Standard 006 - The Roaring Twenties

This Jazz musician would become the most popular jazz musician of his time.

• Paul Lawrence Dunbar
• Eugene O'Neill
• Louis Armstrong
• Ernest Hemingway

_______ fell into economic crisis early in the 1920's due to less demand and lower prices for food after World War I.  Banks were ultimately hurt after this group failed to re-pay loans taken during the Great War to expand production.

• Farmers
• Steel Workers
• Oil Producers
• Airplane manufacturers

What was a bootlegger?

• Criminals who brought clothing made in other countries into the U.S.
• Criminals who brought guns made in other countries into the U.S.
• Criminal who sold alcohol in the United States during Prohibition
• Criminals who immigrated to the U.S. 

The ________ trial symbolizes the desire by some to return to religious fundamentalism in the 1920's as the speakeasies, flappers, jazz music, and easy money seemed to defy morality and religion.

• Scopes Monkey
• O.J. Simpson
• Scottsboro Boys Case
• Sacco-Vanzetti Trial

________ was a superstar of the 1920's by flying an airplane solo across the Atlantic Ocean in about 33 hours

• Charles Lindbergh
• Louis Armstrong
• Great Gatsby
• Neil Armstrong

______ revolutionized the auto industry by lowering prices and raising wages so that almost all families could afford a car by the 1920's

• Henry Ford
• Louis Chevrolet
• Ransom Olds
• John Francis Dodge

______ was the dominant civil rights leader of the 1920's.  He was militaristic and radically rejected lack of equality by proposing a migration to Africa, but was imprisoned and deported.

• Marcus Garvey
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Martin Luther King
• Malcolm X

What name was given to the great achievements in art and learning by African Americans during the 1920's?

• The Roaring 20s
• Sacco-Vanzetti Case
• Harlem Renaissance
• Scopes Trial

Why were some American writers of the 1920s called the “Lost Generation”?

• They expressed feelings of separation from American society after WWI.
• They returned to Paris where most of them were originally from.
• They expressed the pain of racism experienced by African Americans.
• They appreciated the Jazz Age and its rebellious youth culture.

The Scopes Trial represented the conflict between

• anarchists and communists about political reform. 
• scientists and environmentalists about the environment.  
• fundamentalist beliefs and scientific ideals about evolution. 
•  the government and U.S. citizens about prohibition.