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Chapter 24: The Jazz Age
      
  1.The Red Scare was caused by a fear of __________.  
  a.   communism  
  b.   evolution  
  c.   alcohol  
  d.   flappers  
      
  2.As governor of Massachusetts, Calvin Coolidge took a strong stand against the strike brought on by __________.  
  a.   textile workers  
  b.   firefighters  
  c.   police officers  
  d.   steel workers  
      
  3.The “back-to-Africa” movement was led by __________  
  a.   A. Philip Randolph  
  b.   Nicola Sacco  
  c.   Felix Frankfurter  
  d.   Marcus Garvey  
      
  4.Albert Fall was involved in the __________ scandal.  
  a.   Pumpjack  
  b.   Teapot Dome  
  c.   Iran-Contra  
  d.   Veterans Bureau  
      
  5.Calvin Coolidge said that “the chief business of the American people is __________.”  
  a.   peace  
  b.   business  
  c.   the pursuit of happiness  
  d.   reform  
      
  6.Henry Ford was the first to introduce __________ into manufacturing.  
  a.   steam power  
  b.   computer technology  
  c.   safety standards  
  d.   the assembly line  
      
  7.The automobile manufacturing center of the world was __________.  
  a.   Pittsburgh  
  b.   Detroit  
  c.   Chicago  
  d.   Rochester  
      
  8.The first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was __________.  
  a.   Charles Lindbergh  
  b.   Amelia Earhart  
  c.   Howard Hughes  
  d.   James Doolittle  
      
  9.One of the most famous writers of the Harlem Renaissance was __________.  
  a.   F. Scott Fitzgerald  
  b.   Duke Ellington  
  c.   Langston Hughes  
  d.   Ernest Hemingway  
      
  10.The __________ Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor.  
  a.   Seventeenth  
  b.   Eighteenth  
  c.   Nineteenth  
  d.   Twentieth  

 






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