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The Roaring 20's
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Anything Goes!
100
A volunteer organization founded in 1920 to inform people about politics.
What is League of Women Voters?
100
This invention made it easier for Americans to travel and brought people closer together.
What is the automobile?
100
A woman who expressed her freedom by wearing short skirts and hair, and dancing.
What is a flapper?
100
This suffragist leader founded the League of Women voters.
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
100
This unpopular Amendment made it illegal to make or sell alcoholic beverages.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment? (Also will accept the Prohibition Amendment)
200
Any method of communication that reaches a large number of people, including radio, newspapers, television, magazines, and computer networks.
What is media?
200
An advancement in movies that incorporated sound for the first time.
What are talking pictures?
200
The first talking picture, starring Al Jolson.
What is The Jazz Singer?
200
This man was one of the most famous jazz composers of the 1920s.
Who is Duke Ellington?
200
After the start of Prohibition, there was a big rise in this type of crime led by men like Al Capone.
What is organized crime?
300
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
300
This source of entertainment brought music, news, sporting events, comedy shows, and the first "soap operas" into people's homes.
What are radios?
300
A cultural movement that began in the 1920's and centered in a New York City neighborhood where many African Americans lived.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
This woman was the first to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean and disappeared in 1937 during a flight around the world.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
300
Veterans returning from WWI believed that jobs should not go to this group of people.
What are immigrants?
400
The form of popular music that grew out of African American culture in the 1920s.
What is jazz?
400
The name for moving pictures made before 1927. These moving pictures had no sound.
What are silent films?
400
Duke Ellington's type of music gave rise to this nickname for the 1920's.
What is The Jazz Age?
400
This poet who lived in Harlem described his feelings about the 1920s in his poem "Harlem Night Song".
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
Examples of jobs women started throughout the 1920s.
What are working in factories, working in businesses, as lawyers, as house painters?
500
An amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1920, that gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
500
This invention helped women to style their hair more efficiently.
What are hair dryers?
500
BACKWARDS JEOPARDY: How did the 1920's get the nickname "The Roaring 20s"?
The decade got the nickname from the time's prosperity and excitement.
500
This author described the 1920s as "the greatest, guadiest spree in history" in his novel The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
500
BACKWARDS JEOPARDY: Describe how the government treated businesses in the 1920's.
The government left businesses alone.
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