Sec 1 Changing Ways of Life
Sec 2 The Twenties Women
Sec 3 Education and Popular Culture
Sec 4 The Harlem Renaissance
Miscellanious
100
The era that prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
What is Prohibition
100
Young woman who embraced the new fashions and values of the 1920s
What is flapper
100
Charles A. Lindbergh was a famous...
What is pilot. He was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
100
The time of celebration of African-American culture in literature and art
What is the Harlem Renaissance
100
In what city is Harlem located?
What is New York City
200
Hidden saloons and nightclubs that illegally sold liquor
What is speakeasy
200
Stricter social and moral standards for women than for men in the 1920s
What is the double standard
200
Name the two magazines that originated in the 1920s that are still around today.
What is Time Magazine and Reader's Digest
200
Poet who wrote about the pain of prejudice and urged African Americans to resist discrimination.
Who is Claude McKay
200
In what city did Jazz music originate?
What is New Orleans, Louisiana
300
John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of...
What is evolution
300
Describe two ways women's fashions changed in the 1920s
What is shorter hair, skirts/dresses above the knee, heels, hats
300
Name a book or movie that was created in the 1920s
What is The Great Gatsby, Jazz Singer, Steamboat Willie, This Side of Paradise, Main Street, Babbitt
300
The most influential jazz musician of the 1920s
Who is Louis Armstrong
300
Smugglers who brought alcohol in from Canada and the Caribbean were known as...
What is bootleggers
400
Religious movement based on the belief that everything written in the Bible was literally true
What is Fundamentalism
400
Note two ways women's social behavior changed in the 1920s
What is smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol in public, dancing, marriage seen as an equal partnership
400
F. Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920s as the...
What is Jazz Age
400
A jazz pianist and one of the nation's greatest composers
Who is Duke Ellington
400
What does the NAACP acronym stand for?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
500
Why was Prohibition repealed?
Because it caused a general disrespect for the law which led to an increase in violence and organized crime.
500
Describe one change in women's roles in the workplace
What is moved back into "women's professions" such as teaching, nursing, social work, secretaries. Also, they earned less money than men.
500
Describe one of the changes in education that took place in the 1920s
What is increase in students, vocational training and home economics, increase in non-English speaking immigrants, increase in cost and spending
500
Describe two reasons African Americans left the rural South for Northern cities.
What is to escape racial discrimination, employment opportunities, affordable housing, economic discrimination.
500
The movement of African Americans from the South to the big cities of the North was known as...
What is the Great Migration
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