The Roaring Twenties Benchmark

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The Roaring Twenties Benchmark

Last updated about 2 months ago

29 questions

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Select all responses that describe the poem cited above.

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Select all responses that describe the chart cited above.

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Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above

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Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above

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What was the primary purpose of Prohibition during the 1920s?

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What important constitutional change marked the beginning of Prohibition?

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What were 'speakeasies' during the Prohibition era?

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What was the main motivation behind KKK activities in the 1920s?

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The KKK of the 1920's targeted which groups?

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What tactics did the KKK use to intimidate those they targeted in the 1920s?

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What new forms of popular entertainment emerged during the Roaring Twenties?

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Which of the following concepts refers to the 1920s' cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York?

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What changes occurred in women's roles and lifestyle choices during the Roaring Twenties?

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What was the primary industry where Henry Ford applied his assembly line concept?

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What major social and economic change was facilitated by Henry Ford's assembly line concept?

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What is Charles Lindberg best known for?

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What was the name of Lindberg's airplane?

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What major event did Lindberg's flight influence?

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What was the Harlem Renaissance a response to?

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The Harlem Renaissance was associated with which artistic developments?

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What prompted the Palmer Raids during the Roaring Twenties?

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What was the Teapot Dome Scandal about?

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Select all responses that describe the illustration cited above.

Select responses that identify the four main functions of lynching.

"Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Lee Stewart had been lynched in Memphis, one of the leading cities of the South, in which no lynching had taken place before, with just as much brutality as other victims of the mob; and they had committed no crime against white women. This is what opened my eyes to what lynching really was. An excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized and keep the down.”
quoted from Crusade For Justice (periodical)

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above.

Select all responses that describe the poem cited above.

Select all responses that describe the chart cited above.

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above

What was the primary purpose of Prohibition during the 1920s?

What important constitutional change marked the beginning of Prohibition?

What were 'speakeasies' during the Prohibition era?

What was the main motivation behind KKK activities in the 1920s?

The KKK of the 1920's targeted which groups?

What tactics did the KKK use to intimidate those they targeted in the 1920s?

What new forms of popular entertainment emerged during the Roaring Twenties?

Which of the following concepts refers to the 1920s' cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York?

What changes occurred in women's roles and lifestyle choices during the Roaring Twenties?

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above

What was the primary industry where Henry Ford applied his assembly line concept?

What major social and economic change was facilitated by Henry Ford's assembly line concept?

What is Charles Lindberg best known for?

What was the name of Lindberg's airplane?

What major event did Lindberg's flight influence?

What was the Harlem Renaissance a response to?

The Harlem Renaissance was associated with which artistic developments?

What prompted the Palmer Raids during the Roaring Twenties?

What was the Teapot Dome Scandal about?

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above. 

Factories stop producing weapons for war and started producing consumer goods

The public wanted to concentrate on domestic economic issues 

Warren Harding was an advocate of imperialism 

A transition from a war time economy to a peace time economy

Return to Normalcy 

Help the country recover from the turmoil of the previous decade 

Immigration restriction such as the Chinese Exclusion Act 

1918-1920

A classic example of Nativism 

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above. 

Henry Ford's use of an assembly line 

Cottage type industries during the 18th century 

Increased productivity and efficiency 

Upton Sinclair describing conditions at a meat packing plant 

A manufacturing process that increases production while lowering cost 

Mass production of cars  made them affordable to more people 

Advocates of prohibition and woman's suffrage 

The effects of the sixteenth amendment 

An example of the growing political influence of women 

Progressive Era goals 

Organization that advocated for passage of the  Organic Act 

Organization that advocated for passage of the  eighteenth amendment 

Select all responses that describe the illustration cited above. 

Protection afforded under the Fifth amendment 

In part the result of the nineteenth amedment 

An example of non-conformity 

Advertising in the 1920's

The result of prohibition of alcohol 

In part the result of women working outside the home during World War I 

Women rejecting traditional restrictions 

Protections afforded under the First Amendment (Freedom of expression) 

Women challenging traditional attitudes and social norms  

Select responses that identify the four main functions of lynching. 

To eliminate economic, social and political competitors 

As state sanction terrorism to intimidate and control the black population 

To remove specific people accused of crimes without the benefit of due process 

Propagating a belief in white superiority 

The  results of nativism 

A form of punishment allowed under the eighth amendment  

"Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Lee Stewart had been lynched in Memphis, one of the leading cities of the South, in which no lynching had taken place before, with just as much brutality as other victims of the mob; and they had committed no crime against white women. This is what opened my eyes to what lynching really was. An excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized and keep the down.” 
                                                                                                                  quoted from Crusade For Justice (periodical) 

Select all responses that describe the excerpt cited above. 

Mob justice denied Americans of African descent the 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th amendments to U.S. Constitution

Through her newspaper Ida B. Wells shed light on the denial of individual rights to Americans of African descent. 

An example of the protections recognized in the First Amendment  

Protest literature protected by first amendment  

A poem by Langston Hughes 

An example of realism in art 

A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Nativist immigration policies 

He was convicted based on nativist attitudes. 

He was convicted fairly and his individual rights were respected 

A conflation of nativist attitudes and a fear of communism led to many innocent  immigrants  to be convicted without sufficient evidence 

He was convicted for being labeled a communist at the height of the Red Scare 

Led to mistrust of elected officials 

Victorian etiquette

Increased employment

Increased political participation 

Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above

Diffusion of American Culture throughout the world 

Baseball in Japan  

Hip hop Music in Mexico 

U.S.  embassies 

Result of Anti- trust legislation 

Jazz music in Paris, France 

Oil reserves

Prohibition

Public mistrust in government increased