US History Unit Quizzes

The 1920s Quiz

Test your knowledge of the Roaring Twenties with this 1920s history quiz. Explore America’s economic boom, consumer culture, women’s suffrage, and the rise of mass media. These US history questions also cover Prohibition, the Harlem Renaissance, jazz music, the Red Scare, and the social and cultural changes that defined the 1920s.

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US History Unit Quizzes

US History Unit Quizzes

The 1920s Quiz

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1. Question

What effect did the Bolshevik Revolution have on the American people?

2. Question

What was the overwhelming public reaction to the steelworker strike and others like it that were occurring across America in 1919?

3. Question

Which of the following best describes the actions taken by Marcus Garvey in the 1920s to help combat a growing racial unrest in the United States?

4. Question

Which of the following best describes the Warren G. Harding presidency?

5. Question

What was the significance of the Five-Power Treaty signed by America, Japan, Britain, France, and Italy in 1922?

6. Question

What was the primary weakness of the Kellogg-Briand Pact which would eventually be signed by 62 nations?

7. Question

How did the increased availability of electricity affect American industry in the 1920s?

8. Question

Which of the following is the best example demonstrating the growth of the American consumer economy in the 1920s?

9. Question

What impact did the automobile have on the American economy?

10. Question

Which of the following offers the best summary of the American economy during the 1920s?

11. Question

What did the Nineteenth Amendment add to the United States Constitution?

12. Question

What was the common term used to describe the “liberated women” of the 1920s who famously wore bobbed haircuts and more flamboyant and revealing clothing?

13. Question

What effect did mass media have upon American society?

14. Question

What was the name given to the boom in African American cultural creativity that emerged from New York City in the 1920s?

15. Question

Which improvisational musical art form emerged in the 1920s as a unique mix of blues and southern ragtime?

16. Question

Which of the following was a negative consequence of the Eighteenth Amendment’s prohibition of alcohol?

17. Question

What was the unifying theme linking the writers of “the lost generation”?

18. Question

Which of the following would be considered an indication of the rising sense of American nativism that took place in the 1920s:

19. Question

What was the main issue at the heart of the 1925 Scopes trial?

20. Question

What was significant about Alfred E. Smith, the losing candidate in the election of 1928?