Roaring 20's

Question 1

Th 20’s were a period of great what?

Answer 1

Great change

Question 2

Problem with wealth in us doubling after wwi?

Answer 2

Money not equally distributed

Question 3

What was questioned for the 1st time?

Answer 3

Religion

Question 4

Rapid cultural change:

Answer 4

Old conservative values and traditions were questioned and replaced with new liberal ideas

Question 5

Marked the beginning of the “BLANK Age” which meant what?

Answer 5

Out with the old ideas of the “Victorian Age” and in with the new! (Gender roles, religion, values etc.)

Question 6

What was the great migration that happened now?

Answer 6

Blacks to the North (cities)

Question 7

What kind of society did this create for the 1st time in US?

Answer 7

“Consumer society” things bought on credit, so everyone pretended to have wealth

Question 8

What were some new modern inventions that made life easier?

Answer 8

Automobiles, radios, motion pictures, washing machines,vacuums, toasters, etc.

Question 9

What was the “red scare”

Answer 9

A fear that there was going to be a communist take-over of the American government

Question 10

What were the activities for WOMEN in the EARLY 1920’s

Answer 10

Housework and child care

Question 11

How many single women worked outside the home and at what wages?

Answer 11

One in ten, at half a man’s wages!

Question 12

What did women give up to their husbands when married?

Answer 12

All rights (money property, etc.)

-their husband’s slaves

Question 13

Who were the early leaders of the women’s rights movement?

Answer 13

Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucrecia Mott

Question 14

What was the first women’s rights convention?

Answer 14

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 15

What were suffragettes?

Answer 15

Women activists

Question 16

What was the motto of the women’s rights activists?

Answer 16

“All men and women were created equally…”

Question 17

In 1910’s, who were the leaders of the American feminist movement- non-violent protests?

Answer 17

Alice Paul & Lucy Burns

Question 18

In 1920, what were women granted when the movement finally succeeded?

Answer 18

Women’s rights, The right to vote

Question 19

Sexual revolution:

Answer 19

“New women” /gained a new sense of freedom and independence

Question 20

For the 1st time, where did women work?

Answer 20

Outside the home

Question 21

Birth control movement-

Answer 21

(Margret Sanger) founder of planned parenthood- less children brought more freedom!

Question 22

Who were “flappers?”

Answer 22

The unconventional new women who wore their hair short, wore makeup, wore short skirts, and smoked and drank like the men!

Question 23

What were cigarettes called?

Answer 23

“Freedom torches”

Question 24

Who challenged religion?

Answer 24

Charles Darwin- “The origin of the Species” evolution theory

Question 25

Scopes monkey trial-

Answer 25

God or evolution in the schools?

Question 26

Impact of religion being challenged-

Answer 26

Evolution began to be taught in public schools as a result! “Modern science”

Question 27

What new forms of entertainment/ inventions came about as result of this time?

Answer 27

1) Music. 6) the automobile.
2) dance craze.
3) radio.
4) spectator sports.
5) motion pictures.

Question 28

Harlem Renaissance-

Answer 28

“New Negro Movement”

Question 29

Harlem-

Answer 29

“capital” of black America (NYC)

Question 30

Famous people from Harlem Renaissance-

Answer 30

Langston Hughes- poet, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong- musicians

Question 31

Prohibition: 18th amendment- “noble experiment”

Answer 31

Illegal to manufacture, buy or sell alcohol!

Led by Women’s Temperance Union

Led to gangsters- (bootleggers)- ran illegal business/brought “booze” from Canada- Al Capone- Chicago- crime greatly increased in America!

Question 32

What were speakeasy’s?

Answer 32

Underground alcohol/ Dance clubs

Cops paid off

Question 33

Farmers became-

Answer 33

“Moonshiners” rural areas made homemade whiskey

Question 34

Moonshiners were origin of what?

Answer 34

NASCAR

Question 35

What was the main reason the prohibition ended?

Answer 35

Alcohol was a huge tax revenue

Question 36

Ku Klux Klan-

Answer 36

“Invisible empire”- anti-black, Jewish, Catholic and immigrant organization

Peaked with 3-4 million members!

Question 37

Who was Charles Lindbergh?

Answer 37

1st solo transatlantic airplane flight “lucky Lindy”

-NYC to Paris, 33 hours

Question 38

Marcus Garvey-

Answer 38

“Back to Africa Movement”

Established: Universal Negro Movement

Question 39

Were the roaring twenties real?

Answer 39

No, the practice of buying things on credit made it appear that everyone was prosperous! (This was an allusion) (the Bible was bound to burst)