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The Roaring Twenties Review Sheet
The following questions are designed to help you prepare for the test on Chapter 22. Answer
each of the following questions in complete sentences. Give as much detail as possible.
1. What was the U.S. policy in world affairs according to both Presidents Harding and
Coolidge? (Check page 738 in textbook and notes)
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2. How did farmers do after World War I? What happened that caused problems? (Check
page 754 and notes)
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3. What were the two fears that Americans had during the 1920s? Why were they afraid?
Explain. (Check pages 739-740, and notes)
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4. What was President Coolidge's belief in prosperity for all Americans? What did he
promise the American people? Explain (check page 736-737 in textbook and notes.)
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5. How did the automobile lead to the economic growth in America? Name and explain two
different ways that the automobile impacted the United States. (page 743 and handout
on the automobile)
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6. How did people make money on the stock market during the 1920’s? What is buying on
the margin? Explain it. (check page 753 and notes)
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7. Describe how life for women during the 1920s changed. Give three reasons why their
lives were changed. What is the definition of a “flapper”? (Check pages 742-743 and the
packet on “Women's Changing Behavior”)
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8. What were the two Constitutional Amendments passed during the 1920s? Explain what
each one did. (check page 742 and notes.)
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9. What was a talkie? Name the movie that first had a "talkie.” (check page 744)
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10. Name five heroes of the 1920s and explain what each one did. (check pages 746-747
and notes)
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11. What was prohibition and why was it a failure? Give three different reasons. (check
page741-742 and notes)
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12. List five (5) new inventions that helped change life in the 1920s and explain how they
made life easier. (page 743 and 752 along with notes)
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13. Why did African Americans migrate from the South to the North in large droves? Give
two different reasons and explain each. (check page 744-745 in textbook along with
handout “The Black Migration.”)
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14. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal? Who was involved? (check page 737 in textbook
and the notes.)
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15. What is the definition of a fad? Name three different fads of the 1920s. (check page 746
and the notes)
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16. Which two groups of Americans did not benefit from the economic boom of the 1920s?
Why not? Explain. (check page 754 in textbook)
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17. Who were Sacco and Vanzetti? Give supporting details of the case. (check page 739 and
the notes)
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18. What was the Scopes Trial about? What did it symbolize? What was Charles Darwin’s
theory? (check page 744 and the notes)
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19. What was the Harlem Renaissance? Name two different people associated with the
Harlem Renaissance and each did. (check page 750 in textbook and notes)
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