1920's Test Block 4

How did schools change in the 1920's ?

• Offers a broad range of courses for students to train for industrial jobs

• There were just one room schoolhouses

• Only learned reading, writing, math, geography, and history.

what helped shape the media in the 1920's? 

• Movies

• Magazines

• Books

Who were heroes that inspired Americans in the 1920's? 

• Charles Linderbergh

• Robert E. Lee

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

What new styles did writers, artists, and composers experiment with in the decade?

• Forced Americans to reflect upon modern isolationism, confusion, & family conflict

• Broke away from the European traditions of the 1920s

• A type of country, the beginning of pop, and classical.

How did the literature of the time express a clash of values within society?

• Dramatized the clash between traditional & modern values that had undermined society 50 years earlier.

• Help students to clarify, extend and communicate their developing knowledge of history.

• Around 40 percent of males and 60 percent of females in England and Wales were illiterate.

What caused the Harlem Renaissance?

• financial and educational possibilities

  racial violence

  to escape oppression

  all the above

• racial violence

• to escape oppression

• all the above

What ways did African-American leaders propose to combat discrimination and violence?

• They held marches and rallies.

• Eventually then ended up getting attention through news papers

• The post-war era was a time that consisted of unprecedented energy against the second class citizenship accorded to African Americans in many parts of the nation.

• They participated in Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination using plan of action such as civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance.

Louis Armstrong was???

• a guy who played in the nfl

• young trumpet player who became a famous jazz player

• a renowned actor

• a celebrated author

What advances were made in the airplane industry during the postwar years?

• The invention of the jet engine

• The construction of airports

• The introduction of air traffic control systems

• The development of air navigation technology

What role did mass advertising play in the American economy in the 1920’s?  

• It didn't help much

• created economic problems

• allowed economic growth

• improved production methods