The Roaring Life of the 1920s - Chapter 21

Question 1

The era that prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

Answer 1

Prohibition

Question 2

Hidden saloons and nightclubs that illegally sold liquor

Answer 2

Speakeasy

Question 3

Smugglers who brought alcohol in from Canada and the Caribbean

Answer 3

Bootlegger

Question 4

Religious movement based on the belief that everything written in the Bible was literally true

Answer 4

Fundamentalism

Question 5

Famous trial lawyer

Answer 5

Clarence Darrow

Question 6

Trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution

Answer 6

Scopes trial

Question 7

Young woman who embraced the new fashions and values of the 1920s

Answer 7

Flapper

Question 8

Set of principles granting one group more freedom than another group

Answer 8

Double Standard

Question 9

First person to fly solo across the Atlantic

Answer 9

Charles A. Lindbergh

Question 10

Composer who merged jazz with traditional elements creating music with a new American sound

Answer 10

George Gershwin

Question 11

Artist who showed the grandeur of New York City

Answer 11

Georgia O’Keeffe

Question 12

Novelist who was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature

Answer 12

Sinclair Lewis

Question 13

Novelist who wrote “The Great Gatsby”

Answer 13

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 14

Poet who celebrated youth and freedom from traditional restrictions

Answer 14

Edna Vincent Millay

Question 15

Novelist who introduced a tough, simple style of writing that changed American literature

Answer 15

Ernest Hemingway

Question 16

Poet and civil rights leader who fought to get laws against lynching passed by Congress

Answer 16

James Weldon Johnson

Question 17

Black nationalist leader

Answer 17

Marcus Garvey

Question 18

African-American artistic movement

Answer 18

Harlem Renaissance

Question 19

Poet who wrote about the pain of prejudice.

Answer 19

Claude McKay

Question 20

Poet who wrote about the daily lives of working-class blacks.

Answer 20

Langston Hughes

Question 21

Anthropologist and author

Answer 21

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 22

Actor, singer, and civil rights leader

Answer 22

Paul Roberson

Question 23

The most important and influential jazz musician

Answer 23

Louis Armstrong

Question 24

Jazz pianist and one of the nation’s greatest composers.

Answer 24

“Duke” Ellington

Question 25

Outstanding blues singer

Answer 25

Bessie Smith