Name: _______________________________________________
Date: __________
Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 1. It was difficult to enforce the laws governing prohibition for all of the following reasons
except
A. many people were determined to break
C. many law enforcement officials took
the laws.
bribes from smugglers and bootleggers.
B. insufficient funds were provided to pay
D. prohibition banned only alcoholic
for enforcement.
beverages manufactured in the United
States.
____ 2. To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden nightclubs known as
A. speakeasies.
C. tenements.
B. penthouses.
D. tea rooms.
____ 3. The Harlem Renaissance refers to
A. a struggle for civil rights led by the
NAACP.
B. a population increase in Harlem in the
1920s.
C. a program to promote African-American
owned businesses.
D. a celebration of African-American
culture in literature and art.
____ 4. John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of
A. biology.
C. creationism.
B. evolution.
D. fundamentalism.
____ 5. Fundamentalists believed that
A. evolution and creationism could
coincide.
B. prohibition should be repealed.
C. the Bible should be taken literally.
D. drinking alcohol was acceptable.
____ 6. "Double standard" refers to
A. stricter social and moral standards for
women than for men in the 1920s.
C. amount of work that women did both at
home and outside the house in the
1920s.
B. lower wages women earned compared to D. unfair treatment of women in the
those earned by men in the 1920s.
workplace in the 1920s.
____ 7. F. Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920s as the
A. Harlem Renaissance.
C. Prohibition Age.
B. Jazz Age.
D. Roaring Twenties.
____ 8. Charles Lindbergh was famous as a(n)
A. politician.
B. composer.
C. inventor.
D. pilot.
____ 9. The NAACP did all of the following except
A. fight for legislation to protect African
Americans.
B. work with anti-lynching organizations.
C. propose that African Americans move
back to Africa.
D. publish The Crisis.
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____ 10. Jazz music was born in New Orleans and was spread to the North by such musicians as
A. Louis Armstrong.
C. Paul Robeson.
B. Zora Neale Hurston.
D. Langston Hughes.
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 11. By what percent did the population of African Americans in Louisiana change between
1890 and 1920?
A. -11%
C. 0%
B. -7%
D. +11%
____ 12. By what percent did the African-American population change in New York?
A. -3%
C. +1%
B. -1%
D. +3%
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____ 13. What did Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina have in common during the period
represented on the map?
A. All were northern states.
C. All experienced an increase in
percentage of African-American
population.
B. All experienced a decrease in
D. The percentage of African-American
percentage of African-American
population remained the same in all.
population.
____ 14. Which state had the largest percent increase in its African-American population?
A. Louisiana
C. West Virginia
B. Florida
D. Indiana
____ 15. What trend does this map illustrate?
A. the movement of African Americans to
the North
B. the movement of African Americans to
the South
C. the discrimination faced by African
Americans in the South
D. the immediate effects of the abolition of
slavery
____ 16. What percent of the population in 1929 had a gross income between $3,000 and
$3,999?
A. 4 percent
C. 12 percent
B. 8 percent
D. 17 percent
____ 17. Which group of income earners had an average income of $6,327?
A. top 20 percent
C. third 20 percent
B. second 20 percent
D. bottom 40 percent
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____ 18. The top 20 percent of the population earned 54.4 percent of all income earned in 1929.
What percent did the bottom 40 percent earn?
A. 12.5 percent
C. 19.3 percent
B. 13.8 percent
D. 26.3 percent
____ 19. In 1929, much more did the average family in the top 20 percent earn than the average
family in the bottom 40 percent?
A. $725
C. $1527
B. $881
D. $5602
____ 20. What percent of all income was earned by the third 20 percent of income earners?
A. 12.5 percent
C. 19.3 percent
B. 13.8 percent
D. 54.4 percent
____ 21. In which of the following groups did all three states experience a decrease in the
percentage of African-American population?
A. Oklahoma, Texas,Ohio
C. Kentucky, Delaware, Pennsylvania
B. Louisiana, Georgia, Maryland
D. New York, Georgia, Florida
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____ 22. In which of the following groups did all three states experience an increase in the
percentage of African-American population?
