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History Unit 7 Unit Assessment
Test Description: History Unity Assessment
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1) Radio was popular during the 1920s. Which became a popular new form of entertainment in America during the 1920s?
A
television
B
radio
C
dance halls
D
quilting bees
2) Suffragist campaigned for women's rights. Which term describes a person who campaigned for women's right to vote?
A
suffragist
B
temperance lass
C
prohibitionist
D
flapper
3) The 19th Amendment guarantees women the right to vote. Which civil right does the 19th Amendment guarantee?
A
The sale of alcohol cannot be banned.
B
Public education must be free for all citizens.
C
Former slaves are permitted to own land.
D
Women cannot be denied the right to vote.
4) People thought Sacco-Vanzetti didn't believe in government and were anarchists. There were charged with a crime and convicted. Which statement about the Sacco-Vanzetti trial of 1921 is true?
A
The evidence clearly and unmistakably proved they were guilty of robbery and murder.
B
Many people believed they were convicted solely because they were anarchists.
C
Most Americans were glad to see them deported to Italy after their trial.
D
They were acquitted by a jury but afterwards taken from the jail by an angry mob and lynched.
5) President Coolidge believed in minding his own business. Which quotation accurately describes Calvin Coolidge's philosophy against active government?
A
…in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
B
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
C
“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
D
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.
6) Women had many changes during the 1920's.
A
Per capita consumption of alcohol increased under Prohibition.
B
Jim Crow laws throughout the South were overturned by state courts.
C
Women wore shorter skirts and hairstyles and gained more independence.
D
People were too shocked by the cost of World War I to engage in leisure-time activities.
7) Crime and violence increased during prohibition.
A
Which best describes one unexpected and harmful result of Prohibition?
B
It led to increased smoking among young men and women.
C
It led to organized crime and violence.
D
It resulted in widespread unemployment.
8) Blacks didn't own more farms. During the 1920s more than a million blacks moved from the South to cities in the North. Which was not a result of that migration?
A
New York's black population increased by 66 percent.
B
Langston Hughes and other black poets became well known.
C
More blacks owned farms than at any earlier time in U.S. history.
D
Chicago's black population increased by 50 percent.
9) President Harding created the Bureau of Budget.Which president created the Bureau of the Budget, reduced the national debt, cut taxes, and appointed black men to public office?
A
Calvin Coolidge
B
Herbert Hoover
C
Woodrow Wilson
D
Warren G. Harding
10) Al Smith was Catholic. Which candidate in the 1928 presidential election was attacked for being Catholic?
A
Warren Harding
B
Calvin Coolidge
C
Al Smith
D
Herbert Hoover
11) Hoover used many slogans. Which president used the campaign slogan, A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, to indicate that life would be prosperous in the United States during his administration?
A
Calvin Coolidge
B
Woodrow Wilson
C
Herbert Hoover
D
Warren Harding
12) Moving north improved life for many blacks. Which statement about the black migration of the 1920s is true?
A
Many blacks, finding segregation and a lack of jobs in the North, returned to the rural South.
B
Blacks who moved to northern cities were welcomed into integrated communities by their white neighbors.
C
To escape discrimination, more than half a million American blacks immigrated to Liberia in West Africa.
D
Moving north offered blacks improved living and working prospects and the opportunity to vote.
13) Many people were detained. Which statement describes the U.S. government's reaction to the establishment of a communist state in Russia?
A
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan went to Moscow to sign a treaty of friendship with Russia.
B
President Woodrow Wilson sent arms to help support the new communist regime.
C
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer used Americans' fear of communism to detain nearly 5,000 people.
D
Vice President Thomas R. Marshall wanted to take advantage of the chaos in Russia to invade Siberia.
14) Mr. Scopes was a science teacher. Which famous 1925 trial pitted creationists against evolutionists?
A
the Scottsboro Boys trial
B
the Sacco-Vanzetti trial
C
the Leopold and Loeb trial
D
the Scopes trial
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