1920's

Which phrase describes how people in the 1920’s bought things without actually having the cash to buy it (credit)?

• Recession

• Drought

• Buying on margin

• The Bull Market

Which term was NOT Associated with the 1920’s

• Most people used credit to buy goods

• Unemployment was low/most had jobs

• The economy was booming

• Farms were closing/no food for cities

Which phrase meant only a few people in the US had wealth or money?

• Stealing/theft

• Demobilization

• Uneven distribution of wealth

• Paying up front

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which word does not belong?

• The Great Migration

• Flappers, bootleggers

• Speakeasy

• The 18th Amendment

Which phrases or terms are best connected to the majority of the 1920’s?

• Bear market

• Roaring, prosperous, The Harlem Renaissance

• Debt, overproduction of goods

• Black Tuesday, The Stock Market Crash

Which term or phrase does not connect with the term Temperance or Prohibition?

• The 21st Amendment

• Mafia/Gangsters

• Moonshine/Bootleggers

• Speakeasies/Alcohol

The writer Zora Neale Hurston was best known for what?

• •She wrote about life in Florida for rich people

• •She was Caucasian woman who wrote about American food

• •She was the first American Indian to describe life on a reservation

• •She was an African American writer who wrote stories about southern life

The ____________________ was very affordable in the 1920's and changed the way Americans traveled. 

• Automobile
• Airplane
• Train
• City Bus

A Popular Sports Hero of the 1920's was

• Babe Ruth
• Michael Jordan
• Lebron James
• Alex Gordon

Prohibition was started in 1920 by which amendment?

• 17
• 18
• 19
• 21