Week 10: Roaring Twenties

Automobiles and appliances were two changes in technology that helped advance the 1920s. Appliances and electricity helped free up hours that used to be filled doing housework. Automobiles freed up hours that used to be filled walking or using horses. The freedom to travel became a part of the "American _______"

Charles Lindbergh was born in what state in 1902?

• Tennessee

• Kentucky

• Michigan

• Minnesota

Label the famous people who "broke the mold"

f

g

i

e

d

Helen Keller

W.E.B. DuBois

Charles Lindbergh

Zelda Fitzgerald

Amelia Earhart

Warren G. Harding

John T. Scopes

Louis Armstrong

Calvin Coolidge

Langston Hughes

In the 1920s, people started buying things on credit. What does that mean? (Hint: get your answer straight from the newspaper, not from your brain)

What is Charles Lindbergh known for?

• Becoming the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone in an airplane.

• Inventing the first airplane.

• Becoming the first person to invent wings for an airplane.

• Buying a car named "the Spirit of St. Louis"

Charles Lindbergh's airplane was named the (a)   of ​ (b)   .

• Spirit
• St. Louis
• Ghost
• New Orleans
• Phantom
• St. Johns

Helen Keller became blind and deaf from a high fever when she was just 19 months old. Helen's mother hired a teacher for Helen. What was the teacher's name?

• Annie Sue

• Anne Hathaway

• Abigail Sullivan

• Anne Sullivan

What new kind of music was introduced by the African American community in the 1920s?

What was Amelia Earhart known for?

• Being the first female president.

• Becoming the first female to become a veterinarian.

• Being the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Being the first person to ever fly an airplane.

What was Zelda Fitzgerald's job?

• dentist

• acrobat

• singer

• flapper