Roaring Twenties Review

Question 1

Made laundry much easier for women with the introduction of electricity in the homes

Answer 1

What is the washing machine?

Question 2

Women fought for this in the 1920s and continue to fight for it today in the workplace

Answer 2

What is equality?

Question 3

This amendment gave women the right to vote

Answer 3

What is the 19th amendment?

Question 4

This is another name for women gaining the right to vote

Answer 4

What is women’s suffrage ?

Question 5

This man was president after Woodrow Wilson and died while in office

Answer 5

Who was warren g. Harding?

Question 6

A group of workers that come together to fight for and advance their rights

Answer 6

What is labor union ?

Question 7

One way that unions can fight for what they want over 3,000 of these happened after ww1

Answer 7

What are strikes?

Question 8

This man was president during the majority of the 1920s and worked to keep spending down

Answer 8

Who is Calvin Coolidge ?

Question 9

This was a scandal in gardings presidency that dealt with old-rich government land being rented out to oil-business for a profit

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What is the teapot dome scandal?

Question 10

This was the fear of communism during the 1920s

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What is the red scare?

Question 11

This group showed hatred towards blacks, Jewish people, immigrants, and unions

Answer 11

What is the kkk?

Question 12

These Italian. Immigrants. Were charged with robbery and convinced of murder simply because of their ethnicity

Answer 12

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

Question 13

People that believed that only those born in their country were welcome.

Answer 13

Who were nativists?

Question 14

This law allowed only a set amount of immigrants from forgein countries into the us after ww1

Answer 14

What is the quota act?

Question 15

Harlem is a predominantly black neighborhood in this city

Answer 15

Where is New York City?

Question 16

The spreading of black culture to the mainstream (white) public was known as this

Answer 16

What is the Harlem renaissance?

Question 17

These are the three types of music that were created and made popular by artists in Harlem

Answer 17

What are jazz, blues, and swing?

Question 18

This man believed that all black people should go back to Africa because blacks would never be equal to whites in America

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Who is Marcus Garvey?

Question 19

This poet from Harlem wrote about black life from his own life experiences

Answer 19

Who is Langston Hughes?

Question 20

This American hero flew across the Atlantic by himself for the first time

Answer 20

Who is Charles Lindbergh

Question 21

The use of automobiles made travel possible and caused cities to grow, which was known as this

Answer 21

What is urban sprawl?

Question 22

Because Americans could not afford everything they wanted they used these to buy now and pay in payments later

Answer 22

What are installment plans

Question 23

The 18th amendment which banned the creation sale purchase and consumption of alcohol was also known as this

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What is prohibition

Question 24

These were secret bars where people needed a password to enter and drink alcohol

Answer 24

What are speakeasies?

Question 25

This type of person in the 1920s would have Been a supporter of prohibition and John scopes arrest

Answer 25

What is a traditionalist?