Boom Brings Change
Challenges in the 1920s
Entertainment and the Arts
Vocabulary
Random
100
What other industry grew because of the increase in automobile sales in the 1920's?
What is service stations
100
Who did not benefit from the economic boom of the 1920's?
Who are farmers
100
What was the greatest influence on entertainment and the arts during the 1920's
What is the radio
100
Products made for personal use
What is consumer goods
100
Spanky McFarland played in what popular show from the 1920's? (hint: not the Little Rascals, before then)
What is Our Gang
200
Whose flight from New York to Paris, France, in 1927 persuaded people that airplane travel could be important?
Who is Charles Lindbergh
200
The first skyscrapers were built in what city?
What is Chicago, Illinois
200
What African American became a famous writer during the Harlem Renaissance?
Who is Langston Hughes
200
Production by machines
What is mechanization
200
What is the popular dance from the 1920's, that involved fast steps and high kicks?
What is the Charleston
300
What change in the 1920's caused cities to expand outward?
What is more automobiles
300
What was the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and why was it repealed?
What is this outlawed he producton, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. It was repealed because it was unfair and it was not effective.
300
Who wrote the famous book "The Great Gatsby?"
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
300
Making monthly payments until the full price has been paid
What is installment buying
300
What team did George Herman "Babe Ruth" set the home run record with by hitting 60 homeruns?
Who are the Yankees
400
Why were more people able to own automobiles, radios, washing machines, and other goods in the 1920's?
What is installment buying
400
Why did many Americans oppose immigrants in the 1920's?
What is Americans worried that immigrants would take their jobs or that they would spread communism in the U.S.
400
Name a sports star, writer, and a musician from the 1920's.
What is Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, George and Ira Gershwin, and Aaron Copland
400
Movment of people to cities
What is urbanization
400
Name the 2 amendments that have to do with Prohibition.
What is the 18th and 21st amendment
500
How were advertisements in the 1920's different from advertisments in earlier time?
What is Ads from the 1920's said little about how well a product was made. They focused on how someone would feel if he used the product.
500
What changes took place in agriculture after WWI and how were farmers affected?
What is crop prices dropped and farmers had to sell and look for new jobs
500
Where is Harlem and why was it important to the culture of the 1920's
What is it is a neighborhood in New York City. African American culture grew and was heard and appreciated here.
500
Time of much interest and activity in the arts
What is renaissance
500
Who is King Louie from Disney's The Jungle Book supposed to sound like?
Who is Louis Armstrong
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