Vocabulary
Define stock market.
What is a place where stocks are bought and sold?
Name the location of a major 3-day riot during the Red Summer of 1919.
What is Chicago?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This aviator became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
These two people are famous for their music. One was a piano-playing bandleader. The other was a trumpet-playing singer (with a gravelly voice). Tell who they are and which is which.
Who are Duke Ellington, the piano-playing bandleader, and Louis Armstrong, the trumpet-playing singer with the gravelly voice?
Define aviator and name 3 we've learned about.
Who is someone who flies, such as Bessie Coleman, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh?
Explain what the Ku Klux Klan is.
What is a hate group that persecuted and sometimes killed people they considered different, including Blacks, Jews, Catholics, and Chinese Americans?
Describe "flappers".
Who were young, independent women who wore shorter skirts, cut their hair, and enjoyed the freedom of new dance crazes?
These two woman are both named Bessie. Tell who they are and what they're famous for.
Who is Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to get her pilot's license? And who is Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues?
This man became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Explain what Prohibition was and what amendment made it law.
What was the 18th amendment that made the production, selling, and transporting of alcohol illegal?
What was the bloody summer of 1919 when racial violence spread across our country?
Possible facts: One of the worst incidents was the Chicago riot that lasted 3 days when a Black boy floated across a barrier and was killed when whites sunk his raft. Riots also took place in other places, such as Texas, Arkansas, Washington D.C.
Women had more free time in the 1920s. Explain why.
What are new, affordable inventions--like electricity, washing machines, and vacuum cleaners--that make housework quicker?
Name two people famous for sports (NOT baseball) and what sport each played.
Who is Helen Wills Moody, the famous tennis player? And who is Jack Dempsey, the boxer?
Name two baseball players and what each was best known for.
Who was Babe Ruth, the record-setting homerun king (and sometimes pitcher) of the Yankees?
And who was Lou Gehrig, the Yankee first baseman who was a good hitter and set a record for the most consecutive games?
Define "boom" in reference to the Roaring Twenties.
What is the time period in history when the U.S. experienced fast economic growth?
Name FOUR facts about the Greenwood Riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
(Possible answers)
Most of Greenwood was burned and destroyed by white mobs. Black citizens of Greenwood were armed and willing to fight to save their town. Nobody knows exactly how it began. Greenwood was considered the Black Wall Street (a symbol of economic success), and the whites of Tulsa didn't like their success. In American history, it is the worst event of racial violence.
The 1920s are sometimes called "The Jazz Age" and sometimes called "The Roaring Twenties." Explain each nickname.
What is this music, made popular by African American musicians, that is modern and represents the new freedom?
What is this booming economy and technological progress that's "roaring" forward?
These two famous people have a connection to Alabama. One married a woman from Alabama, and the other was born in Alabama. BONUS: Name what both are famous for.
Who are F. Scott Fitzgerald and W.C. Handy?
Who was an author and wrote The Great Gatsby?
Who was a trumpet player, often called the "Father of the Blues"?
These two famous men were poets. Name them and what they were known for.
1. Who is Langston Hughes, one of the greatest American poets?
2. Who is James Weldon Johnson, Christian poet and activist who wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing," considered by many to be the Black national anthem?
Describe at least 3 things about the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the time period in American history when African Americans experienced
1. a creative explosion in art, music, and literature?
2. great pride in their people, culture, and history?
(Other possibilities: center was Harlem in New York City)
Name FOUR factors that built racial tension that led to riots in the 1920s.
What are 1) the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and their hatred of Blacks, Jews, Catholics (Irish), Asians... 2) increased competition between Blacks and Whites for jobs and housing in northern cities after the Great Migration; 3) Black soldiers from WWI who had fought for freedom in Europe and were more willing to fight for it at home; 4) Blacks were rising economically and culturally, which many Whites didn't like.
Explain what the Great Migration is and why it happened.
What is the movement (migration) of 3/4 of a million African Americans from the South to northern cities?
What are the racial persecution of the South, the poverty of sharecropping, and better job opportunities of the North?
Name the three presidents during the 1920s--IN ORDER--and name something each is known for.
1. Who is Warren Harding, the president who wanted the U.S. to get back to normal?
2. Who is Calvin Coolidge, the president who thought the government should run like a business so he cut spending and lowered taxes?
3. Who is Herbert Hoover, the president who won by a landslide and ushered in the Great Depression?
Name what each of the following people is famous for: 1. Zora Neale Hurston, 2. Coco Chanel, 3. Cab Calloway, 4. Aaron Douglas, 5. Al Capone
Who is...
1. an African American author known for her interest in Black culture and her novels like Their Eyes Were Watching God
2. a fashion designer with a signature "little black dress" and perfume
3. a bandleader, scat singer, actor known for his energetic performances
4. a painter whose symbolism celebrated racial pride and Black history/culture
5. a Chicago crime boss who made millions during Prohibition