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WorksheetsRoaring Twenties
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 23mins
Name for the 1920s, because of the popularity of jazz-a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime
Flappers
Jazz Age
Great Migration
Teapot Dome
The _____ _______ is the fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.
(a)
Part of the "lost generation" of American modernists, her Paris apartment was a pilgrimage site for authors, painters, etc. (incl. Picasso, Hemingway, and others).
Gertrude Stein
Ethel Waters
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zora Neale Hurston
American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
WEB DuBois
Ethel Waters
Duke Ellington
Langston Hughes is:
African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music.
African American pianist, composer, arranger, and band leader from New Orleans.
African American writer who wanted to save African American folklore. She traveled across the South collecting stories.
Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI.
What is the first name of Fitzgerald's wife? She was an artist and flapper who challenged traditional values in the 1920's.
(a)
An artist from New Orleans who bridged the gap between the piano styles of ragtime and jazz, and was the first important jazz composer.
Langston Hughes
Ethel Waters
Jelly Roll Morton
Duke Ellington
A Norwegian expressionist artist who is most famous for "The Scream."
Gertrude Stein
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
Edvard Munch
Explain how the assembly line works.
A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company.
Teapot Dome
Red Scare
Flappers
Great Migration
What was the Great Migration?
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous book called?
Explain what is meant by "the Lost Generation."
Describe one artistic work (painting, song, or book) you learned about from your classmates' presentations. Explain it briefly and tell what you thought of it.
One person or concept I want to know more about from the 1920s is...
