Roaring 20s Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. During the First Red Scare, federal agents arrested suspected radicals in raids that were widely criticized for violating civil liberties. What were these actions called?
The Bonus March
The Freedom Rides
The Fireside Chats
The Palmer Raids
2. What was one major effect of radio’s rapid growth during the 1920s?
It ended the commercial use of newspapers and magazines
It allowed news, music, sports, and advertising to reach large audiences at the same time
It confined popular entertainment mainly to local live performances
It prevented companies from marketing products nationally
3. Which development most directly helped create the mass consumer culture associated with the Roaring Twenties?
The disappearance of national brand names
A broad return to household production instead of factory goods
Federal rationing of cars and household appliances
Expanded advertising and greater use of installment credit
4. A Black family leaves rural Mississippi for Chicago, seeking industrial work and greater distance from Jim Crow restrictions. Their move is part of which historical development?
The Great Migration
The westward homestead movement
The Dust Bowl migration
The suburbanization of the Sun Belt
5. In 1926, customers enter a hidden club where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally. What kind of establishment have they entered?
A settlement house
A vaudeville theater
A speakeasy
A company store
6. Tax cuts associated with Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and the policies of Presidents Harding and Coolidge best reflected which general approach?
Favoring business growth, lower taxes, and limited federal economic regulation
Creating New Deal-style public employment programs
Expanding federal ownership of major industries
Breaking up nearly all large corporations through aggressive antitrust action
7. Why did many American farmers struggle economically even while other parts of the economy expanded during the 1920s?
Federal law prohibited farmers from selling crops across state lines
Falling postwar demand, overproduction, and debt pushed down farm incomes
Most farms stopped using machinery and returned to hand cultivation
Urban factories purchased nearly all available farmland
8. An investor buys $1,000 worth of stock by supplying only part of the price and borrowing the rest. Which 1920s practice does this illustrate?
Purchasing a Liberty Bond
Joining a mutual insurance association
Opening an installment plan for a household appliance
Buying on margin
9. A student studies the work of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and other Black artists centered in New York City during the 1920s. Which movement is the student examining?
The Lost Generation
The Harlem Renaissance
The Social Gospel movement
The Second Great Awakening
10. How did assembly-line production most directly affect automobile ownership in the 1920s?
It lowered production costs and made cars affordable to more households
It made automobiles individually crafted and more expensive
It limited automobile sales to businesses and government agencies
It replaced gasoline cars with electric streetcars
11. A woman arguing in 1920 that the Constitution now protected her right to vote would point to which amendment?
The Eighteenth Amendment
The Twentieth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment
The Twenty-First Amendment
12. What was the main purpose of the Dawes Plan of 1924?
To create a permanent military alliance between the United States and Germany
To prohibit American investment in European economies
To restructure German reparations payments with support from American loans
To divide Germany into occupation zones controlled by the United States
13. Which action was at the center of the Teapot Dome scandal?
A cabinet official leased federal oil reserves to private companies in exchange for personal benefits
Congress diverted veterans’ pensions into private banks
The president used campaign funds to purchase newspaper companies
Officials secretly sold military aircraft plans to a foreign government
14. What was a principal effect of the federal immigration quota laws enacted in 1921 and 1924?
They opened immigration equally to applicants from every region
They ended all restrictions on immigration from Asia
They applied numerical limits only to immigrants from Canada and Mexico
They favored immigration from northern and western Europe while sharply restricting other groups
15. In popular accounts of the 1920s, what did the flapper most commonly symbolize?
The return of most women to nineteenth-century legal restrictions
A nationwide rejection of urban entertainment by young adults
Changing expectations for some young women in fashion, leisure, and public behavior
A federal program that recruited women into agricultural work
16. A state prosecutes a public-school teacher for teaching human evolution in violation of state law. Which famous 1920s case matches this scenario?
Sacco and Vanzetti trial
Scopes trial
Brown v. Board of Education
Teapot Dome scandal