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- 1. Multiple Choice
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Explosion of black culture in New York City.
Explosion of culture in the Middle Ages.
Result of the Dust Bowl.
Law to help African Americans.
- 2. Multiple Choice
The literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Explored the origins of jazz
Explored the pains and joys of being black in America
Is largely forgotten today
Argued for the separation of races
- 3. Multiple Choice
The 1920s are sometimes called the “Roaring Twenties” because
Foreign trade prospered after World War I
The United States assumed a leadership role in world affairs
Political reforms made government more democratic
Widespread social and economic change occurred
- 4. Multiple Choice
What caused the Great Migration of African Americans to Northern Cities in the 1900's?
Change in climate and the emergence of the Green Movement
The Dust Bowl and California Gold Rush.
Southern oppression and economic opportunity.
Mexican immigration and European exportation.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which statement best describes economic trends in the United States during the 1920s?
Americans eagerly purchased millions of consumer goods.
Americans reluctantly conserved products by rationing.
Americans preferred to buy products made overseas.
Americans ignored all but the most necessary goods.
- 6. Multiple Choice
The sense of group identity created by the Harlem Renaissance
Formed a basis for later progress for blacks in America
Was lost by the end of the 1920s
Enabled African Americans to form their own nation
Ended discrimination against blacks in America
- 7. Multiple Choice
What was a major result of Prohibition in the United States during the 1920s?
Restriction of immigration
Growth of communism
Destruction of family values
Increase in organized crime
- 8. Multiple Choice
The movement of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north was called what?
The Long Walk North
The Great Migration
The Harlem Renaissance
The Temperance Movement
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which change resulted from the Great Migration?
New immigrants had an easier time assimilating into American society
Artists who lived in the South began to show strong Northern influences
African American cultural influences spread into the mainstream culture
Northern cities began to industrialize at an increasingly rapid pace
- 10. Multiple Choice
What was one effect of the Harlem Renaissance?
It started the Great Migration
It helped popularize jazz music
It created a large black middle class
It trained leaders of the civil rights movement
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of the following were influential poets of the Harlem Renaissance?
Aaron Douglas and Augusta Savage
Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith
Booker T. Washington and Alain Locke
Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen
- 12. Multiple Choice
Publications such as Alain Locke’s The New Negro and the NAACP’s The Crisis shared the goal of
Teaching technical skills to African Americans who wanted a better education
Proving that race is determined by biology rather than by culture or education
Convincing African Americans to form their own nation distinct from white Americans
Promoting the works of important African American thinkers and artists
- 13. Multiple Choice
What was an effect of the Scopes Trial of 1925?
It led to a wave of lawsuits against public institutions
It popularized the debate between religion and science
It led to a ban on the teaching of evolution in American schools
It showed religious belief and church attendance in the United States
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which statement best describes the role the advertising industry played in the consumerism of the 1920s?
Advertisements guided government regulators in warning consumers of fraudulent practices.
Advertisements helped consumers identify which new products they wanted to buy.
Advertisements paid for at discounted rates gave consumers a share of a company’s profits.
Advertisements reflected the alienation felt by consumers in the postwar society.
- 15. Multiple Choice
The nickname “Jazz Age” is evidence of which of the following?
The American middle class became substantially less segregated by race during the 1920s.
Inexpensive automobiles produced by assembly lines allowed large numbers of Americans to travel the country.
The electric radio was crucial to the popularization of spectator sports, such as baseball, in the United States.
African American music artists influenced mainstream American culture during the 1920s.
- 16. Multiple Choice
In contrast to US President Woodrow Wilson, who hoped for “peace without victory,” British and French leaders
Pushed to benefit their countries at the expense of the Central Powers
Pushed the United States to become an international peacekeeper
Urged their troops to continue fighting in the hopes of expanding French borders into Germany
Urged the Austro-Hungarians to become the main negotiators from the Central Powers
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which statement best describes a demographic change that took place in the United States during World War I?
German Americans were forced into labor camps
Laws were passed restricting US immigration from Mexico
The number of women in the US workforce decreased
African Americans moved to Northern cities in great numbers
- 18. Multiple Choice
President Wilson’s Fourteen Points were based on his belief that
Nations should pursue their own self-interests in a world full of power imbalances
Any nation judged responsible for starting a war should be severely punished
Civilized nation have a responsibility to spread their cultures around the world
A nation should have the right to peacefully determine its own affairs.
- 19. Multiple Choice
What was the Zimmermann Note?
The German policy attacking all ships entering or leaving Great Britain
Wilson’s speech detailing reasons why the United States should remain neutral
A note left behind by a suicide bomber in Serbia
A proposal by a German official that Mexico attack the United States in return for territory
- 20. Multiple Choice
What was the immediate result of trench warfare?
An easy victory for the Allied Powers
Massive deadlock
Fewer casualties on both sides
An easy victory for the Central Powers
- 21. Multiple Choice
What constituted the policy of “unrestricted submarine warfare?”
Attacking warships without warning
Attacking warships if attacked first vessels without warning
Attacking any and all shipping without warning
Attacking enemy combatant surface vessels without warning
- 22. Multiple Choice
What basic idea did both Britain and France share after they had won World War I?
Italy should give up its colonies in Africa
Germany should be divided and occupied the Allied forces
Germany military power should be permanently reduced
The Central Powers should divide the cost of the war equally
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