Roaring 20s-Changes

The Harlem Renaissance refers to:

• A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture
• A struggle for civil rights by the NAACP
• A program to promote African-American owned businesses
• A population increase in Harlem during the 1920s

Speakeasies were:

• A place for public speaking
• Underground saloons and nightclubs
• A distillery
• A jazz club for upper class citizens

Court case over the teaching of evolution in schools during the 1920s.

• Scopes

• Red Scare

• Tennessee Evolution

• Smith

Name given to women who challenged traditional standards of behavior during the 1920s.

• Fashionistas

• Pearls

• Charlestons

• Flappers

The name given to young ladies that cut their hair short, wore make-up, and short dresses.

• Suffragettes

• Housewives

• Flappers

• Puritans

Which of the following most accurately describes why Prohibition failed?

• Prohibition -- strictly enforced by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies – created an immense prison population that cost tax payers millions.

• Never popular and often ignored, Prohibition led to a rise of crime in the country

• Prohibition led to the stock market crash of 1929, which ushered in the period known as the Great Depression.

• Only the Federal Bureau of Investigation was responsible for enforcing the conditions of the 18th Amendment.

What trial pitted science versus religion in the 1920s?

• Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

• The Scopes Trial

• The Teapot Dome Trial

• The Garvey Trial

What was the impact of the Harlem Renaissance? 

• promoted the growth of New York cities
• promoted culture identity of African Americans 
• it fought discrimination in southern cities
• it established programs such as the NAACP

During the 1920s, controversies concerning national Prohibition and the behavior of “flappers” were all signs of disagreement over…

• The return to normalcy

• Changing culture and lifestyles

• Causes of the Great Depression

• The benefits of new technology

Why was the 1920s known as the "Roaring 20s?"

• huge increase in immigration which led to fighting

• economic depression

• people were free to drink and party at their leisure

• it was a time of cultural and social changes