Roaring Twenties Vocab - Jake Cotner Question Preview (ID: 44383)


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Laissez-Faire was the practice of what?
a) The government working within big businesses.
b) Minor judicial laws imposed on big business.
c) Breaking trusts done by big businesses.
d) The practice of Government staying out of big business.

What made travel easier?
a) Railroads and Trains
b) Cars and Better quality roads.
c) Nothing
d) Easy work

What is Lynching?
a) The killing of a corrupt man who escaped justice.
b) A police hunt for an escaped criminal.
c) The hanging of an innocent (and often times black) person for an alleged offense.
d) A term for a Firing Squad.

What is Consumerism?
a) An increase buying of products.
b) A purchase that goes to everyone.
c) Easy work done for food and shelter.
d) A political system where everyone gains an equal pay.

Who Influenced Jazz?
a) Anglo Saxons
b) African American
c) Chinese American
d) Other Immigrant Groups

What created the Mob Families?
a) The Start of Inhibition
b) Lack of police patrols and poor economy.
c) Easy work and easy money.
d) All of the Above

What is a Flapper?
a) Someone who frequents corners in order to pick up dates.
b) A criminal informant under the guise of a dame.
c) A woman who would see how far she could push out, often independent and free.
d) Callsign for female espionage agents in World War I

Migration means...
a) The movement from one area to another, usually done by a group of people or animals.
b) Where people move from one country to another, often for personal or economic reasons.
c) Shares being moved from another bank.
d) Something to do with movement of peoples and goods.

What is the definition of 'Prosperity'?
a) Views that favor native born people.
b) Well off, or a state of being that means well off
c) Changed daily lives, and increased a national economy
d) A condition meaning calm.

What is Communism?
a) A system where everyone gets an equal amount.
b) A system where all the power goes to one person.
c) A system where an official is elected with most powers.
d) A system where an official works with a council of the public's choosing.

What was the Red Scare?
a) A horror novel written in 1916 by a French Soldier.
b) A mediocre horror movie in 1930.
c) An atmosphere of panic focused on Communism.
d) A case of mass hysteria where people feared the color red and anyone wearing red.

What was the Return to Normalcy?
a) A policy that returned America back to how it was before WWI.
b) A somewhat obscure play written during the First World War.
c) A book written by an unknown author, calling for change in America.
d) A minor movement at the time that faded into obscurity, not really known.

What is the Stock Market?
a) A large, public bank.
b) A place where shares are bought and sold in public, also known as Wall Street.
c) A market business started by Joseph Stock
d) Nothing at all.

What did Henry Ford's Assembly Line do for the Industry?
a) Fund a large group of musicians.
b) An industry on weapons boomed.
c) Nothing really happened.
d) Make business much more profitable, and decrease production time.

What did the Harlem Renaissance contribute to history?
a) Cultural and Social Advancement.
b) Minor breakthroughs in science.
c) Historical Preservation.
d) Artistic Expression.

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