Ch 21

Question 1

What was city life like?

Answer 1

Fast paced, competitive, and not leisurely

Question 2

What activities were tolerated in cities?

Answer 2

Drinking, gambling, and casual dating

Question 3

What was rural life like?

Answer 3

Slow, leisurely, and traditional

Question 4

This is the banning if the manufacture, sale; and position of alcohol

Answer 4

Prohibition 1920-1933

Question 5

What brought on prohibition?

Answer 5

Drinking caused crime, abuse, and accidents on the job

Question 6

This established a prohibition bureau

Answer 6

Volstead act

Question 7

This is a place where alcohol was sold during prohibition

Answer 7

Speakeasies

Question 8

What did a speakeasy usually require?

Answer 8

A password

Question 9

This is a person that smuggled alcohol from Canada, Cuba, or the West Indies

Answer 9

Bootleggers

Question 10

Who was al Capone?

Answer 10

A Chicago gangster that built a bootlegging empire

Question 11

This is the belief that all stories and details in the bible are true

Answer 11

Fundamentalism

Question 12

This is a case where a biology teacher was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed teaching evolution

Answer 12

Scopes Trial

Question 13

This man was the teacher in the scopes trial

Answer 13

John T Scopes

Question 14

This man was the famous trial lawyer hired by the ACLU to defend scopes

Answer 14

Clarence Darrow

Question 15

What did William Jennings Bryan do for the scopes trial?

Answer 15

He was a special prosecutor

Question 16

What was the outcome of the scopes trial?

Answer 16

Scopes was found guilty and teaching evolution remained outlawed

Question 17

What did women do in the 20’s in culture?

Answer 17

They sought greater independence and rejected past values

Question 18

This is a free thinking young woman who embraced new fashions and urban attitudes of the 20s

Answer 18

Flapper

Question 19

What did woman do that showed increased equality?

Answer 19

They smoked and drank in public and talked openly about sex

Question 20

This is a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men then women

Answer 20

Double standard

Question 21

With rising equality what did women focus time on?

Answer 21

Their families

Question 22

What did marriage become focused on?

Answer 22

Love and companionship

Question 23

Where did children spend time?

Answer 23

Schools and organized after school activities-not at factories

Question 24

Why did school enrollment increase?

Answer 24

Prosperous times an higher standards for industrial jobs

Question 25

This was the first person to have a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic

Answer 25

Charles Lindbergh

Question 26

This person was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

Answer 26

Amelia Earhart

Question 27

This man was a music composer that merged traditional elements with jazz

Answer 27

George Gershwin

Question 28

This lady was a painter hat captures the grandeur of NYC

Answer 28

Georgia O’Keefe

Question 29

This person was the first American to receive a Nobel prize in literature

Answer 29

Sinclair Lewis

Question 30

This man coined the “jazz age” to describe the 20s

Answer 30

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 31

This was an author wounded in WWI that criticized war glorification

Answer 31

Ernest Hemingway

Question 32

This man was the leader of the NAACP who fought for protective legislation

Answer 32

James Weldon Johnson

Question 33

This man founded the universal negro improvement association

Answer 33

Marcus Garvey

Question 34

What is Garvey encourage?

Answer 34

A return to Africa and a rise up against colonial oppression there

Question 35

This was a literary and artistic movement t celebrating black culture

Answer 35

Harlem renaissance

Question 36

This man was a writer who described the difficulties of working class blacks

Answer 36

Langston Hughes

Question 37

This man was a famous black trumpet player

Answer 37

Louis Armstrong

Question 38

This man was a jazz pianist and famous composer

Answer 38

Duke Ellington