The Twenties

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Which of the following is credited with helping to promote the tremendous literary and artistic flowering that took place in Harlem in the 1920s?

the founding of the KKK

the magazine Vanity Fair

the Great Migration

the publication of God’s Trombone

A wholly original form of American music, jazz performances

blended several different musical forms from the Lower South often improvised

relied on classical melodic structures adapted from European composers.

depended on every note being plotted in advance.

was defined by clear rules.

The Scopes Monkey trial pitted academic freedom and the teachings of modern science against

the assembly line

the views of Marcus Garvey.

the healing techniques of Aimee Semple McPherson.

fundamentalism and Biblical literalism.

The primary goal of the NAACP was to

 improve safety conditions for African Americans who worked on assembly lines.

end discrimination against and mistreatment of African Americans throughout the United States.

 end illiteracy among the nation’s poor, by focusing especially on those in rural areas.

encourage African Americans to pursue jobs in the arts and sciences.

Background
rapid cultural changes
Result 1
ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

Which of the following would be the next result?

ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment

 more opportunities for women

 increased jobs when troops returned from World War I

passage of the Volstead Act.

Speakeasies were a way that many Americans got around the restrictions that resulted from _______________________.

evolution

the assembly line

Prohibition

mass media

_______________________ was the unofficial capital of African American culture in the 1920s.

Harlem

Jacksonville

Columbus

Nashville

The continuos growth of cities is called _______________________.

consumption

mass production

ruralization

urbanization

In a decade full of firsts, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic was _______________________.

Jessica Harris

Betsy Ross

Edith Wharton

Amelia Earhart

Most rural women in America approved of flappers.

True

False

Racial violence erupted in a number of cities in the northern part of the United States after World War I.

True

False

Prohibition decreased crime

True

False

Mass media of the 1920's created a poular culture.

True

False

The Great Migration was the movement of African Americans from the north to the south.

True

False

African Americans involved in the the Great Migration moved to escape the Jim Crow Laws that made segregation legal.

True

False

Places where liquor was sold illegally.

Churches 

Speakeasies

Factories

Libraries

Which of the following groups of people were against teaching evolution in school?

Teachers

Christian Fundamentalists

Scientists

College Professors

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

16th 

17th

18th

19th

Which amendment banned alcohol?

16th

17th

18th

19th

The type of music that became poular in the 1920's.

Motown

Rap

Jazz

Pop

Select the 3 Jazz Musicians of the Twenties

Which of the following groups of people was NOT a target of the Ku Klux Klan?

African Americans

European Jews

Asian Immigrants

Christian Fundamentalists 

Select the 5 things associated with the Scopes Trial

Select the 5 things that were associated with Prohibition.

Select the 5 things that are associated with the Great Migration

Select the 5 things associated with new roles for women

Which of the following is credited with helping to promote the tremendous literary and artistic flowering that took place in Harlem in the 1920s?

the founding of the KKK

the magazine Vanity Fair

the Great Migration

the publication of God’s Trombone

A wholly original form of American music, jazz performances

blended several different musical forms from the Lower South often improvised

relied on classical melodic structures adapted from European composers.

depended on every note being plotted in advance.

was defined by clear rules.

The Scopes Monkey trial pitted academic freedom and the teachings of modern science against

the assembly line

the views of Marcus Garvey.

the healing techniques of Aimee Semple McPherson.

fundamentalism and Biblical literalism.

The primary goal of the NAACP was to

 improve safety conditions for African Americans who worked on assembly lines.

end discrimination against and mistreatment of African Americans throughout the United States.

 end illiteracy among the nation’s poor, by focusing especially on those in rural areas.

encourage African Americans to pursue jobs in the arts and sciences.

Background
rapid cultural changes

Result 1
ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

Which of the following would be the next result?

ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment

 more opportunities for women

 increased jobs when troops returned from World War I

passage of the Volstead Act.

