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WorksheetsA.H. Chapter 21
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 23mins
the period from 1920-1933 during which the 18th Amendment forbid the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages
prohibition
speakeasy
bootlegger
fundamentalism
hidden saloons and night clubs
prohibition
speakeasy
bootlegger
fundementalism
a person who smuggled alcoholic beverages
prohibition
speakeasy
bootlegger
fundamentalism
the Protestant movement grounded in a literal or non-symbolic interpretation of the Bible
prohibition
speakeasy
bootlegger
fundamentalism
the trial lawyer the ACLU hired to defend Scopes
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Georgia O'Keaffe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society
Bible Trial
Evolution Trial
Scopes Trial
Listerine Trial
an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day
socialite
flapper
smacker
Charleston dancer
a set of principles of granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women
sexism
high society standard
backwards standard
double standard
a small-town pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic
Langston Hughes
Charles A. Lindbergh
James Weldon Johnson
Louis Armstrong
a concert music composer who merge traditional elements with American Jazz
George Gershwin
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstong
Besse Smith
produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sinclair Lewis
Zora Neale Hurston
Georgia O'Keaffe
the first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Langston Hughes
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
author who wrote "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gasby"
Langston Hughes
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Weldon Johnson
wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence an freedom from traditional constraints
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Willa Cather
Zora Neale Hurston
Bessie Smith
author who wrote "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Weldon Johnson
Claude McKay
Ernest Hemingway
a women who spent time with a traveling theater company and attended Howard University, she ended up in New York where she struggled to the top of African-American literary society
Edna St. Vincent millay
Zora neale Hurston
Bessie Smith
Georgia O'Keaffer
a poet and lawyer who lead the NAACP and focused on anti-lynching bills
Langston Hughes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Weldon Johnson
Ernest Hemingway
an immigrant from Jamaica who believed that African Americans should build a separate society
Marcus Garvey
Louis Armstong
Sinclair Lewis
James Weldon Johnson
a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Renaissance
Charleston Renaissance
Women's Renaissance
a novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant whose militant verses urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination
Louis Armstrong
Paul Robeson
Sinclair Lewis
Claude McKay
Missouri born person who was the movement's best-known poet whose poems described the difficult lives of working-class African Americans
Paul Robeson
Langston Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
Claude McKay
the son of a one-time slave became a major dramatic actor
Paul Robeson
Duke Elliington
Louis Armstrong
Claude McKay
trumpet player who is famous for his astounding sense of rhythm and his ability to imporvise
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Paul Robeson
Claude McKay
a jazz pianist and composer who led his ten-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club
Louis Armstrong
Paul Robeson
Duke Ellington
Georgia O'Keaffe
a female blues singer who was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Zora Neale Hurston
Bessie Smith
Georgia O'Keaffe
A negative effect that accompanied women in the 1920's
pressure of juggling work and family
their husbands never let them go anywhere
they had trouble sleeping
What was the most powerful communications medium to emerge in the 1920's?
televison
morse code
microwave
radio
When was the first movie released with sound?
1927
1921
1915
1923
What was the first movie released with sound?
Blade Trinity
The Jazz Singer
Harry the Ape
The Babbitt
Who celebrated the simple, dignified lives of people such as the immigrant farmers of Nebraska in "My Antonia"?
Ernest Hemingway
Willa Cather
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edith Wharton
The 18th Amendment dealt with
right to bear arms.
right to vote for blacks.
prohibition.
freedom of speech.
How many speakeasies did Al Capone own?
2500
10
10,000
350
What city was the home of Al Capone's criminal empire?
New York
Chicago
Las Vegas
New Jersey
In 1922, how many radio stations were in operation in the United States?
175
300
600
500
What were some slang expressions in the 1920's
screwy
cranked
cool
ritzy
crush
Which of the following was NOT a song in the 1920's?
Blue Skies
Blue Sued Shoes
Makin Whoopie
Who was the first woman to swim the English Channel?
Amelia Earhart
Gertrude Ederle
Jackie Robinson
Helen Wills
Who founded the NNL (Negro National League)
Andrew "Rube" Foster
Jackie Robinson
Babe Ruth
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlatnic?
Helen Wills
Amelia Earhart
Georgia O'Keaffe
Charles Lindbergh
What year and accomplishing what feat did Babe Ruth become a legend?
1927 - played two different positions on the team
1928 - throwing 60 strike outs
1928 - hit 65 home runs
1927 - hit 60 home runs
Whose nickname was "Little Miss Poker Face"?
Lucielle Ball
Helen Wills
Gertrude Ederle
Amelia Earhart
What year was the first transcontinental airmail service in the U.S.?
1930
1920
1919
1929
Amelia Earhart flew from ___ to ___.
New Foundland; Ireland
New York; Paris
Cleveland; Ireland
Disney's first animated movie was
Mickey meets Minnie
Steamboat Mickey
Steamboat Billie
Steamboat Willie
A jazz pianist and composer, known as _____, led his ten-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club.
Paul Robeson
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Claude McKay
September 22, 1927 50 million Americans sat listening to their radios to the fight between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, who won.
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
