Roaring Twenties

Who likely made this statement? “I wear bobbed hair and powder my nose. I wear fringed short skirts and bright-colored sweaters with low-heeled shoes. I adore smoking, drinking, and dancing.”

• A post-World War II subordinate
• A Roaring Twenties flapper
• A Depression-era homemaker
• A Gilded Age feminist

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Which of the following Amendments granted women the right to vote?

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Which invention allowed news and entertainment to reach the homes of the 1920's?

• the newspaper

• the radio

• the television

• the mail

What type of music was popular in speakeasies and other clubs during the 1920’s?

• Rock and Roll

• Jazz

• Rap

• Country

During the Great Migration, African Americans moved from

• South to West
• East to West
• South to North
• North to South

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

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

An inventor and business leader from Detroit who used the moving assembly line to make cars more affordable.

• Henry Ford

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Leland Stanford

The _________________________ was a movement in which large numbers of African Americans began leaving the South to take jobs in northern factories.

• Great Migration
• Trail of Tears
• Red Scare
• fundamentalism

In the 1920`s what was the most popular musical form which was influenced by African american music?

• blues 
• pop
• jazz
• hip hop 

Which African American writer wrote poems, books, and plays about the lives of African Americans?

• Bessie Smith
• Louis Armstrong
• Langston Hughes