Speakeasies were a way that many Americans got around the restrictions that resulted from _______________________.

evolution

the assembly line

Prohibition

mass media

_______________________ was the unofficial capital of African American culture in the 1920s. 

Harlem

Jacksonville

Columbus

Nashville

The continuos growth of cities is called _______________________. 

consumption

mass production

ruralization

urbanization

 In a decade full of firsts, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic was _______________________.

Jessica Harris

Betsy Ross

Edith Wharton

Amelia Earhart

Most rural women in America approved of flappers.

True

False

Racial violence erupted in a number of cities in the northern part of the United States after World War I.

True

False

Prohibition decreased crime

True

False

Mass media of the 1920's created a poular culture.

True

False

The Great Migration was the movement of African Americans from the north to the south.

True

False

African Americans involved in the the Great Migration moved to escape the Jim Crow Laws that made segregation legal.

True

False

Places where liquor was sold illegally.

Churches 

Speakeasies

Factories

Libraries

Which of the following groups of people were against teaching evolution in school?

Teachers

Christian Fundamentalists

Scientists

College Professors

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

16th 

17th

18th

19th

Which amendment banned alcohol?

16th

17th

18th

19th

The type of music that became poular in the 1920's.

Motown

Rap

Jazz

Pop

Select the 3 Jazz Musicians of the Twenties

Garth Brooks

Louis Armstrong 

Babe Ruth

Cab Calloway

Charlie Chaplin

Bessie Smith

Ken Dille

Which of the following groups of people was NOT a target of the Ku Klux Klan? 

African Americans

European Jews

Asian Immigrants

Christian Fundamentalists 

Select the 5 things associated with the Scopes Trial

Science

Jazz

Fundamentalism

Migration

Evolution

Religion

Bible

Mass Production

Urbanization

Select the 5 things that were associated with Prohibition.

bootleggers

suffrage

Speakeasies

Evolution

19th amendment

18th amendment

Art

Ban on alcohol

Increase in organized crime

Select the 5 things that are associated with the Great Migration

Segregation

Lucky Lindy

Harlem Renaissance 

African Americans leaving the south 

19th Amendment 

Bootleggers

Increased the population of black people in northern cities 

Racial tension in the north

More farm land

Select the 5 things associated with new roles for women

gangsters

Harlem Renaissance

18th Amendment

19th Amendment 

suffrage

flappers 

jobs for women outside the home

greater sense of equality in relationships with men

NAACP

The Twenties

The Twenties

Which of the following is credited with helping to promote the tremendous literary and artistic flowering that took place in Harlem in the 1920s?

A wholly original form of American music, jazz performances

The Scopes Monkey trial pitted academic freedom and the teachings of modern science against

The primary goal of the NAACP was to

Backgroundrapid cultural changes Result 1ratification of the Nineteenth AmendmentWhich of the following would be the next result?

Speakeasies were a way that many Americans got around the restrictions that resulted from _______________________.

_______________________ was the unofficial capital of African American culture in the 1920s.

The continuos growth of cities is called _______________________.

In a decade full of firsts, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic was _______________________.

Most rural women in America approved of flappers.

Racial violence erupted in a number of cities in the northern part of the United States after World War I.

Prohibition decreased crime

Mass media of the 1920's created a poular culture.

The Great Migration was the movement of African Americans from the north to the south.

African Americans involved in the the Great Migration moved to escape the Jim Crow Laws that made segregation legal.

Places where liquor was sold illegally.

Which of the following groups of people were against teaching evolution in school?

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

Which amendment banned alcohol?

The type of music that became poular in the 1920's.

Select the 3 Jazz Musicians of the Twenties

Which of the following groups of people was NOT a target of the Ku Klux Klan?

Select the 5 things associated with the Scopes Trial

Select the 5 things that were associated with Prohibition.

Select the 5 things that are associated with the Great Migration

Select the 5 things associated with new roles for women

Background
rapid cultural changes
Result 1
ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

Which of the following would be the next result?