1920s - Great Depression

Why was the decade of the 1920s called the “Roaring Twenties”?

• Motorcars became popular and made a lot of noise

• Popular jazz music was said to make a roaring sound.

• The economy and culture of the United States were booming.

• People more openly expressed anger about society's injustices.

Which of the following 2 were results of the assembly line system being used in factories?

• Both productivity and employment rose

• Demand for goods and services fell dramatically.

• The price of manufactured goods decreased.

• The supply of manufactured goods and labor increased.

• Unemployment rose as machines put people out of work.

Which of the following helped to create a common national popular culture?

• newspapers

• radio

• television

• the suffrage movement

Charles Lindbergh was a well-known.....

• actors

• aviators

• jazz singers

• newspaper columnists

Known for being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Alice Paul

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Amelia Earhart

Which of the following would the Great Migration be most connected to?

• the Eighteenth Amendment

• the Harlem Renaissance

• the Lost Generation

• the Nineteenth Amendment

The Harlem Renaissance was a celebration of ....

• black lives and achievements

• New York City

• The Great Migration

• freedom found in northern cities by African Americans

Which of the following was an effect of Prohibition?

• a decrease in the number of bootleggers and speakeasies across the nation

• a drop in the crime rate because fewer people were becoming intoxicated

• an increase in the national debt due to the loss of revenue from the taxation of alcohol

• increased government corruption as police officials took bribes from gangsters

Why were some American writers of the 1920s called the “Lost Generation”?

• They appreciated the Jazz Age and America’s growing mass entertainment culture.

• They expressed feelings of deep alienation from American society.

• They had moved from the South to Northern cities during the Great Migration.

• They understood the pain of discrimination experienced by American women and minorities.

Which of the following contributed to the growth mass entertainment culture in the 1920s?

• new technologies such as radios
• movies

• newspapers

• assembly lines