A. West Virginia, New York, Illinois
C. Delaware, Indiana, North Carolina
B. Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky
D. Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas
____ 23. What kind of information is provided by the map?
A. the number of African Americans who
C. the percentage of change in each
migrated from 1890 to 1920
state's African American population
B. the percentage of the population that
D. the number of African Americans that
migrated between 1890 and 1920
moved from the South to the North
between 1890 and 1920
____ 24. Which state had the largest percent change in its African-American population?
A. West Virginia
C. Florida
B. South Carolina
D. Louisiana
____ 25. According to the map, what do the southern states have in common?
A. They experienced an increase in
C. They all relied heavily on industry.
African-American population.
B. They experienced a decrease in
D. They all had laws that discriminated
African-American population.
against African Americans.
____ 26. What percent of the population in 1929 had a gross income of more than $5,000?
A. 2 percent
C. 5 percent
B. 3 percent
D. 6 percent
____ 27. The bottom 40 percent of the population earned 12.5 percent of all personal income in
1929. What did the top 40 percent earn?
A. 54.4 percent
C. 73.7 percent
B. 33.1 percent
D. 87.5 percent
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____ 28. What group of income earners had an average income of $725?
A. bottom 40 percent
C. second 20 percent
B. third 20 percent
D. top 20 percent
____ 29. Which of the following statements about the economy in 1929 is supported by the
information in the charts?
A. Wealth was distributed evenly among all C. A strong middle class was steadily
Americans.
emerging in the United States.
B. The economy was the most prosperous it D. A small percentage of Americans
had ever been in American history.
received over half the income earned.
____ 30. Which of the following statements can be inferred by comparing the information in the
two charts?
A. The top 20 percent of Americans
C. Americans who earned less than $1,000
earned incomes greater than $6,237 in
in 1929 took home about 12.5% of the
1929.
total income earned.
B. The majority of the population in 1929
D. The bottom 40 percent of the
earned less than $3,000 a year.
population had incomes greater than
$1,000 in 1929.
Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 31. _____ marked the works of many famous writers of the 1920s, including the Lost
Generation.
A. Fierce patriotism
C. Critical views of American culture
B. Celebration of small-town life
D. Deep respect for tradition
____ 32. Except for ___, all of the following were likely to approve of prohibition in the 1920s and
early 1930s.
A. recent immigrants
C. members of organized crime syndicates
B. rural residents of the South
D. the Women's Christian Temperance
Union
____ 33. ___ increased during the 1920s.
A. Child labor
B. The birthrate
C. The school dropout rate
D. The crime rate
____ 34. The "Great Migration" of 1910-1920 refers to the movement of ___.
A. immigrants from Europe to America
C. African Americans from the United
States to Africa
B. people from rural areas and towns to
D. African Americans from the South to
large cities
northern cities
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____ 35. The main significance of the trial of John T. Scopes was that ___.
A. it ended the career of William Jennings C. it highlighted the struggle between
Bryan, who was unable to defend
science and religion in American
fundamentalism
schools
B. its outdoor setting allowed many
D. led to the repeal of a law that made
Americans to witness the justice system
teaching evolution in schools illegal
in action
____ 36. Except for ___, alcohol caused all of the following, according to most fundamentalists.
A. urban slums
C. crime
B. child abuse
D. evangelism
____ 37. Except for ___, all of the following allowed women to shed old roles in the 1920s.
A. work opportunities provided by the new
C. new managerial positions that were
industrial economy
open to women
B. equal wages paid to women and men
D. equality in the business world
____ 38. Concert music composer ___ was influenced by both the music of ___ and traditional
music.
A. Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin
C. George Gershwin, Louis Armstrong
B. Bessie Smith, Georgia O'Keeffe
D. Paul Robeson, Duke Ellington
____ 39. Ernest Hemingway, author of The Sun Also Rises, introduced ___.
A. a simplified style of writing
C. a patriotic movement in literature
B. an elaborate style of writing
D. glorification of war in literature
____ 40. The ___ fought for legislation to protect African-American rights under the leadership of
___.
A. NAACP, Marcus Garvey
C. NAACP, James Weldon Johnson
B. UNIA, Langston Hughes
D. UNIA, Claude McKay
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