The Roaring 20s
Q: After which major war did Americans look forward to peace and prosperity?
Answer: World War I
Q: Which inventor's work with electricity helped bring electricity into more homes?
Answer: Thomas Edison
Q: What was another name for the 1920s that reflected advances in flying?
Answer: The Air Age
Q: What important political right did women gain at the beginning of the 1920s?
Answer: The right to vote
Q: What was the name of the movement in which nearly 2 million African Americans moved North between 1910 and 1930?
Answer: The Great Migration
Q: What was the name of the U.S. policy of staying out of other countries' problems?
Answer: Isolationism
Q: Which automobile did Henry Ford mass-produce using an assembly line?
Answer: The Model T
Q: Which famous pilot made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927?
Answer: Charles Lindbergh
Q: What was the name for a fashionable young woman of the 1920s who often wore short dresses and bobbed hair?
Answer: A flapper
Q: What shortage during World War I created more jobs in Northern factories?
Answer: A labor shortage because many men went to fight in the war.
Q: What financial activity became more popular as Americans began investing their money during the 1920s?
Answer: Investing in the stock market
Q: What is the main reason cars became more affordable during the 1920s?
Answer: Mass production made it possible to produce large numbers of cars more efficiently.
Q: What was one major benefit of department stores for shoppers?
Answer: They allowed people to shop for different goods in one place.
Q: By the end of the 1920s, approximately what fraction of the workforce was made up of women?
Answer: Nearly one-fourth (1/4)
Q: Give TWO reasons African Americans moved from the South to the North.
Answer: To find better economic opportunities and to escape racism, poverty, and racial violence in the South.
Q: What does it mean to buy something on credit?
Answer: Borrow money to purchase an item and pay the money back over time with interest.
Q: Name TWO materials that became more in demand as automobile production increased.
Answers: Steel, oil, and rubber
Q: What famous female pilot made flights across the Atlantic during the 1920s?
Answer: Amelia Earhart
Q: Identify TWO ways women's lives changed during the 1920s.
Answer: Women gained the right to vote, took more jobs outside the home, and benefited from housework becoming easier through new technology.
Q: Why did some African Americans feel that moving North did not completely solve the problems they faced in the South?
Answer: They still experienced discrimination and segregation, including hidden forms of racism, even without Jim Crow laws in the North.
Q: Why was the decade called the "Roaring 20s"? Give TWO reasons.
Answer: It was a time of optimism, fun, and increased freedom.
Q: Explain how new electrical inventions changed daily life for American families.
Answer: Inventions such as washing machines, vacuum cleaners, toasters, and electric fans made household tasks easier, saved time, and allowed more time for leisure activities.
Q: How did the rise in average income and shorter workweeks help change American life?
Answer: With more income and less time spent working, Americans had more opportunities for leisure, entertainment, and enjoying new goods.
Q: Explain how new household technology may have helped women spend more time working outside the home.
Answer: New technology made housework easier and faster, giving women more time and opportunities for activities and jobs outside the home.
Q: What was the Harlem Renaissance, and what did artists hope to express through their work?
Answer: It was a period of creativity in writing, art, and music. Artists explored what it meant to be Black in America and expressed their desire for equality.