Unit 6 - The Roaring Twenties - Review Flashcard

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___ was a new kind of music, invented by African Americans in the 1920s.

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Jazz

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In the 1920s Americans consumers began to do which of the following? sewing clothes, recycling goods, buying on credit, work from home

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buying on credit

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Which Amendment in the 1920s created Prohibition?

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18th

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The Sacco & Vanzetti demonstrated which characteristic of the 1920s?

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discrimination of immigrants

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Mass production techniques of the 1920s improved the economy by doing what?

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reducing the price of goods

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What was the 1925 case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools?

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The Scopes Trial

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A new name for young women who wore short skirts, cut their hair into a "bob", and listened and danced to jazz music.

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Flappers

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What Constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote?

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19th

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In the United States, the decade of the 1920s was characterized by

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increased consumer borrowing and spending

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Which development led to the other three? Options: growth of suburban housing, expansion of roads and highways, decline in the availability of mass transit, rise of the automobile industry

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rise of the automobile industry