Name: ______
Period: ______
True or False:(circle T if the statement is True, circle F if the statement is False)
1. T or F In the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan targeted not only African Americans
but also recent immigrants, especially Catholics and Jews, they
also focused on influencing politics.
2. T or F In the 1920s the basic rules that defined proper female behavior
were beginning to change and an increasing number sought a greater
sense of equality in their relationships with men.
3. T or F A science teacher in Tennessee, John Scopes, was arrested for
violating a law that prohibited him from teaching evolution to his
students.
4. T or F After the states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 women
voters made their presence felt at the ballot box by representing
aunique group of voters with a distinct point of view.
5. T or F Flappers became a symbol of the 1920s and represented all women of
their time.
6. T or F With Congress passing the Volstead Act enforcing prohibition became
an easy task for federal agents.
7. T or F The decade of the 1920s became known as the Roaring Twenties for
the speedy social change it brought to the United States.
8. T or F Fundamentalists believed that the theory of evolution supported the
biblical account of how God created humans.
9. T or F During the 1920s Americans began attending college in lower numbers
because of the rise of consumerism.
10. T or F The Scopes Trial really became a contest between the competing
ideas of Christianity and evolution not the guilt of John Scopes.
11. T or F During the economic boom of the 1920s woman again joined the
workforce in large numbers and filled a greater range of jobs than
ever before.
12. T or F Virginia passed a law in 1925 making it a crime to teach evolution
to students.
13. T or F School attendance increased along with the growth of American
industry.
14. T or F In Wyoming, Nellie Taylor Ross became the nation’s first woman
governor when she won the election in 1924.
15. T or F In the minds of some people, rural America represented changes
that threatened traditional values.
Fill-in-the-blank: (choose the correct word from the word bank)
16. In 1917, Congress proposed an amendment to the Constitution that made it
illegal tomanufacture, transport, or sell alcohol in theUnited States,
ratificationof this amendment, ______Amendment, followed in1919.
17. The states ratified the ______Amendment in 1920 after a
decades-long struggle, women could finally vote.
18. Throughout the history of the United States groups had fought to outlaw
______because many believed it was the source of much
unhappiness, hurt families, and promoted crime.
19. Hard times in agriculture contributed to a loss or rural ______,
as people sought jobs in the cities, in 1920 for the first time ever, more Americans
lived in urban areas than in rural areas.
20. As ______gained strength in the 1920s, it came into sharper
conflict with the teachings of modern science, such as the theories of the 19th-
century scientist Charles Darwin.
21. ______was a term that referred to young women of the era
who defied traditional ideas of proper dress and behavior.
22. Related to the rural-to-urban population shift was an increase in ______
in the United States, many states had passed laws requiring young people to attend
school.
23. The rise of the ______also helped shift the geographic
borderline between rural and urban America because the distances that had once
separated them from the cities shrank.
24. This population change also produced important shifts in ______,
the key ideas and beliefs a person holds.
Matching:(match the letter with the correct definition)
25. ______most notorious Prohibition-era gangster from Chicago
26. ______fundamentalist preacher who was well known for healing
thesick through prayer
27. ______illegal bars where alcohol was served
28. ______theory that inherited characteristics of a population
changeover generations and as a result of these changes,
newspecies sometimes arise
29. ______liquor smugglers
30. ______represented John Scopes and was perhaps the most famous
criminal lawyer in the country
31. ______belief in the literal interpretation of the Bible
32. ______led the prosecution in the Scopes Trial and became a
major figure in the fundamentalist movement
33. ______revivalist preacher who condemned radicals and
criticizedthechanging attitudes of women
34. ______19th-century scientist who developed the evolution theory
Organizing the Information:fill in the chart below with the appropriate person (10 points)
True or False:(circle T if the statement is True, circle F if the statement is False)
2. T or F Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois worked together to spread their
belief that African Americans could and should look out for their
own interests, without involvement from whites.
3. T or F Jazz music had clear cut rules rather than spirit and creativity.
4. T or F Many African Americans looked to the North with hope of finding the
freedom and economic opportunities unavailable to them in the
South.
5. T or F In 1923 the FBI had collected enough evidence to charge W.E.B.
Du Bois with mail fraud and sent him to prison.
