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Chapter 13 Packet--Dr. Larson
Matching
IDENTIFYING KEY TERMS, PEOPLE, AND PLACES
Match each item with the correct statement below. You will not use all the items.
a. demographics
b. barrio
c. Cotton Club
d. fundamentalism
e. mass media
f. Lost Generation
g. Harlem Renaissance
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methods of communicating information to large numbers of people
statistics that describe a population
African American literary movement of the 1920s
Spanish-speaking neighborhood
set of religious beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible
IDENTIFYING KEY TERMS, PEOPLE, AND PLACES
Match each name with the correct statement below. You will not use all the names.
a. Jim Thorpe
b. Charles Lindbergh
c. Edna St. Vincent Millay
d. Zora Neale Hurston
e. Warren G. Harding
f. Duke Ellington
g. Herbert Hoover
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6. Elected in 1920, Republican President ____ promised a “return to normalcy.”
7. ____ was a Native American sports hero who won Olympic gold medals and went on to play professional
football.
____ 8. ____ became a national hero after flying nonstop from New York to Paris.
____ 9. One of the most celebrated jazz musicians of the 1920s was pianist, composer, and bandleader ____.
____ 10. Harlem writer ____ gained fame with the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
IDENTIFYING KEY PEOPLE
Match each name to his or her description below. You will not use all the names.
a. Clarence Darrow
b. Al Capone
c. Georgia O’Keeffe
d. Marcus Garvey
e. Louis Armstrong
f. Amelia Earhart
g. Warren G. Harding
____ 11. Chicago gangster nicknamed “Scarface”
____ 12. supporter of free speech in the Scopes trial
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____ 13. flyer whose feats included a solo flight across the Atlantic
____ 14. popular jazz trumpeter and singer
____ 15. Jamaican-born leader of movement promoting African American pride
IDENTIFYING KEY TERMS, PEOPLE, AND PLACES
Match each item with the correct statement below. You will not use all the items.
a. Harlem Renaissance
b. Lost Generation
c. speakeasies
d. bootleggers
e. Jazz Age
f. Scopes trial
g. flapper
____ 16. Suppliers of illegal alcohol during Prohibition were known as ____.
____ 17. ____ was the term for expatriate writers who were repelled by American popular culture and society in the
1920s.
____ 18. The 1920s became known as the ____, after a popular, influential form of music.
____ 19. ____ were illegal bars that operated behind storefronts and pool rooms.
KEY TERMS
Match each of the following terms with its description below.
a. bootlegger
b. speakeasy
c. fundamentalism
d. Scopes trial
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a bar that operated illegally
case about the teaching of evolution in schools
set of beliefs held by religious traditionalists
supplier of illegal alcohol
KEY TERMS
Match each of the following terms with its description below.
a. demographics
b. barrio
c. flapper
____ 24. Spanish-speaking neighborhood
____ 25. new type of young woman
____ 26. statistics describing populations
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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS
____ 27. Though relatively few in number, flappers represented
a. a sign of social stability.
b. women’s desire to break with the past.
c. women’s desire to return to the past.
d. the significant impact of women on national elections.
____ 28. One major demographic shift of the 1920s was the movement of
a. large numbers of Americans to the suburbs.
b. large numbers of Americans from the North to the South.
c. French-speaking Canadians into barrios.
d. Mexican workers to New England.
____ 29. The rapid development of the mass media during the 1920s
a. promoted a mass migration to rural areas.
b. encouraged Americans to work longer hours.
c. promoted the creation of a national culture.
d. simplified life for most Americans.
____ 30. One result of Prohibition during the 1920s was
a. an increase in alcoholism.
b. a decline in dancing and socializing.
c. the rise of organized crime.
d. the creation of urban artistic colonies.
____ 31. Marcus Garvey led a movement to
a. segregate African Americans in northern cities.
b. build up African American self-respect and economic power.
c. unionize African American workers.
d. create new African American homelands in the Caribbean islands.
____ 32. How did life change for American women in the 1920s?
a. Many women felt freer to experiment with bolder styles and manners.
b. Married women found it much easier to balance careers and family life.
c. Most women grew long hair and stopped using makeup.
d. Women began to dominate the work force, often taking leadership positions.
____ 33. Why did many Americans become fascinated with heroes in the 1920s?
a. They longed to return to the days of World War I.
b. They longed for symbols of old-fashioned virtues.
c. They had little leisure time to pursue their own interests.
d. They objected to being reminded of basic American ideals.
____ 34. Which of the following was a long-term effect of Prohibition?
a. the consumer economy
b. the growth of organized crime
c. an end to alcoholism in the United States
d. the rise of fundamentalism
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____ 35. Why did some states ban the teaching of evolution in the schools?
a. The theory challenged scientific beliefs.
b. The theory appeared to violate the Constitution.
c. The theory seemed to contradict the Bible’s account of creation.
d. The theory was unknown to most teachers.
____ 36. The new morals and manners of the 1920s were reflected in
a. women’s fashions.
b. the Great Migration.
c. the new factory jobs.
d. politics.
