The Jazz Age Test

REVIEW

1. What was America’s paranoid fear of communism called?

2. What organization was founded in the 1920s to protect Americans’ freedoms?

3. What were the rebellious young women of the 1920s called?

4. What new products were created during the 20’s?

5. Why did sports become more popular during the 1920s?

6. What industry was developed on the radio to help sell new products?

7. What famous trial was encouraged by the ACLU to challenge the Tennessee law against teaching about the theory of evolution?

8. Why were Black Americans less willing to submit to racist discrimination after WWI?

9. What laws did the Palmer Raids violate?

10. What civil rights group was formed to challenge the Palmer Raids?

11. Where was the center of the movie making industry?

12. What city was the center of organized crime?

13. What was the first “talkie”?

14. In what year did the stock market crash?

15. Explain why it is not against the law to be a communist in America.

16. What did the “Back to Africa” movement do for Black Americans?

17. What approach did the presidents of the 1920s have toward business?

18. How did most Americans feel about the Palmer Raids?

19. Who was Al Capone?

20. What star of silent films was known as the “Little Tramp”?

21. What was Jim Thorpe known for?

22. Who was the defense attorney in the Scopes “monkey” trial?

23. Who wrote The Great Gatsby, about life in the 20s?

24. During what years was Warren Harding president?

25. What is Eliot Ness famous for?

26. Name two similarities between the 1920s and today’s culture.

27. Name two differences between the 1920s and today’s culture.

28. What was the popular music of the 1920s?

29. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?

30. Why were there racial riots in many cities after WWI?

31. Name the three presidents of the twenties.

32. Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh both flew across the Atlantic, both starting and ending their flights in what two cities?

33. Lindbergh’s plane was called?

34. Intolerance toward what group of people led to the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti?

35. What was the group of artists that emerged during the twenties called?

36. What city in Europe did many artists who were disgusted with American greed move to?

37. What school subject did Tennessee outlaw for fundamentalist Christian reasons?

38. What groups did the KKK discriminate against?

39. What happened to the economy as a result of the stock market crash?

40. What amendment made alcohol illegal?

41. What were illegal bars called?

42. What new form of entertainment allowed people to listen to shows in their homes?

43. Why did immigration increase during the 20s?

44. What did Georgia O’Keefe do that make her famous?

45. Who created Disney Land and Mickey Mouse?

46. In what sport did Jack Dempsey excel?

47. What Harlem Renaissance artist wrote about the rural Black experience?

48. What organization did J. Edgar Hoover originally head?

49. What did Charles Lindberg do?

50. Who was Louis Armstrong?

51. For what was Buster Keaton known?

52. What movement was created by Marcus Garvey?

53. Who is known for the song, The Good Ship Lollipop?

54. Who is known as the “voice of the Harlem Renaissance”?

55. At what sport was Helen Wills a champ?

56. Who was the first woman to swim the English Channel?

57. What feat earned Amelia Earhardt fame?

58. What Swedish movie star was known for being reclusive?

59. Who was Sigmund Freud?

60. What team did Babe Ruth play for?

61. What actor of silent films is known as “The Sheik” for his role in a film of the same title?

62. Who was Bessie Smith?

63. Who led the Red Scare hunt for communist and anarchist radicals?

64. Who was known for his golfing skills?

65. What sport was Red Grange known for?

66. The racial riots of the 20s led to the rise of what racist organization?

67. What led to the rise of organized crime?

68. How did the recklessness of the “Roaring Twenties” contribute to the Depression of the 30s?

Jazz Age Test

Review Answers

1. The Red Scare

2. ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

3. flappers

4. vacuum cleaner, electric toaster, radio

5. people had more leisure time and money than they did during the war, plus the radio popularized sports heroes

6. advertising

7. The Scopes “monkey” trial

8. They returned from fighting feeling more prideful due to their contributions to the war.

9. the fourth amendment protection provided by search warrants and habeas corpus

10. ACLU

11. Hollywood

12. Chicago

13. The Jazz Singer

14. 1929

15. The first amendment to the constitution protects the rights to citizens to believe what they will and express their beliefs, even if their beliefs are unpopular

16. helped to feel pride in their heritage

17. “laissez-faire” or hands off

18. They supported them

19. known as “Scarface”, he was a crime boss in Chicago

20. Charlie Chaplin

21. he was a mulit-talented Olympic athlete

22. Clarence Darrow

23. F. Scott Fitzgerald

24. 1920-1924

25. he jailed Al Capone for tax evasion

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27.

28. Jazz

29. a scandal during Harding’s administration in which Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall illegally leased federal land in Wyoming to oil companies

30. Black Americans had migrated to Northern cities for jobs, and veterans returning from WWI were competing with them for work

31. Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover

32. New York and Paris

33. Sprit of St. Louis

34. immigrants

35. The Lost Generation

36. Paris

37. evolution

38. Blacks, Jews, Catholics, immigrants

39. it fell into an economic depression

40. 18th

41. speakeasies

42. radio

43. jobs were available

44. paint in the modern style

45. Walt Disney

46. boxing

47. Zora Neale Hurston

48. the General Intelligence Division of the department of Justice

49. the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean

50. a jazz musician from New Orleans

51. comedic acting in silent films

52. Back to Africa

53. Shirley Temple

54. Langston Hughes

55. tennis

56. Gertrude Ederle

57. she was the first woman to fly a plane across the Atlantic Ocean

58. Greta Garbo

59. an Austrian psychologist

60. the New York Yankees

61. Rudolph Valentino

62. a blues singer

63. A. Mitchell Palmer

64. Bobby Jones

65. football

66. Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

67. prohibition

68. people were “living for today” and not thinking carefully about their futures, and this reckless spending led, in part, to the stock market crash