The Roaring Twenties

What was the Great Migration?

• The large number of immigrants entering the US from southern Europe during the 1920s.

• The mass movement of Black people from the South to cities in the industrialized North during the early 20th century.

• The name given to the annual movement of wild horses across indigenous reservations in the upper Rocky Mountain states.

• The yearly run of salmon up the Columbia River which provided a much-needed source of food for new settlers to Oregon and Washington.

What was Prohibition?

• The outlawing of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the US between 1920 and 1933.

• The law limiting the types of jobs Black people could take in the 1920s.

• The political movement in the 1920s that worked to prohibit women from voting.

• The law prohibiting U.S. presidents from serving more than two terms in office.

_______?_______ Famous Black poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Innovator of "jazz poetry." Author of plays, short stories, and essays. The table above best describes - ?

• Marcus Garvey

• Babe Ruth

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Langston Hughes

Which of the following is NOT true of Charles Lindbergh?

• His plane was called The Spirit of Saint Louis.

• The kidnapping of his infant son was called "the crime of the century."

• U.S. presidential candidate in 1921.

• First person to fly solo from New York to Paris.

What group is shown in the above photo?

• Suffragists

• Flappers

• Speakeasy Girls

• The Women's League of America

What was different about the women shown in the photo from question #5?

• They rejected traditional 1920s ideas of what was acceptable behavior for women.

• They smoked cigarettes, went out dancing at night clubs, drank alcohol, and wore "short" skirts.

• They "bobbed" their hair (cut it short) and listened to jazz music.

• They worked outside the home at different jobs not previously available to their mothers and grandmothers.

Josephine Baker was-

• The wife of U.S. President Charles Baker and the only First Lady to work outside the home.

• The first white woman to star in a Hollywood movie.

• A French Resistance agent, civil rights activist, and the first Black American to star in a Hollywood movie.

• The first woman to serve in the United States Congress.

What condition of life in the 1920s was Langston Hughes writing about in the above poem?

• Prohibition

• Segregation

• Nationalism

• The lack of labor unions

Which 1920s leader started a movement that included encouraging Black people to move to the country of Liberia in West Africa?

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

• Marcus Garvey

• Babe Ruth

Which of the following people was a writer and educator who helped legalize contraception?

• Margaret Sanger

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Jane Addams

• Eleanor Roosevelt