Jazz Age

A great jazz musician who helped the 1920s become known as the "Jazz Age"

• Henry Ford
• Babe Ruth
• Louis Armstrong
• Langston Hughes

One of the greatest baseball players of all time, who helped professional sports become popular. 

• Babe Ruth
• Woodrow Wilson
• Charles Lindbergh
• Henry Ford

Famous African American poet who lived in Harlem and was a part of the Harlem Renaissance

• Louis Armstrong
• Langston Hughes
• Charles Lindbergh
• Woodrow Wilson

In  1920 all alcoholic beverages became illegal.  The law was disobeyed and then changed.  This time period was known  as 

• The Great Depression
• Prohibition
• Specialization
• Assembly of workers

During the 1920s many African  Americans became excellent in music, art, writing, and sports.  They wanted to prove they were talented and wanted to be treated equally.  This time period is known as the

• Equal Rights Movement
• Specialization
• Cultural Change Movement
• Harlem Renaissance

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

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

What disruptive things were happening that made some Americans nervous?

• strikes and labor unrest
• banking scandals
• WWII
• an invasion by a foreign country