Flappers
Technology of the 1920s
Music, Dance and Literature of the 1920s
Social Problems of the 1920s
Vocabulary from the 1920s
100

The shape of their haircut

Bobbed hair

100
Charles Lindbergh was lucky to have made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in this piece of transportation.
What is the airplane?
100
The popular dance craze of the 1920s?
What is the Charleston?
100
Women protested strongly for the right to vote and as a result this women's suffrage amendment passed.
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
People who made and sold illegal alcohol.
Who are bootleggers?
200

The morals of their grandparents and parents were very strict, what was their era?

The Victorian era

200
The first Model T or "Tin Lizzie" came out in this color.
What is black?
200
He was big jazz composer for big bands.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
200
During prohibition, people would go to these hidden places for fun and drink liquor.
What are speakeasies?
200
Because of this crash in 1929, the Roaring Twenties came to an abrupt end.
What is the Stock Market?
300

A party where boys and girls could start kissing ... ?

Petting parties !

300
Lots of people sat around to listen to this piece of technology for entertainment.
What is the radio?
300
He was the composer who wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" which included jazz, classical, and blues music.
Who is George Gershwin?
300
During the "Red Scare" people were afraid that this form of government from Russia would spread throughout the United States.
What is Communism?
300
These are new communities built outside major cities that grew rapidly in the 1920s.
What are suburbs?
400

Name 2 things the flappers did that was shocking ...

Driving cars, riding bikes, smoking, drinking, wear short dresses ...

400
These started to become electric, but some still needed ice to keep cool.
What is the refrigerator?
400

Langston Hughes is the writer and poet who wrote about this movement and about African American dreams, disappointments, and discrimination. The movement was ...

 the Harlem Renaissance

400
This group wanted the people in the United States to be white, Protestant, and native born.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
Comedy and jazz songs that were made up as they went along.
What is improvised?
500

The wife of this famous author was the ultimate flapper .... her name was...

Zelda Fitzgerald !

500
This was the fastest speed that the Model T could travel during the 1920s.
What is 40 mph?
500
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this novel which showed the unhappy life of a wealth, popular man who was once a poor farm boy.
What is The Great Gatsby?
500
Two amendments to the U.S. Constitution: The first amendment put a ban on making, selling, and drinking alcohol; and the second amendment repealed the first.
What are the 18th and the 21st Amendments?
500

What does the bees knees mean?

To be excellent !

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