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1920s Test

 

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer three of the following on a separate sheet of paper and then fill in the blanks with the correct letter on the two matching parts of the test:

 

1. Discuss the reaction to various changes and ideas during the 1920s.

 

2. Discuss the Presidency of Warren G. Harding. What were his policies, and for what is his presidency most remembered? Explain.

 

3. Explain how various changes in business practices changed Americans’ lives.

 

4. Discuss the clash of rural and urban ideas and values in the 1920's.

 

5. Discuss the changes for women and blacks in the 1920's.

 

6. Discuss the changes in education and popular culture in the 1920's.

 

 

 

1920's Matching

 

  1. ____Was put on trial for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.
  2. ____Completed the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris.
  3. ____A period during which alcohol was illegal.
  4. ____Black leader who helped found the NAACP.
  5. ____Center of New York’s black cultural life.
  6. ____Defense attorney during the monkey trial.
  7. ____Amendment that gave women the vote.
  8. ____Amendment that began Prohibition.
  9. ____Amendment that repealed Prohibition.
  10. ____Women who adopted new styles of clothing and hair.
  11. ____Wanted African Americans to return to Africa and create their own empire.
  12. ____Places where illegal liquor could be purchased.
  13. ____Famous baseball player.
  14. ____First major sound movie.

 

 

A.  speakeasies

B.  Twenty-first Amendment

C.  Charles Lindbergh

D.  Niagara Movement

E.  W.E.B. Du Bois

F.  John Scopes

G.  flappers

H.  Marcus Garvey

I.   Alice Paul and Lucy Burns

J.  Harlem

K. Langston Hughes

L.  Prohibition

M. tabloid

N.  Knute Rockne

O.  Louis Armstrong

P.  The Jazz Singer

Q.  materialism

R.  Charlie Chaplin

S.  Eighteenth Amendment

T.  Jack Dempsey

U.  Mason-Dixon line

V.  Babe Ruth

W. James Weldon Johnson

X.  Nineteenth Amendment

Y.  T.S. Eliot

                    Z.  Clarence Darrow

 

 

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