Jazz Age Review

The movement of African Americans from the south to the north and Midwest is called

• the Harlem Renaissance

• the Great Migration

• the Great Depression

• the Italian Renaissance

Which of these were reasons that African Americans left the south? (3 push factors)

• Sharecropping

• too many jobs

• segregation

• freedom

• lynching

Which of these were reasons that African Americans wanted to come to the north and Midwest? (3 pull factors)

• sharecropping

• available jobs

• segregation

• freedom

• better schools

People in the 1920's could enjoy which of these technologies for entertainment?

• television

• radio

• movies

• cassette players

How did Prohibition change life in the United States?

• children stopped drinking alcohol

• African Americans moved north

• Women gained their independence

• Organized Crime increased because of illegal alcohol sales

Affordable automobiles led to what changes in the United States in the 1920's?

• Drinking at speakeasies increased

• Americans had more freedom and roads were paved

• Americans began walking more

• Americans were outraged by the high prices of cars

Who painted scenes like this of the Great Migration?

• Georgia O'Keeffe

• Jacob Lawrence

• Pablo Picasso

• Bessie Smith

Who wrote about inequality and was part of the Harlem Renaissance?

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Louis Armstrong

• Langston Hughes

• John Steinbeck

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote novels about which of these aspects of 1920's life?

• horrible conditions in meatpacking plants

• the lives of migrant workers in California

• the empty, frivolous lives of rich people

• the Harlem Renaissance

George Gershwin was influenced by which of these?

• Jazz music in speakeasies

• Spring in the Appalachian Mountains

• the Great Migration

• Knock Knock Jokes