1920's Vocabulary

Question 0

Electric refrigerator, radios, phonographs, vacuum cleaner and other devices that allowed people to have more free time. Usually bought on credit.

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Appliance

Question 1

New developments in transportation, communication, and electrification that changed American life

Answer 1

Technology

Question 2

A branch of manufacturing or any large-scale business activity

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Industries

Question 3

The US continues to create new industries and jobs. This allows for an increase in spending and more leisure

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Progress

Question 4

During the 1920s more Americans are becoming millionaires. Businesses continue to increase production to match consumer spending.

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Prosper

Question 5

Method of production in which workers add parts to a product that moves along a belt. Introduced by Henry Ford in 1913 and products are made faster which lowers costs.

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Assembly-line

Question 6

Films with sound

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Talkies

Question 7

Due to an increase in free time, people now we’re able to go to the movies.

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Motion picture

Question 8

A writer of music

George Gershwin, Aaron Copland

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Composer

Question 9

Powered machines, homes, inventions and equipment

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Electrification

Question 10

Motels, restaurants, gas industries, etc.

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Transportation-related industries

Question 11

Automobiles enabled people to travel and live out of cities

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Mobility

Question 12

Radio news and entertainment

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Broadcast

Question 13

Neighborhoods located out of cities; automobiles enabled people to live in them

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Suburbs

Question 14

Laws that segregated blacks from; prevented them from voting and sharing public areas with whites.

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Jim Crow Laws

Question 15

Mass movement of blacks moving from South to North for better jobs and less discrimination during the 1920’s and -30’s

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Great Migration

Question 16

A period of great artistic, musical, and literary developments on the African-American populations in Harlem, New York during the 1920s.

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Harlem Renaissance

Question 17

African American folk music that developed into jazz, characterized by minor harmonies, slow tempo, and melancholy words.

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Blues

Question 18

Music that originated among Southern blacks in the late 19th century; usually characterized by free improvising, strong rhythms, and unusual tonal effects on the saxophone, clarinet trombone, and trumpet

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Jazz

Question 19

The banning of all production, distribution, and selling of alcohol in the 1920s and early 30s.

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Prohibition

Question 20

The political movement to outlaw alcohol.

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Temperance Movement

Question 21

The only amendment to later be repealed; prohibited the manufacturing, sale, and transporting of alcoholic beverages.

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18th Ammendment

Question 22

Repealed the 18th amendment, meaning that making, selling, and transporting alcohol was once again legal.

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21st amendment

Question 23

Highly organized and directed group of criminals Raegan illegal activities. Example: bootleggers

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Organized crime

Question 24

People who made and snuggled alcohol illegally into the US.

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Bootleggers

Question 25

Young women in the Jazz age of the 1920s who were known for a carefree lifestyle which included dancing in illegal nightclubs called speakeasies.

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Flappers

Question 26

Illegal bars and clubs right alcohol is served during Prohibition

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Speakeasies

Question 27

Famous black jazz musician who sang and played the trumpet

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Louis Armstrong

Question 28

Famous American composer who created unique American music

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Aaron Copeland

Question 29

Famous black jazz musician who is the composer and pianist

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Duke Ellington

Question 30

Famous American writer who captured the flavor of life in the US; wrote the book, 'The Great Gatsby'

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 31

Famous American composer, son of a Jewish immigrant, whose music was embraced by the public in the 1920s. He composed 'An American in Paris'

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George Gershwin

Question 32

Famous black poet who wrote about segregation and discrimination.

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Langston Hughes

Question 33

Famous black artist whose work depicted the migration of blacks from the south to the north

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Jacob Lawrence

Question 34

Famous female American artist whose work depicted life in the cities and in the south west

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Question 35

American novelist his famous work, 'The Grapes of Wrath' presents life during the Great Depression

Answer 35

John Steinbeck

Question 36

First to test the airplane successfully in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

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Wright brothers