The Roaring Twenties

With which of the following is Langston Hughes most closely associated?

• Great Depression

• Harlem Renaissance

• Women’s Suffrage

• World War II

Which invention allowed news and entertainment to reach large audiences in a very short amount of time in the 1920's?

• the newspaper
• the radio
• the television
• the mail

became the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927

• Glenn Curtiss

• Charles Lindbergh

• Orville Wright

• Wilbur Wright

government officials convicted of accepting bribes for leasing federal land to oil companies

• Watergate
• Teapot Dome
• Iran Contra
• Pentagon Papers

style many women adopted of shorter dresses shorter hair rejecting the more tradition fashion and lifestyle

• Women's Liberation
• Flapper
• Bird
• Suffrage

campaign slogan placing emphasis on a return to the way of life as it had been prior to World War I; peacetime production and prosperity at home.

• Morning in America

• Fair Deal

• Square Deal

• Return to Normalcy

wave of panic and hysteria in America caused by a fear of Communism and anarchy

• Red Scare
• Communist Witch Hunts
• Consumerism
• Socialism

courtroom battle over the teaching of modern scientific theories and the traditional religious beliefs

• Shenck v. US
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Scopes "Monkey" Trial

hostile group that was anti-immigrant, anti-catholic, anti-jewish, anti-african-american

• Nativists
• Ku Klux Klan
• White Liners
• Make America Great Again

a rebirth of African American culture. For the first time, white Americans took notice of the achievements of black artists.

• Beat Generation

• Hip-Hop

• Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem Shake