.
Won Election by landslide.
Barely won election.

Explanation

Question 10 of 54

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Warren G. Harding was:

Select one or more of the following:

African American
Democractic
said to have "Looked as a president ought to look"
Republican
From Ohio
"An abomination to the United States Government"

Explanation

Question 11 of 54

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Warren G. Harding beat Democrats James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt in the election of 1920

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 12 of 54

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Harding pushed a "Return to Normalcy". He supported Fed. Gov. taking a role in the economy and social reforms.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 13 of 54

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Andrew Mellon and Herbert Hoover were a part of Harding's cabinet.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 14 of 54

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Calvin Coolidge was known as "Silent Cal". He kept taxes down and business up.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 15 of 54

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Andrew Mellon was the most influential man in Coolidge's cabinet.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 16 of 54

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The amount of millionaires rose in the 1920s.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 17 of 54

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The ❌ Conference was a five power treaty that included the United States, ❌. It called on countries to reduce fleets to a ❌ ratio.

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Washington Disarmament

London Air Force Agreement

Tokyo Naval Disassembly

Paris Military

Rome Peace

Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy

Germany, Russia, Japan, and France

Great Britain, France, Germany and Japan

Italy, Russia, Germany, and Japan

5:5:3:1:1

6:5:3:1:1

5:5:2:1:1

5:1:1:1:1

Explanation

Question 18 of 54

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US imports were at their lowest in 1922.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 19 of 54

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The Fordey-McCumber Tariff Act openly...

Select one of the following:

Supported foreign goods
Kept foreign goods out of American markets.
Raised taxes on Cuban cigars and Liquor.
Put taxes on specifically German Exports.

Explanation

Question 20 of 54

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The Dawes/ Young Act...

Select one of the following:

Provided Loans to Germany.
Provided loans to all Allied Powers.
Limited diplomatic interaction with Germany.
Limited diplomatic interaction with all foreign countries for 2 years.

Explanation

Question 21 of 54

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When the great depression hit...

Select one of the following:

The United States withheld its loans to Germany.
The US started interacting with foreign powers again.
The US stopped loaning money to all of it's Allies.
The US continued to sever themselves from Germany.

Explanation

Question 22 of 54

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What was the fault in the Dawes Plan and Young Plan?

Select one of the following:

Countries were recycling money, and as a result, countries were not gaining anything out of the arrangement.
The Germans were not paying their loans, so all the money was going to Germany while other countries were left with nothing.
The US and Allies could not agree on how debts were paid resulting in an economical deadlock.
Their was no problem. Countries simply did not follow the plan.

Explanation

Question 23 of 54

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The Kellogg-Briand pact was an agreement signed only by all major world powers and was an agreement that outlawed all war.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 24 of 54

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Indians suffered from poverty, but eventually gained US citizenship in 1924.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 25 of 54

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Check all reforms that occurred in 1920s:

Select one or more of the following:

Indians gained citizenship
Women gained equal pay
Workers compensation
Gays/ Lesbians gained minuscule rights
Old Age Pensions

Explanation

Question 26 of 54

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Purchasing power increases in the 1920s. Earnings decrease and cost of living becomes unstable.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 27 of 54

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Henry Ford...

Select one of the following:

A.Introduces ideas and methods that changed production, wages, work conditions, and daily.
B.Was a Social Rights Activist, paying African Americans just as much as Whites.
C.Created the Assembly Line.
D.All of the above.
E.Both A and C
F.Both A and B
G.None.

Explanation

Question 28 of 54

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Ford's Model T...

Select one of the following:

Became an affordable, standard car the was available to anyone of any class.
Was an all black automobile only available to people of the upper class.

Explanation

Question 29 of 54

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The Automobile changed america by building highways, making easy transportation,and creating a boom in all other related industries (Wood, oil, insurance, etc.)

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 30 of 54

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Suburbs were created when Automobiles gave people access to jobs further away from them.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 31 of 54

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Check all examples of Consumer Culture.

Select one or more of the following:

Save money for your families necessities.
Buy this electric spoon and impress your friends.
A business man suggests a steady investment in an upcoming company.
A door to door salesman offers an investment in a vacuum cleaner
Advertisers celebrate consumption of goods.
Bankers encourage opening bank account.
Magazine ads and radio ads emphasize american fears and desires to encourage consumerism.

Explanation

Question 32 of 54

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Installment plans were using money from someone else (A credit card company) to buy something and reimbursing them in small, annual payments.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 33 of 54

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What was a Bull Market?

Select one of the following:

A period of raising stock prices.
A strong, stable market.
An illegal market where they sold "Bulls", or barrels of alcoholic drinks disguised as cattle feed.
A crashing Market.

Explanation

Question 34 of 54

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Buying on Margin, or credit, was a form of a risky investment practice. Buyers would often take a gamble and buy stocks on margin.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 35 of 54

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Mark all that was true about the 20s.

Select one or more of the following:

America's wealth was poorly distributed.
Farm income declined during the decade.
Farmers suffered from growth and debt and falling farm prices.
Factories suffered a greater deal than farmers.
Farming was vastly popular in the 1920s.
Income for farmers was at its peak.
Many people were moving from cities to farmland since the land was becoming less occupied due to people finding refuge in the suburbs.
People of the ghettos began searching for better lives as farmhands.

Explanation

Question 36 of 54

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Mark everything true about African Americans in the 1920s.

