The Roaring 20's Part 2 Review

The Roaring 20’s Part 2 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

What does the Scopes Monkey trial show concerning the US in the 1920’s?
The trail showed cultural and religous division
How does Prohibition affect the US? Who were some of its leading figures?
It made the crime rate rise and organized crime and bootlegging became more popular. Al Capone was a big leading figure in the 20's Gangster Life

Speakeasies-
Illigal drinking establishments

What did Americans do with their leisure time in the 1920’s?
Amercans started going to motions pictures and they also started listening to Jazz and attending sports games

List the stars and heroes of the 1920’s and the reason for their fame:
Charlie Chaplin Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey Bobby Jones and Charles Lindbergh
How did the role of Women change in the 1920’s?

List the famous writers of the 20’s:
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Enerst Hemingway
What African American movements came out of Harlem in the 1920’s?
New African American Consciousness

Describe the impact of Jazz on the US?
Became a a for African Americans to expess their experience in America

What other well-known artist and authors come out of the Harlem Renaissance?
Duke Ellington Langston Hughes Cab Calloway Claude McKay Jean Toomer Louis Armstrong