1920s Social Studies
What are the two major upheavals of the Roaring Twenties?
World War I and the Great Depression
The original name for the mysterious force that picks up small, lightweight objects when objects are rubbed together is ...
Electric force
What is the name for the process where composition and performance happen simultaneously?
improvisation
In the 1920s, what term was used for what we now call World War I?
The Great War
What is the title of Adam Smith’s book on economics?
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
What two aspects of America’s popular culture made major strides in the 1920s?
Hollywood and jazz
Who named the ‘electric force’?
William Gilbert
What is the pitch of a sound?
the highness or lowness of it
Who wrote the 1928 book Home to Harlem?
Claude Mckay
What is the average number of different items an average supermarket carries?
About 31,530
What are the three areas of mass innovations that rose in the 1920s?
communication, consumption, and entertainment
What is the Greek word for amber?
Elektron
What is the most general definition of music?
sound organized in time
1920 not only represented the beginning of a gradual improvement in the nation’s economic outlook but represented the arrival of a new period of ....
urbanization
What is the most fundamental element of economics?
choices
What New York Yankee baseball player rose to greatness during the 1920s?
Babe Ruth
What were the ‘four elements’ Earth was thought to be made of in Western thought?
Earth, Air, Fire, Water
What are the two types of musical sound?
pitched and non-pitched
What amendment was responsible for Prohibition?
the Eighteenth Amendment
The driving force behind the actions of the butcher, brewer, and baker is
self-interest
What organization resurged as a result of racism and anti-Semitism?
Ku Klux Klan
What is the chemical composition of water?
Hydrogen and oxygen
Which type of instruments provide most of the non-pitched sounds in music?
percussion
Who was the author of the poem “The Flapper”?
Dorothy Parker
Economics helps us understand which two aspects in our economy?
why economy functions smoothly at times, and why it occasionally breaks down