Jazz Age

Question 1

What was the Jazz age also known as?

Answer 1

The Roaring 20s

Question 2

Who named the 1920s the ‘Jazz age’?

Answer 2

An American writer called F. Scott. Fitzgerald

Question 3

What was a flapper?

Answer 3

A girl who possessed ‘it’ (sex appeal) and liked drinking alcohol, smoking and driving cars.

Question 4

What were ‘Jazz Babies’?

Answer 4

Girls who liked dancing and syncopated music

Question 5

What dance was popular during the jazz age?

Answer 5

The Charleston

Question 6

What was the Jazz age?

Answer 6

A period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular

Question 7

Name three famous men during the Jazz age

Answer 7

Al Capone
Babe Ruth
Charlie Chaplin

Question 8

Name a famous car during the jazz age

Answer 8

The Model T

Question 9

Name three gangsters

Answer 9

Alphonse Capone
Machine gun Kelly
Jack Legs Diamond

Question 10

What were illegal drinking clubs called?

Answer 10

Speakeasies

Question 11

When was the Great Depression at it’s worst?

Answer 11

Winter of 1932

Question 12

Define prohibition

Answer 12

The 18th Amendment to the US constitution which involved the banning of making, selling or moving alcohol in America

Question 13

Who were rum runners?

Answer 13

People who brought in drink by boat

Question 14

What was bootlegging ?

Answer 14

The making of illegal alcohol

Question 15

What was Chicago known as during the Jazz age

Answer 15

The head of organised crime e.g Little Caesar

Question 16

What were dance marathons?

Answer 16

It was a way of earning quick easy money or gaining stardom, which involved dancing to slow music for hours, however twice an hour they would pick up the music to make ‘sprints’

Question 17

What games were popular in the 1920s?

Answer 17

Mahjong, Ouija Boards and Crossword puzzles

Question 18

What did flappers look like? (4)

Answer 18

They had short bobbed hair, wore lots of make up and powdered their knees, exposed their limbs and wore baggy dresses

Question 19

Name four impacts of the Wall Street Crash on people

Answer 19

12 million out of work
20,000 companies went bankrupt
23,000 people committed suicide in one year
1 in 20 farmers were evicted

Question 20

What was Al Capone known as?

Answer 20

Scar face, or ‘public enemy number one’

Question 21

Who did Al Capone work for?

Answer 21

Jonny Torrio

Question 22

Who was Jonny Torrio?

Answer 22

Chicago’s leading figure in the underworld

Question 23

How long did Al Capone ‘work’ for?

Answer 23

1925 - 1931

Question 24

Why was the Jazz age called the ‘Golden Age’?

Answer 24

People felt they were lucky to have survived the war and the economy was high. Everyone had high spirits

Question 25

Name three famous women during the jazz age

Answer 25

Coco Chanel
Louise Brooks
Zelda Sayre

Question 26

Who were the untouchables?

Answer 26

A special unit in the police force used to take down the Mafia and Al Capone

Question 27

What happened in October 1929?

Answer 27

The huge wealth from the Jazz Age was an illusion and the Wall Street Crash ensued. The stock market crashed with the value of shares on Wall Street stock exchange in New York so low that many people lost all of their money. This event led to the Great Depression of the 1930s

Question 28

Name four of the economic impacts the Wall Street Crash had on businesses.

Answer 28

People could no longer afford to spend money on consumer products, which meant that shops went bankrupt and factories had no reason to employ people who were making products that were not being sold

Question 29

Why did the Jazz Age end?

Answer 29

It ended because the Wall Street Crash occurred as a result of the economic wealth of the 1920s being an illusion