____ 37. In the 1920s, the status of women in the workplace
a. improved greatly.
b. became even worse than before the war.
c. changed very little.
d. was better than the status of men.
____ 38. African Americans migrated north in the early 1900s mainly because of
a. offers of free land.
b. the climate.
c. an industrial boom.
d. a widespread business slowdown.
____ 39. After immigration laws were tightened, many low-paying jobs went to
a. union laborers.
b. migrants from the western states.
c. married women.
d. immigrants from Canada and Mexico.
____ 40. In the 1920s, trolleys to the suburbs were largely replaced by
a. horse-drawn carriages.
b. subways.
c. buses.
d. taxis.
____ 41. In Charles Lindbergh and other heroes, Americans recognized
a. a hunger for fame.
b. the virtues of the good old days.
c. a willingness to compromise.
d. the wildness of the American West.
____ 42. One of the most exciting heroes of this era was the baseball star
a. Babe Ruth.
b. Jack Dempsey.
c. Gertrude Ederle.
d. Nellie Tayloe Ross.
____ 43. The growth of radio and other mass media in the 1920s produced
a. a national culture.
b. a book-selling boom.
c. superb jazz musicians.
d. new ways of looking at local events.
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____ 44. The big change in movies in the late 1920s was
a. the introduction of color.
b. the use of advertising posters.
c. the rise of vaudeville.
d. the introduction of sound.
____ 45. Jazz was brought to northern cities by
a. older generations.
b. musicians from the Mexico City area.
c. southern African Americans.
d. World War I veterans.
____ 46. Clubs in the Harlem district of New York City were among the hottest places to listen to
a. radio.
b. political speeches.
c. jazz.
d. poetry readings.
____ 47. The small town, the medical business, and dishonest ministers were all targets of novelist
a. Duke Ellington.
b. Sinclair Lewis.
c. Langston Hughes.
d. William Randolph Hearst.
____ 48. Some members of the Lost Generation
a. wrote in praise of capitalism.
b. left Greenwich Village to live out West.
c. created famous “jazz paintings.”
d. left the country to live in Paris.
____ 49. Writers James Weldon Johnson and Zora Neale Hurston took part in a movement called
a. the Harlem Renaissance.
b. the New Negro.
c. the Great Migration.
d. improvisation.
____ 50. What was one of the unforeseen results of Prohibition?
a. racketeering
b. a revival of the Ku Klux Klan
c. bloody riots in Chicago
d. the Volstead Act
____ 51. What legal right was at issue in the Scopes trial?
a. the right to open a speakeasy
b. the right to hold fundamentalist beliefs
c. the right to hold modernist beliefs
d. the right to teach evolution in schools
____ 52. What group lost some momentum as a result of the Scopes trial?
a. lawyers
b. African Americans
c. fundamentalists
d. bootleggers
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____ 53. What was one cause of the race riots in Chicago in 1919?
a. a Ku Klux Klan rally
b. the Scopes trial
c. overcrowded neighborhoods
d. poor police training in riot control
____ 54. Who were the main targets of the Ku Klux Klan’s terror?
a. white fundamentalists
b. African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants
c. police officers and city officials
d. gamblers, gangsters, and prostitutes
____ 55. What did Marcus Garvey urge African Americans to do?
a. return to Africa
b. join the NAACP
c. study fundamentalism
d. take up arms against the new Klan
____ 56. One group that suffered economically during the 1920s was the
a. miners.
b. farmers.
c. publishers.
d. sports heroes.
____ 57. In the 1920s, fundamentalists gained attention for their belief in
a. the repeal of Prohibition.
b. the theory of evolution.
c. a literal interpretation of the Bible.
d. a larger role for technology in everyday life.
____ 58. At first, some women did not exercise their newly won right to vote because
a. they did not feel comfortable voting.
b. they could not leave their children and go to the polls.
c. their families discouraged them from voting.
d. all of the above.
____ 59. African Americans moved to the North in the 1920s because
a. jobs in the South were scarce and low-paying.
b. many southern factories refused to hire them.
c. many jobs opened up for them in the North.
d. all of the above.
____ 60. The rise of films, radio broadcasting, and the news media all helped to bring about
a. organized crime.
b. a national culture.
c. the Garvey movement.
d. the Ku Klux Klan.
____ 61. William Jennings Bryan took up the cause of fundamentalist Christians
a. at speakeasies in Chicago.
b. on new buses to the suburbs.
c. at the Scopes trial.
d. in Hollywood studios.
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____ 62. Flappers danced the Charleston, a new dance that embodied the spirit of
a. the Harlem Renaissance.
b. the Jazz Age.
c. the Lost Generation.
d. Prohibition.
Essay
CRITICAL THINKING
63. Making Predictions How might history have been different if women had not won the right to vote?
64. Recognizing Cause and Effect Explain how organized crime developed as a result of Prohibition and the
passage of the Eighteenth Amendment.
65. Comparing and Contrasting Compare and contrast the revival of the KKK with Marcus Garvey’s UNIA
movement.
66. Identifying Assumptions What did supporters of Prohibition assume outlawing alcohol would accomplish?
How accurate were their assumptions?
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