Roaring 20s Fact Sheet US History Name: Ms. Moskowitz

1. During the 1920s, controversies concerning the Scopes trial, national Prohibition, and the behavior of “flappers” were all signs of disagreement over traditional values and changing lifestyles.

2. A major goal of the immigration acts of the 1920s was to use quotas to limit

immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

3. Much of the economic growth of the 1920s was based on the production of new consumer goods.

4. Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington are noted for their contributions to the

cultural movement of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance.

5. The Red Scare, the National Origins Acts of the 1920s, and the verdict in the Sacco and Vanzetti trial are examples of negative American attitudes toward immigrants.

6. Improved mass-production techniques affected America’s economy of the 1920s by

reducing prices of consumer goods.

7. During the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, African American authors and artists used literature and art to celebrate the richness of their heritage.

8. American farmers generally failed to experience the economic prosperity of the

1920s.

9. The Scopes trial of 1925 illustrated the conflict between Protestant fundamentalism and science.