Roaring 20s quiz

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quiz on main events in the roaring 20s
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Quiz by georgina kiff, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by georgina kiff about 9 years ago
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Question 1

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What were Flappers?
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  • Young women who enjoyed smoking and dancing
  • People who worked in the stock markets
  • People who smuggle alcohol in to the USA

Question 2

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Who was a Famous baseball star?
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  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Babe Ruth
  • Woodrow Wilson

Question 3

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What was the name of the first car Henry Ford created?
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  • Model T
  • The Car 1.0
  • Motor sport

Question 4

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What was the Fordney-McCumber Tariff used for?
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  • Raised duties on both factory and farm goods
  • Tax on imported and exported goods
  • Immigrants had to pay tax to get into the US

Question 5

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How did companies advertise new products?
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  • word of mouth
  • Radio and film
  • Flyers

Question 6

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Where did people by shares?
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  • The stock market
  • The bank of America
  • Post office

Question 7

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Who was buying the shares?
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  • Rich industrialists
  • Ordinary people
  • Poor people

Question 8

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What is the assembly line?
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  • Divided manufacturing tasks among a group of workers alongside a moving belt
  • A line of cars outside the car factory
  • A line of workers as they wait to get into the factories

Question 9

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In what year was the first talking picture released?
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  • 1927
  • 1922
  • 1925

Question 10

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What were the new dance crazes?
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  • Charleston and Lindy hop
  • YMCA and the jive
  • The twist and the jazz hands

Question 11

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What does the KKK stand for?
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  • Kill Kill Kill
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Kick Keep Kill

Question 12

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Who did the KKK dislike?
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  • Immigrants, Jews and Catholics
  • Poor people and farmers
  • Politicians, Bankers and entrepreneurs

Question 13

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What does W.A.S.P stand for?
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  • White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
  • What Are Stupid Politian's
  • Who Are Saxon Protestant

Question 14

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What test did immigrants had to pass?
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  • literacy
  • reading
  • maths

Question 15

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what did the National Origins Act discriminate against?
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  • Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia
  • German and Italian people
  • people outside of America

Question 16

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What is prohibition?
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  • Banning of foreign goods
  • Banning of food made in foreign countries
  • Banning of alcohol

Question 17

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Who was a famous gangster?
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  • Al Capone
  • Ben Taylor
  • William Penny

Question 18

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What were speakeasies?
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  • stolen or smuggled alcohol
  • homemade liquor
  • illegal drinking clubs

Question 19

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what is moonshine?
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  • home made alcohol
  • smuggled alcohol
  • illegal drinking clubs

Question 20

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what did rum-runners do?
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  • smuggled alcohol
  • make their own liquor
  • stole smuggled alcohol

Question 21

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why didn't the American people trust German brewers?
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  • untrustworthy after WW1
  • alcohol tasted funny
  • found poison in several pints of beer
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