Name:____________________________________ Class: U.S. History 2 Date:________________
Mr. Wallace
Chapter 17 - The Jazz Age - Chapter Assessment
1) By the 1820s, the automobile had become an accepted part of American life.
a) True
b) False
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2) Many people viewed the Sacco and Vanzetti case as an example of prejudice against people
based on their ethnic origin and beliefs.
a) True
b) False
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3) Louis Armstrong introduced an improvisational, early form of jazz.
a) True
b) False
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4) Marcus Garvey preached a message of separation and independence from whites.
a) True
b) False
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5) In the 1920s, most African American voters in the North cast their votes for Republicans, the
party of FDR.
a) True
b) False
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6) Henry Ford's system for making cars increased efficiency by
a) reducing the number of parts needed.
b) training each worker to do every task.
c) assigning a team to each car.
d) dividing operations into simple tasks.
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7) The new morality of the 1920s glorified
a) work.
c) personal freedom.
b) traditional values.
d) wealth.
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8) John T. Scopes was put on trail for
a) violating Prohibition laws.
c) accepting bribes.
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b) being a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
d) teaching evolution.
9) The flowering of African American arts in the 1920s became known as the
a) Harlem Renaissance.
b) Great Migration.
c) Great Awakening.
d) Glory Days.
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10) According to the chart, what restriction did the Emergency Quota Act place on immigrants?
a) Only temporary visas would be granted to 3 percent of the total immigrant population.
b) Only 3 percent of total immigrant population could be admitted each year.
c) Only 3 percent of any ethnic group’s current population could be admitted each year.
d) Up to 150,000 but no more than 3 percent of immigrants could be Hispanic.
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11) "The Village was no prude. . . . [N]o matter what you did you could hardly be conspicuous. On
my street the middle-aged lady in knickers who aired her cat on a pink ribbon twice a day and
the rosy-cheeked damsel in overalls who split kindling wood on the side walk . . . were hardly
more conspicuous than the formal citizenry. To become conspicuous you would probably have
to shoot someone in the street."
—New York's Greenwich Village
What, according to the excerpt, would someone probably have to do to be conspicuous in
Greenwich Village?
a) shoot someone else
b) walk a cat on a ribbon
c) split kindling
d) wear overalls
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12) In the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B. Fall received bribes for
a) allowing private interests to drill for oil in a national park.
b) preventing federal prosecution of a member of the Ohio Gang.
c) promising immunity to businesses who overcharged the U.S. Navy.
d) allowing private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves.
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13) After entrepreneurs such as Glenn Curtiss started building practical aircraft, the federal
government
a) began to restrict commercial flights.
b) began to support the airline industry.
c) ordered a fleet of new warplanes.
d) restricted flying in urban areas.
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14) After World War I, most Americans wanted to avoid future wars by
a) avoiding involvement in world affairs.
b) excluding Germany from the League of
Nations.
c) disbanding the League of Nations.
d) forbidding Germany to rebuild its armed
forces.
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15) The purpose of the Volstead Act was to
a) limit immigration.
c) prohibit lynching.
b) ban the teaching of evolution.
d) enforce Prohibition.
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16) The golden age of Hollywood began in 1927 with the release of the first
a) full-length motion picture.
b) feature-length film.
c) “talking” motion picture.
d) animated film.
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17) The Cotton Club was a
a) Chicago speakeasy where gangsters, artists, and politicians congregated.
b) Harlem nightspot where many African American entertainers got their start.
c) Hollywood nightspot frequented by the stars of the silver screen.
d) fictitious nightclub featured in the famous picture The Jazz Singer.
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18) One of the NAACP's greatest political triumphs occurred in 1930 with the
a) signing of a law ending segregation in public schools.
b) signing of a law banning discrimination in federal jobs.
c) defeat of an allegedly racist judge nominated for the Supreme Court.
d) appointment of an African American to the Supreme Court.
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19) The Universal Negro Improvement Association was formed to
a) promote black pride and unity.
b) promote integration.
c) elect African Americans to Congress.
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d) protest the horrors of lynching.
20) "There are now more than 500 broadcasting stations. . . . The amateur listener is unfortunate,
indeed who cannot hear any one that he chooses among half a dozen, while the more patient or
skillful person can pick up one after another a score of stations."
—from The Radio Catches On
Why are amateur listeners less fortunate than skilled listeners?
a) They typically do not listen to more than six radio stations.
b) They get confused by the many radio stations available.
c) Their radios cannot receive signals from most radio stations.
d) There are only a few radio stations on the air.
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21) Calvin Coolidge became president when
a) he defeated Warren G. Harding.
c) Warren G. Harding was assassinated.
b) he defeated Robert La Follette.
d) Warren G. Harding died in office.
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22) Unions declined during the 1920s in part because many corporations instituted
a) cooperative individualism.
b) supply-side economics.
c) Sociological Departments.
d) welfare capitalism.
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23) An innovation instituted by International Harvester in 1926 was
a) a 5-day workweek.
b) mass production.
c) an annual 2-week paid vacation.
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d) an 8-hour workday.
24) According to the chart, all of the treaties dealt with what region of the world?
a) the Pacific
b) Europe
c) South America
d) the Atlantic
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25) Coolidge believed part of his job as president was to make sure the government
a) interfered with businesses and industry as little as possible.
b) regulated big business in order to stabilize the economy.
c) participated regularly in world affairs.
d) became involved in social reform.
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b
Bessie Smith
27)
d
Assembly Line
28)
a
Duke Ellington
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e
Reparations
30)
c
Langston Hughes
31)
g
Marcus Garvey
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f
Charles Lindbergh
a) composer, pianist, and bandleader whose
sound was a blend of improvisation and
orchestration
b) singer who seemed to symbolize soul
c) writer / poet who became a leading voice of
the African American experience during the
Harlem Renaissace
d) enormously increased manufacturing
efficiency
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e) payments Germany was required to make as
punishment for starting the war
f) pilot of the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
g) believed African Americans could gain
economic and political power by educating
themselves, as well as separating themselves
from whites
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33)
a
Bootlegging
a) illegal production and distribution of liquor
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e
Orville Wright
35)
b
Great Migration
b) created powerful African American voting
blocs in Northern cities
36)
f
Henry Ford
37)
c
Evolution
38)
d
Mass Media
39)
g
Welfare Capitalism
40)
h
Five-Party Naval Limitation Treaty
c) human beings developed from lower forms of
life
d) helped spread the new ideas and attitudes of
the 1920s
e) made the first crewed, powered flight in
history
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f) increased workers’ wages in 1914 to $5 per
day
g) a system in which companies allowed workers
profit sharing, medical care benefits, and
pensions
h) agreement to halt production on warships
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