Select one or more of the following:

The UNIA's (United Negro Integration Association) Jamaican member Garvey was deported for demand of black pride and separatism.
The Majority of African Americans were urbanized.
The Great Migration of African Americans moving from farms to cities caused discrimination and violence in the north,.
W.E.B. Du Bois organized the first attempt to protest treatment of African Americans, the Niagara Movement.
Marcus Garvey Began the UNIA.
Marcus Garvey believed:
1. Blacks should go back to Africa
2. Black is Beautiful.
The NAACP attempted to change the way blacks were treated in courts.
Caused Race Riots in Chicago.

Explanation

Question 37 of 54

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Although Gays and Lesbians gained some attention for the first time in the 1920s, they did not face discrimination.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 38 of 54

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Check the characteristics of Flappers.

Select one or more of the following:

Short Skirts
Bobbed Hair
Assertion of independence/ equality.
Modest
Painting Faces
Smoking/ Drinking in public

Explanation

Question 39 of 54

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Nativists put immigration quotas on the US, limiting immigrants.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 40 of 54

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The Sacco and Vanzetti case featured to Italians put on trial for being anarchists, and executed by electric chair. Historians now say that they were really put to trial for "Being Italian".

This in no way reflects the 1920s, and people at the time were generally accepting of immigrants, not including Asians and Hispanics.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 41 of 54

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Protestant religion begins to spread in the middle/ west of the country.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 42 of 54

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The KKK is a prime example of the country's attempts to welcome change.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 43 of 54

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The Scopes Trial...

Select one of the following:

Was more of a trial of Creationist against Modernists, with American Liberties Union backing Clarence Darrow's defence and William Jennings Bryant as prosecutor.
Was trial against Italians Sacco and Vanzetti, accusing the immigrants of being anarchists and conspiring against the government.

Explanation

Question 44 of 54

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In the 20s, education became a larger financial burden and there was a major decline in students in schools across America. In an attempt to gain more students in the education system, there were more electives offered and the No Child Left Behind Program was put into place.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 45 of 54

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Check the truths of the Age of Play.

Select one or more of the following:

Commercial entertainment expanded in the US.
New things such as mahjong, crosswords, and the jitterbug became new.
Movies and sports became huge.
Babe Ruth Became a hero of the 1920s.
Politicians became more involved in American entertainment.

Explanation

Question 46 of 54

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Check all that is true of the Age of Ballyhoo.

Select one or more of the following:

Time Magazine appeared in 1923.
Tabloids were becoming a thing of the past.
Radio ads became unpopular.
Charles Lindbergh was blown out of proportion during the age of Ballyhoo.

Explanation

Question 47 of 54

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Prohibition...

Select one or more of the following:

was caused by the 18th Amendment that went into affect on January 16, 1820
was caused by the 19th Amendment that went into affect on January 16, 1820
prohibited the sale, manufacturing, sale , and transportation of alcohol
Prevented/ prohibited the consumption of Alcohol
Made crime rates to go up
Caused major crime to begin to decline
Was followed religiously by the American people
Supported Speak-Easies
Caused the creation of Speak-Easies
Made criminals like Al Capone become wealthy from bootlegging

Explanation

Question 48 of 54

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Prohibition was repealed 1933 by the 21st Amendment.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 49 of 54

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The Harlem Renaissance:

Select one or more of the following:

Celebrated Black Culture
Was a time when Jazz Music was popular.
Rooted in black culture.
Had achievements in literature, music, drama and painting.
Was the first time whites began to somewhat except black culture.
Was a time of temporary cultural tolerance.

Explanation

Question 50 of 54

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Hoover won the Presidential Election of 1928. He promoted business growth and his term ended in 1933.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 51 of 54

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On October 29th, towards the end of the 20s, stock prices drop and send the nation into a panic. The crash unleashes a massive, interrelated depression.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 52 of 54

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Practice Test for US Honors History II, at Phillipsburg Highschool. Chapter 24, The New Era. November 1, 2015

The Roaring 20s (Study Quiz)

The Roaring 20s (Study Quiz)

Question 1 of 54

Old America: ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌

Drag and drop to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 2 of 54

New America: ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌

Drag and drop to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 3 of 54

The New Era experienced a flourish in..

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 4 of 54

In the 1920s, all of this was happening EXCEPT:

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 54

After the drop in war production, there was a an economic high.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 6 of 54

What was the Bailey vs Drexel Furniture Case?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 7 of 54

Did the Colorado Coal Company vs United Mine Workers case do?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 54

Coolidge supported Farmers.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 9 of 54

How did Coolidge first become president?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 54

Warren G. Harding was:

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 54

Warren G. Harding beat Democrats James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt in the election of 1920

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 54

Harding pushed a "Return to Normalcy". He supported Fed. Gov. taking a role in the economy and social reforms.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 13 of 54

Andrew Mellon and Herbert Hoover were a part of Harding's cabinet.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 14 of 54

Calvin Coolidge was known as "Silent Cal". He kept taxes down and business up.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 15 of 54

Andrew Mellon was the most influential man in Coolidge's cabinet.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 16 of 54

The amount of millionaires rose in the 1920s.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 17 of 54

The ❌ Conference was a five power treaty that included the United States, ❌. It called on countries to reduce fleets to a ❌ ratio.

Drag and drop to complete the text.

Explanation

Question 18 of 54

US imports were at their lowest in 1922.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 19 of 54

The Fordey-McCumber Tariff Act openly...

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 20 of 54

Old America:
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❌
❌
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❌

New America:
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❌
❌
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❌
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❌
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