Slang of the 1920s
If something is the bee s knees, it is...
Excellent
Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Ford made which affordable car?
Model T
Popular 1920s dance:
Charleston
Correct it: Yesterday I go to a jazz club
went
What did people call illegal alcohol during Prohibition?
Giggle Water
King of Jazz, famous trumpeter:
Louis Armstrong
What device brought jazz and news into homes?
Prohibition banned the sale of
alcohol
She ___ (buy) a flapper dress last week
bought
A jalopy is
an old car
U.S. president for most of the 1920s:
Calvin Coolidge
Talkies were
Talking movies
Secret bars during Prohibition were called:
speakeasies
Change to past: They are drinking giggle water
They were...
If something is hotsy-totsy, it is
Perfect
Famous baseball star of the 1920s:
Jackie Robinson
Which became common in homes during the 1920s
Refrigerator
Harlem Renaissance city:
New York
In 1925, women ___ the right to vote
got
A flapper was a young woman known for
Short hair, jazz, independence
First solo pilot to fly across the Atlantic (1927):
Messages often delivered by boys on bikes:
Telegrams
Nickname for the 1920s decade:
Roaring Twenties
By the time the police arrived, the gangsters ___ (leave).
had left