THE TWENTIES with
Bill Moyers
1. The 1920's
brought America into what "Age"?
Automobile
2. What
phrase is associated with this decade of the 1920's?
Roaring 20Õs
3. T or F The
20's were also a time of hard work, and prejudice against radicals, labor and
blacks.
True
4. What
happened for the first time in U.S. history concerning women in America?
Right to
vote
5. What dance
was the symbolic dance of the decade??
Charleston
6. T or F In
fashion, necklines plunged, and hemlines climbed?
True
7. What were
women who smoked, drank, and wore fashionable clothing with long beads and
short skirts called?
Flappers
8. What
government law made drinking a crime?
18th
Amendment Ð Prohibition
9. T or F
Every American abided by the restrictions of this law.
False
10. What
emerged to provide us with the images of that era, which ignored the routine
and ordinary and emphasized the novel and colorful, which shapes our images of
the 20's?
Movies/motion
pictures
11. Who was
the male love god and sex symbol of the 20's?
Rudolph
Valentino
12. Who flew
a solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927?
Charles
Lindberg
13. What
event spurred the advance of machines and the growing economy in America?
World War
I/The Great War
14. What did
Henry Ford introduce in 1908 and 1910?
Automobile
15. T or F
When electricity reached just about every household, appliances were made and
designed for women. Men did not share in the work of the household.
True
16. T or F A
majority of Americans traded on margin in the stockmarket?
False
17. In what
year did the stock market crash?
1929
18. What
political party was in power during the end of the 1920's?
Republican
19. T or F
People believed Harding to be a good looking man but he was also guilty of
infidelity and incompetent at his job.
True
20. What was
the name of the largest scandal that rocked Harding's Administration?
Teapot
Dome
21. What
Republican President believed in a policy of laissez faire, meaning the
government should interfere as little as possible with American business.
Calvin
Coolidge
22. What man
became a self made man and millionaire who won the presidency as a Republican
in 1928?
Herbert
Hoover
23. What
issue caused governor of New York, Al Smith not get the majority of the popular
vote for the presidency in 1928?
His Catholicism
24. What
economic callamity occured early in Hoover's administration in 1929?
Stock
Market Crash
25. What
American doctrine was reborn as fear of communism, and hatred of Jews,
Catholics, and Blacks grew, resulting in intolerance?
Nativism
26. What
movement practically collapsed during the 1920's?
Union/Labor
27. What was
the term for the great fear of communism that developed in the United States
after WWI?
Red Scare
28. Besides
being Italian immigrants, what probably hurt the cause of Sacco and Vanzetti
most?
They were
anarchists
29. What 1925
court case pitted supporters of evolution against supporters of creationism in
Tennessee?
Scopes
Trial/Monkey Trial
30. T or F
Women could vote at this time, but they were still treated as second class
citizens because they worked jobs during the day and resumed work "in
their place" in the kitchen at night.
True
31. T or F
Relation between the races had not changed much in the years following the
Emancipation Proclamation as segregation persisted and lynching continued.
True
32. T or F
The 1920's were a multifaceted time period in our nation's history, a much more
complex time period than is sometimes portrayed in movies and film.
True