6. T or F Tension contributed to a wave of racial violence in the summer of
1919, the deadliest riot occurred in Chicago, Illinois.
7. T or F Historically, black actors, musicians, and other performers were
not given serious roles on the American stage, this began to change
in the 1920s.
8. T or F African Americans moved North with high hopes and many found
opportunities there and escaped the effects of racism.
9. T or F Many African Americans believed that they had earned greater
freedom by helping fight for freedom overseas in World War I.
10. T or F W.E.B Du Bois looked forward to the day when Africans from around
the world could return to Africa and create a new empire.
11. T or F A common theme among Harlem Renaissance writers was defiance or
resistance in the face of white prejudice.
Matching:(match the letter with the correct definition)
12. ______promoted self-reliance for African Americans,
its slogan was “Back to Africa”
13. ______This music blended several different musical
forms from the Lower South into a wholly
original American form of music that was new,
different, and very exciting
14. ______This was the major relocation of African
Americans by the thousands into northern cities
such as Chicago and Detroit
15. ______This group worked to end discrimination and
mistreatment of African Americans throughout
the United States
16. ______This movement attracted a historic influx of
talented African American writers, thinkers,
musicians, and artists in a New York city neighborhood
Fill-in-the-blank: (choose the correct word from the word bank)
1. Several pilots had attempted a daring ______flight,
but no one had succeeded—until Charles Lindbergh.
2. In October 1920 Westinghouse Company started the first corporate radio
______in the United States, its call letters were
KDKA.
3. ______wrote beautiful poetry that ranged from
celebrations of youthful spirit to concern over leading social issues of the
day.
4. The great popularity of movies in the 1920s helped to create a new type of
celebrity, the ______.
5. Technical improvements in radios increased their popularity, a new device
called the ______greatly increased the quality of
radio sound.
6. Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos were also included among the so-called
______, a group of American writers who chose to live
in Europe following World War I.
7. Another important movie innovation of the 1920s was the introduction of films
with ______, such as The Jazz Singer.
8. ______wrote a novel entitled Babbitt which
underscored the costs of success in America by illustrating the emptiness of
middle-class life.
9. The ______helped create a shared culture that
included a growing number of Americans.
True or False:(circle T if the statement is True, circle F if the statement is False)
10. T or F In 1925 advertising executive Bruce Barton published The Man
Nobody Knows, he compared the biblical figure of Jesus to a
modern-day business executive.
11. T or F Like the automobile, the radio helped break down barriers that had
once separated country people from city folk.
12. T or F The term Lost Generation which referred to the group of American
writers who chose to live in Europe following World War I was
invented by Mary Pickford.
13. T or F Charles Lindbergh believed that making a transatlantic flight
would require a large plane with multiple engines.
14. T or F By the standards then and today The Birth of a Nation included
themes and images that many people considered racist yet it
introduced many advanced filmmaking techniques.
15. T or F Willa Cather and Edith Wharton produced some of the era’s most
notable works of literature and were included in the so-called
Lost Generation.
16. T or F In the 1920s the popularity of movies was enormous, by the end
of the decade, experts estimated that Americans bought 100 million
tickets a week.
17. T or F Radio helped inflame public passion for sports.
18. T or F In 1937 Amelia Earhart set another record by completing her first
around the world flight.
Matching:(match the letter with the correct definition)
19. ______His novel The Great Gatsby explored the
lives of the rich and critically examined
the values of the wealthy
20. ______This filmmaker produced the powerful and
controversial The Birth of a Nation
21. ______He was a major star of swashbuckling action
films and was married to actress Mary Pickford
22. ______He invented the radio in the late 1800s
23. ______writer of music and especially remembered for
his composition Rhapsody in Blue
24. ______This silent film actor was one of the brightest
stars of the 1920s
25. ______She became the first woman to fly across the
Atlantic and set speed and distance records
as a pilot
26. ______Walt Disney released an animated film called
Steamboat Willie which featured this new
cartoon movie star
27. ______She became a movie sex symbol and was
nicknamed the “It Girl”
28. ______On May 21, 1927, this pilot became the first
to successfully make a transatlantic flight