The Jazz Age

Question 1

What time period was the jazz age

Answer 1

1920s

Question 2

Who named the 1920s “the Jazz age”

Answer 2

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 3

Flappers

Answer 3

Any girl that possessed ‘it’ (sex appeal - something a woman wasn’t supposed to exhibit)

Question 4

Jazz babies

Answer 4

Flappers who liked dancing and syncopated music

Question 5

What did flappers do?

Answer 5

Flappers drank, smoked, drove cars, these cars chatted men up and asked men out on dates.

Question 6

What did more traditional people think of flappers etc.

Answer 6

Thought this was going too far and that these young women were not responsible.

Question 7

Jazz age popular dance

Answer 7

The Charleston

Question 8

1920s slang and morals

Answer 8

In the 1920s, slang started to gain popularity. Morals were now being questioned, and youth culture was on the risk because of urbanisation. Prohibition was causing people to use line to hide bootlegging, and to keep speakeasies hidden. Other people just wanted to be unique

Question 9

1920s popular slang

Answer 9

Baloney - nonsense
cheaters - glasses
darb - excellent person or thing 
dumb Dora - stupid girl 
gaga - crazy/silly
hotsy-totsy - pleasing 
ritzy - elegant
Jake - okay
flat tire - dull/boring person
spifflicated - drunk

Question 10

1920s female clothing

Answer 10

Some clothing that was trendy back in the 1920s for females were shorter skirts, cloche hats, silk stockings, fake jewellery, furs and turned down hosiery

Question 11

1920s male clothing

Answer 11

Some clothing that was trendy back in the 1920s for males were knickers, bowties and ‘Oxford’ bags

Question 12

Dance marathons

Answer 12

Dance marathons became very popular in the 1920s. They gained popularity because it was supposed to be quick and easy money for all out of work people. The music was played slow to hopefully lull you to sleep, but twice an hour it would be picked up these were called sprints. The only real rule was no falling asleep.

Question 13

1920s games

Answer 13

Games started to gain popularity in the 1920s. Whether you were playing with your family or friends, it was a guaranteed good time. Some popular games were mahjong, Ouija boards and crossword puzzles

Question 14

Jazz music

Answer 14

.Jazz music started to get hot in the 1920s. Youth started to go out dancing at clubs and speakeasies. That’s where jazz started to get its bad name. Jazz started to get blamed for just about every problem. Parents and other adults opposed to jazz, said that young men and women that dance to jazz cause them to be morally loose.

Question 15

What were flappers considered as

Answer 15

Flippers were considered the loose morals, modern women of the 1920s. They wore short skirts bearing their arms and lower leg, hard bobbed hair, rolled down their hose and powdered their knees. The typical flapper was considerably young women and often offended the older generation

Question 16

Jim Crow laws

Answer 16

Jim Crow laws were passed by southern states beginning in the 1880s that legalise segregation between different races. This encouraged the passage of discriminatory laws

Question 17

Examples of segregation in 1920s

Answer 17

Railways and street cars, public waiting rooms, restaurants, boarding houses, theatres, and public parks were segregated. Separate schools, hospitals, and other institutions, generally of inferior quality, were designed for African-Americans

Question 18

African-Americans - jazz music 1920s

Answer 18

The birth of jazz music is often accredited to African-Americans, but expanded and overtime was modified to become socially acceptable to middle-class white Americans. White performers were used to make jazz popular in America. Even though the jazz music was taken over by the middle-class white population, it helped mix African- American traditions with the white middle-class society.

Question 19

What did jazz music do for African Americans in 1920s

Answer 19

Bigotry in American society remained a huge obstacle, but jazz music and the culture it offered Americans an unprecedented opportunity to mix, regardless of race.

Question 20

Harlem renaissance

Answer 20

A movement that represented an outpouring of African-American culture. The 1920s saw the continuation of African-American migration out of the American south to northern cities.

Question 21

Famous 1920s gangster

Answer 21

Al Capone

Question 22

Soup kitchen

Answer 22

An institution where free soup was served to the unemployed during the Great Depression

Question 23

Prohibition

Answer 23

Prohibition outlawed the public manufacture, selling, and transportation of alcohol. Its consequence characterised the roaring 20s for a great many reasons. It led to the illegal manufactured and selling of alcoholic beverages.

Question 24

What was the Wall Street crash

Answer 24

The huge wealth that appeared to exist in America in the 1920s was an illusion. The stock market crashed with the value of shares on Wall Street stock exchange in New York so low that many people lost all their money this event led to the great depression of the 1930s

Question 25

When was the Wall Street crash

Answer 25

October 1929

Question 26

1920s crazes

Answer 26

Dance marathons, beauty contests and live goldfish eating became popular

Question 27

Popular 1920s hobbies

Answer 27

Spectator sports – Americans paid to watch their favourite baseball/football teams. Individual athletes achieve celebrity status.

Question 28

Why did prohibition end

Answer 28

People just opened speakeasies and illegal bars anyway