Twenties

Question 1

How did the socialist movement fair between the years of 1915 and 1925?

Answer 1

Poorly, leader jailed for beliefs

Question 2

Woodrow Wilson enacted each of the following Progressive Party principles EXCEPT:

Answer 2

ENACTED: Economically progressive- created Federal Trade Commission and passed the Clayton Anti Trust Act

Question 3

All of the following were reasons why farmers did poorly during the 1920s EXCEPT:

Answer 3

REASONS: farmers fed Europe during WWI, after they experienced surplus. Caused deflation of cost of farming goods, took out loans they couldn’t repay

Question 4

How did dating change during the 1920s compared to previous decades?

Answer 4

Women are more free to act as they please, men initiated dates, no more chaperones, went out without chaperones in cars

Question 5

All of the following were causes of the Great Migration EXCEPT:

Answer 5

CAUSES: share cropping sucked, Boll weevils destroyed crops, Jim Crowe laws, WWI provided job opportunities in north

Question 6

Jazz originated in what city?

Answer 6

New Orleans

Question 7

What were the musical forms that contributed to the development of jazz?

Answer 7

Blues, Rag Time, African folk

Question 8

Which of these 20th century Presidents was a Democrat?

Answer 8

Woodrow Wilson

Question 9

How did women’s roles and social behavior change after WWI?

Answer 9

Women can vote and are dancing/drinking/smoking/cutting hair She can do anything!

Question 10

Which President used fear and prejudice to beat the first Catholic to run for U.S. President?

Answer 10

Herbert Hoover