1. The Roaring Twenties

Question 0

What were the causes of the economic boom?

Answer 0

• Raw materials
• New industries, electrical goods
• Government policies, Laissez Faire
• Hire purchase, ‘buy now pay later’

Question 1

What were the “Roaring Twenties”?

Answer 1

The Roaring Twenties were a name given to the 1920s as it was a time where the American economy prospered.

Question 2

What industries prospered in 1920s America?

Answer 2

• New industries
• Cars - Ford, Chrysler, General Motors
• Electrical goods - vacuum, radio
• Chemicals

Question 3

What were the problems in agriculture during 1920s America?

Answer 3

• Cheap imports.
• New machinery leading to overproduction.
• Sharecroppers were paid in goods rather than money.
• Less than 10% had electricity

Question 4

Who did not share the prosperity of the 1920s?

Answer 4

Farmers, workers, minorities

Question 5

What were the crazes of 1920s America?

Answer 5

• Cinema
• Sport
• Music (jazz especially)
• Night clubs
• Radio

Question 6

Who was the American president elected in 1920?

Answer 6

Warren G. Harding

Question 7

Who became president of America after Warren Harding died?

Answer 7

Calvin Coolidge

Question 8

What made it illegal to sell or distribute alcohol in America from 1920-1932?

Answer 8

Prohibition

Question 9

Which Amendment created Prohibition?

Answer 9

18th

Question 10

What were alcohol smugglers known as during prohibition in America?

Answer 10

Bootleggers

Question 11

Bars that operated illegally during the time of Prohibition were called what?

Answer 11

Speakeasies

Question 12

What bad thing happened during Prohibition?

Answer 12

Organised crime increased and got more power.

Question 13

Which Amendment ended Prohibition?

Answer 13

21st

Question 14

Which Amendment gave women the right to vote in America?

Answer 14

19th

Question 15

Who introduced the assembly line to his automobile plant in 1913?

Answer 15

Henry Ford

Question 16

The name of a famous movie star comedian in 1920s America

Answer 16

Charlie Chaplin

Question 17

Young women in the 1920s who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting

Answer 17

Flappers

Question 18

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 18

An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life.

Question 19

What was the Red Scare?

Answer 19

The time in the 1920s when people were afraid of immigrants, Communists and Anarchists. People were arrested just because they fell into one of those groups.

Question 20

The name of the trial when 2 Italian Anarchists were convicted of murder and robbery with questionable evidence.

Answer 20

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial.

Question 21

What were the Palmer Raids?

Answer 21

The Palmer Raids were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States

Question 22

The trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher who taught evolution in a science class.

Answer 22

Scopes Trial

Question 23

What organisation, which was against Catholics, Jews, and people of colour, grew large during the 1920s?

Answer 23

Ku Klux Klan

Question 24

What year was Herbert Hoover elected president?

Answer 24

1928

Question 25

Why did the Stock Exchange collapse?

Answer 25

• Overproduction;
• Unequal distribution of wealth.
• Tariff Policy.
• Financial Speculation.