Chapter 20-The Jazz Age Flashcards
He wrote “Death of a Salesman”, a tragic story but realistic character on the emerging culture of the 1920s
Eugene O’Neill
His poetry was complicated and filled with imagery.
c.c. eliot
He wrote “A Farewell to Arms”
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway’s novel about World War I showed the tragedy of war.
A Farewell to Arms
She wrote “Coming of Age in Samoa”
Margaret Meade
His painting of isolation and miss-understanding demonstrated the lost age of the ex-patriot generation of the 1920s
Edward Hopper
He was seen as the poet of the common man.
Carl Sandburg
His characters in “The Great Gatsby” showed the glamour, yet empty life of many wealthy during the 1920s
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This was a center of the New York City intellectual movement filled with a bohemian culture in the 1920s
Greenwich Village
He was an African American writer from Harlem in the 1920s
Claude McKay
She was seen as the Queen of Blues during the 1920s
Bessie Smith
The Dempsey vs. Tunney event was in the realm of this sport entertainment
boxing
The acts of _____ and _____ were extreme and strange aerial acrobatics entertainment popular during the 1920s.
Wing Walking and Barn Storming
KDKA was the first radio broadcast of a presidential election during _______’s election.
Warren G. Harding’s
List three important and famous silent movie entertainers during the 1920s?
Mary Pickford
Charlie Chaplin
Rudolph Valentino
She was a leader and important advocate of Birth Control during the 1920s
Margaret Sanger
This term describes the literal belief in the Bible.
Fundamentalism
This term describes the extended theory of natural selection.
Evolutionism
Who were the two celebrity lawyers at the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
This is often referred to as a 14 year progressive experiment to outlaw public consumption of alcohol.
Prohibition
This public law by Congress limited overseas immigration fueled by Anti-Immigrant attitudes.
National Origins Act
This was a internal population shift of African Americans from the Rural South to the Industrialized North during the 1920s
The Great Migration
The 1920s was greatly influenced by this popular music
Jazz
He was a African American leader during the 1920s
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey’s organization during the 1920s was called
The Universal Negro Improvement Association
This was an advancement of African American pride and culture with anti-racist themes during the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance
He used his musical talents with the trumpet to play Jazz during the 1920s
Louis Armstrong
This was a movement calling for the abandonment of all forms of government popular by some during the early years of the 1900s
anarchy
Which political party held power over the presidency during the 1920s
Republican Party
His phrase of “Normalcy” echoed an important theme spreading through America during the 1920s against agitation and progressivism.
Warren G. Harding
This stance by the United States toward world issues during the 1920s was a direct result of disappointing results from the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I
Isolationism
