Roaring Twenties

Name for the 1920s, because of the popularity of jazz-a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime

• Flappers

• Jazz Age

• Great Migration

• Teapot Dome

The _____ _______ is the fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.

(a)  

Part of the "lost generation" of American modernists, her Paris apartment was a pilgrimage site for authors, painters, etc. (incl. Picasso, Hemingway, and others).

• Gertrude Stein

• Ethel Waters

• Zelda Fitzgerald

• Zora Neale Hurston

American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• WEB DuBois

• Ethel Waters

• Duke Ellington

Langston Hughes is:

• African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music.

• African American pianist, composer, arranger, and band leader from New Orleans.

• African American writer who wanted to save African American folklore. She traveled across the South collecting stories.

• Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI.

What is the first name of Fitzgerald's wife? She was an artist and flapper who challenged traditional values in the 1920's.

(a)  

An artist from New Orleans who bridged the gap between the piano styles of ragtime and jazz, and was the first important jazz composer.

• Langston Hughes

• Ethel Waters

• Jelly Roll Morton

• Duke Ellington

A Norwegian expressionist artist who is most famous for "The Scream."

• Gertrude Stein

• Pablo Picasso

• Salvador Dali

• Edvard Munch

Explain how the assembly line works.

A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company.

• Teapot Dome

• Red Scare

• Flappers

• Great Migration