The Roaring 20s & The Great Depression

The word promotional means...(Choose all that apply)

• Advertising

• Advancement of

• A type of commercial

• Political

Margaret Sanger was known for

• Fighting for women in the work place.
• Promoting Prohibition.
• Pushing for Birth Control.
• Being a female bootlegger.

This was a major innovation found in most homes by the end of the 20s.

• Radio
• Television
• Telephone
• Microwave.

An increase of radios in the United States meant which of the following?

• People were exposed to more commercials and advertisements .

• Stocks and bond were more available to the common man.

• More Americans could attend school.

• People needed fewer jobs.

The Harlem Renaissance

• Occurred in Harlem, New York

• Took place in the 1920s

• Was a period of intellectual, artistic, and social explosion

• All of the answers are correct

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What is the Harlem Renaissance?

• A travelling basketball team

• A rebirth of African American culture in art, music, and literature

• A medieval game

• Time period of around 1210 a.d. when the games of jousting and art became popular

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The Lost Generation of writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway had a style characterized by their

• Disillusionment with society.

• Happy, cheerful way of thinking.

• Focus on advanced vocabulary

• Whimsy

Which of the following contributed to the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and West of the United States? (Choose all that apply)

• Poverty in the South

• Great housing in the South

• Numerous factory jobs in the North

• Recruiters from the North looking for African American workers.

• The cuisine was better in the North

The Great Depression that began in 1929 hit farmers especially hard. Farmers had not been doing well in the 1920s and several years of severe drought turned the land into a "dust bowl." What was an immediate result of this?

• Many farmers decided to grow crops that did not use as much water.

• The government built large dams in the West for irrigation.

• Many farmers and their families lost their farms and moved west.

• The government helped farmers by buying their land and equipment.

Because of the Dust Bowl, many farmers moved to California 

• True
• False