Chapter 8: The Roaring Twenties

Which statement explains why the 1920s were called the "Roaring 20s?"

• The United States went through an economic hardship that brought changes to a way of life.

• The United States went through an economic boom and prosperity brought changes to popular culture.

• The United States got bombed by Germany.

• The United States went through an economic boom that brought hardship to the culture.

Which statement accurately describes the work on Georgia O'Keeffe?

• Georgia O'Keeffe was a musician who was part of the Jazz Age.

• Georgia O'Keeffe was a writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance.

• Georgia O'Keeffe was a painter who painted in the style of American modernism.

• Georgia O'Keeffe was a composer who wrote American operas.

During the "Roaring 20s," young women in cities started wearing shorter skirts and dresses and doing dances like the ________.

• Go-Go

• flapper

• Electric slide

• Charleston

A young woman who started wearing shorter skirts and dresses was called a _______.

• city girl

• flapper

• country girl

• modernist

During the "Roaring 20s," _____ people bought automobiles like the Model T because they became less expensive.

• more

• lots

• few

• ten

A period of quick, rapid economic growth is called ___________.

• prosperity

• modernism

• economic boom

• nationalist

Wealth or financial success is _______.

• modernism

• flapper

• economic boom

• prosperity

This novelist wrote about the strength of poor migrant workers. Two of his classics are Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Jacob Lawrence

• John Steinbeck

• Georgia O'Keeffe

This novelist was famous for his writing about the Jazz Age and The Great Gatsby.

• John Steinbeck

• Langston Hughes

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Louis Armstrong

Name two composers that were well known during the "Roaring 20s."

• Rogers and Hammerstien

• Armstrong and Ellington

• Lawrence and Lawrence

• Copland and Gershwin