People
High school biology substitute teacher that taught evolution to a public school class and went to trials and was convicted
What was John T Scopes?
He was a great black jazz musician playing the trumpet and grew up in the slums of New Orleans poor and hungry
who was Louis Armstrong?
Place that sold illegal alcohol
what was a Speakeasy?
Wrote about a family’s migration from the Oklahoma dust bowl to the promised land of California in the book entitled The Grapes of Wrath
Who was John Steinbeck?
Name the four presidents from 1920 to 1941
Who were: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR?
The carmaker who introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions, and daily life
Who was Henry Ford?
He was a great black jazz musician growing up in middle-class Washington DC
who was Duke Ellington?
Type of improvised music that swept the 1920s scene in every night club in the U.S.
what is Jazz?
Young women in the 1920s who cut their hair short, wore skirts cut above their knees, and painted their lips bright red
who were the Flappers?
people that sold illegal alcohol to consumers
Who were bootleggers?
Two anarchist Italian immigrants that were found guilty for robbing and killing shoe factory clerks and sentenced to death
who were Sacco & Vanzetti?
She used tales and songs of Africa to uncover the cultural roots of Blacks
who was Zora Neale Hurston?
A secret group that defined Americans as native born, white, protestants; discriminated against African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and other minorities
who were/are the Ku Klux Klan?
Name five things people of the 20s might have spent their money on
what were cigarettes, alcohol, music, radios, clubs, lipstick, new clothes, cars, airplane flights, dance lessons?
The first person to fly solo across the Atlantic
who was Charles Lindbergh?
Wrote about the unhappy life of a wealthy, popular man who was once a poor farm boy in the book entitled The Great Gatsby
Who was F Scott Fitzgerald?
Poet who wrote about the noble past of African Americans, their dreams, discrimination, and disappointments; he asked “what happens to the African American dream of equality if it continues to be put off”
who was Langston Hughes?
The ban on making or selling alcohol
what was Prohibition?
The belief that humans evolved from monkeys
What is Evolution?
Chicago mob boss thought to have masterminded the St Valentines Day Massacre
who was “Scarface” Al Capone?
Wrote A Farewell to Arms, which told the story of the impact WWI had on the life of an American man
who was Ernest Hemingway?
Black nationalist who started the first black newspaper Negro World, believed all blacks should go back to Africa and reconnect with their long lost families and find new freedom
who was Marcus Garvey?
Limits immigration from Europe after WWI
what was the Emergency Quota Act?
The belief that humans were created and put on earth by God
what is Creationism?
He was seen as baseball’s home run king hitting 714 a record lasting until the 1960s
who was George Herman “Babe” Ruth?