Business Boom
Women in the 20's
The Harlem Renaissance
Popular Culture in the 20's
Religious Movements and Criminal Activities
100
This invention was said to have changed the American landscape than any other.
What is the automobile? (Also acceptable: the car)
100
These rebellious women rejected traditional values in order to be a part of the fun-loving atmosphere of the 1920's.
What are flappers?
100
Daily Double This historic event took place during World War I, increasing the number of African Americans in northern cities and setting the stage for the Harlem Renaissance.
What is The Great Migration?
100
This professional sports league gained recognition during the twenties especially in major cities like New York, Boston and Chicago.
What is Major League Baseball (Also acceptable: The MLB or the Negro Leagues)
100
Alcohol was banned with the passage of this amendment.
What is the 18th amendment?
200
With the emergence of department stores and businesses, many people moved from rural towns and southern farms to settle here.
What are cities? (Also Acceptable: Urban areas)
200
Daily Double She was the first woman to fly nonstop across the Atlantic ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
200
W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson and other notable African American political voices and prominent figures helped establish this organization during the 1920's.
What is the N.A.A.C.P.?
200
Steamboat Willie and other motion pictures were especially popular among people in the 1920's and 1930's for this reason.
What is an escape from the stresses and pressures of life?
200
These criminals emerged after alcohol became illegal to consume, produce or sell.
What are bootleggers?
300
Daily Double: Businesses thrived so much in the 1920's that many small stores grew into these.
What are chains?
300
These were considered stereotypical jobs for women.
What is teaching, nursing, and secretarial work?
300
This Jamaican immigrant, political figure and gifted orater went on to champion the "Back to Africa" Movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
300
Rising literacy rates resulted in the growth of these forms of media.
What are newspapers, books, comic books and magazines?
300
One of the most famous criminals during the twenties, he created a bootlegging empire in Chicago.
Who is Al Capone?
400
The growth in business and wages allowed for this to increase.
What are leisure activities?
400
Although women pursued many different types of jobs and activities, this was the major complaint many women had.
What is inferior wages and job opportunities to men? (Also acceptable: lack of comparable wages to men, and limited job opportunities)
400
Jazz and scat music were promoted by nightclubs like this very prominent and famous one in Harlem.
What is the Cotton Club?
400
This form of mass media instantly became the most recognized and powerful form of communication, news, and entertainment.
What is the radio?
400
Daily Double: This organization was responsible for advocating the move to pass prohibition.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union (Also acceptable: The Temperance Movement)
500
Prominent figures such as Charles Lindbergh helped the development of this industry.
What is cargo and commercial airlines (Also acceptable: the airline industry)
500
This was a major cause of the declining birthrates in the 1920's.
What is higher employment rates for women?
500
Writers like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Claude McKay powered the Harlem Renaissance by doing this.
What is writing poems, plays and novels discussing the problems blacks faced in urban ghettos?
500
Daily Double Authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were not among the people who enjoyed the Roaring Twenties because of the rebelliousness and pleasure-seeking attitudes. Gertrude Stein would later give the authors this name.
What is "The Lost Generation?"
500
Christian fundamentalists were opposed to the teaching of this reknowned theory.
What is Darwin's Theory of Evolution?
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