Events
A major crash that led to the Great Depression.
What is Stock Market Crash?
Broke tradition and started embracing a new modern life as women. Often wore short dresses, shorter hair, and enjoyed dancing.
What is Flappers?
Used to clean your floors/carpets.
What are Vacuum Cleaners?
Created the first automobiles.
Who is Henry Ford?
The author of the “Great Gatsby”
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Refers to periods of widespread fear of Communism and Socialism in the U.S.
What is the Red Scare?
A musical genre characterized by improvisation syncopated rhythms and complex harmonies.
What is Jazz?
Created by Henry Ford.
What are Automobiles?
Published a novel called "The Great Gatsby."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Influenced the Harlem Renaissance by infusing his writing with awareness of mobility both metaphorically and literal.
Who is Jean Toomer ?
Was an intergovernmental organization that guaranteed world peace.
What is the League of Nations?
A literacy an artistic movement celebrating black culture in the 1920's and the 1930's in a New York City neighborhood.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Used in homes as a source of entertainment and during the twenties it would sometimes be refereed as an "Image Dissector Tube."
What is Television?
A Jazz musician, particularly as a trumpeter and cornet player.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
What book was originally published April 10, 1925.
What is "The Great Gatsby?"
Is the day that the market was at it's lowest point in record trading volumes and massive price drops.
What is "Black Tuesday?"
Communication technologies designed to reach large audiences primarily the general public.
What is Mass Media?
Called the "Mangle Washer" during the twenties.
What is Washing Machines?
Ruled an empire of crime in the Windy City: gambling, prostitution, bootlegging,
Who is Al Capone?
T.S. Eliot wrote a book called ___
What is “The Waste Land?”
A major day that marked the beginning of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and also contributed to the Great Depression.
What is "Black Thursday?"
The visual and architectural designs that flourished during the twenties.
What is Art Deco?
In 1920, Los Angeles installed the first ___ ___at five locations.
What is Traffic Signals?
Served in the Army Air Service before his famous flight.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Was known for experimental use of language and exploration of new literacy methods.
Who is James Joyce?