Quiz Me! - Era: Roaring 20's Test your knowledge about the Roaring 20's! 1 / 10 Which place in New York City attracted vaudeville musicians, actors, and dancers who hoped to audition and sell their acts and music? Apollo Club The Cotton Club Tin Pan Alley Hip Hop Alley 2 / 10 The writings and speeches of this early civil rights advocate influenced both Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr who believed he modeled pride and dignity in the African American community. W.E.B. DuBois Frederick Douglass Marcus Garvey John Lewis 3 / 10 Which entrepreneur was responsible for the revolutionary improvements above? Alexander Graham Bell John D Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford 4 / 10 What happened as a result of Russia’s withdrawal from World War I? Germany stopped using their unrestricted submarine warfare strategy. The Americans immediately entered the war on the side of the Allies. Germany only had to fight the war on one front. The U.S. supported the new Soviet government. 5 / 10 What is the best description of Teapot Dome?. The site of the famous Harlem jazz club emerged after Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong played there The site of oil leases given to companies in return for bribes to government officials The site of a new discovery of gold in Wyoming that kicked off a gold rush in the Black Hills The site the Rough Riders won under the command of Theodore Roosevelt 6 / 10 Why was the Scopes Trial significant? It pitted traditional values against modern science. It caused the defendant to lose his job. It prohibited deportation of immigrants. It sent Harding’s Cabinet members to prison. 7 / 10 Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Flying Cross in the United States, this aviator was also later awarded a German Medal of Honor in 1938 which was criticized by many Nazi critics in America. Alfred Thayer Mahan Orville Wright Charles A. Lindbergh Glenn Curtiss 8 / 10 Which of the following are associated with the development of American Jazz? Tennessee, John Scopes, Clarence Darrow The Cotton Club, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong Tin Pan Alley, Nicola Sacco, Mitchell Palmer Chicago, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois 9 / 10 Which best completes the outline above? The Tin Pan Alley Movement 1950s and the Beatnik Movement America’s Great Artist Community 1920s and the Harlem Renaissance 10 / 10 Which best represents the nativist tensions that existed in the United States in the 1920s? Sacco and Vanzetti Trial Schenck v. U.S. Plessy v. Ferguson Scopes Trial Your score is Try another 10!
