1920's History Test

Question 1

Popular silent film actor

Answer 1

Charlie Chaplin

Question 2

Baseball player

Answer 2

Babe Ruth

Question 3

Jazz musician

Answer 3

Louis Armstrong

Question 4

First to fly a solo non-stop trip from New York to Paris

Answer 4

Charles Lindbergh

Question 5

Women wanted to be equal to me (wore short skirts and a bob hairstyle)

Answer 5

Flapper

Question 6

Powerful writer of 1920’s

Answer 6

Langstion Hughes

Question 7

Police arrest thousands of people who are suspected to be radicals .

Answer 7

Palmer raids

Question 8

Idea that intelligent’s is passed down fro your parents and that it is found more in some races then others

Answer 8

Eugenics

Question 9

Allows a certain amount of people to immigrate to U.S. and depends on your country of origin

Answer 9

Quota system

Question 10

Sold illegal alcohol

Answer 10

Boot legger

Question 11

President of the time; silent Cal

Answer 11

Calvin Coolidge

Question 12

Period of rising stocks

Answer 12

Bull market

Question 13

Period of declining stocks

Answer 13

Bear market

Question 14

Revolutionized production, wages, work conditions, and daily life

Answer 14

Henry Ford

Question 15

Promoted black nationalism and the separation of the races. Highly influential; traveled the world and settled in Harlem; Jamaican.

Answer 15

Marcus Garvey

Question 16

Growth and influence of Black culture in music, art, and literature

Answer 16

Harlem renaissance

Question 17

Hurt the citizen’s trust in the Government and it’s leaders. Albert Fall transferred oil from the Navy reserves to Teapot Dome and California to make quick and easy money for himself. This was stopped in 1924 and he went to jail for a year.

Answer 17

Teapot Done Scandal

Question 18

U.S. let Germany take loans from the U.S. so they can pay Britain and France. Thus, Britain and France could pay the U.S. back. Then the stock market crashed. Germany couldn’t take any loans and the plan stopped working.

Answer 18

Dawes plan

Question 19

Revival of the KKK on the top of stone mountain, with the influence of “ The Birth of a Nation”. Targets are blacks, Jews, immigrants, and Catholics. Between 4-5 million member’s.

Answer 19

Ku Klux Klan

Question 20

Prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. (Only amendment to be repealed and was enforced with the Volstead act).

Answer 20

18th Amendment

Question 21

Tennessee outlaws the teaching of evolution. John Scopes teaches the theory in Dayton, Tennessee to try and challenge this law. He gets arrested and the trial gains nation-wide attention. Clarence Darrow is the defense and William Jennings Bryan is the prosecution (Both famous people and makes the trial bigger). Scopes is found guilty and fined $100. The trail caused a major cultural division within the U.S.

Answer 21

Scopes Trial

Question 22

Widespread fear of suspected communists and radicals, starting a revolution in America. Eventually fizzled out but negative feelings remained towards immigrants and Union’s.

Answer 22

Red Scare