MIni Jazz Age

Question 1

Having the right to vote in 1920 women sought to break free from_________-

Answer 1

Traditional roles

Question 2

____________,_________,and______________ became linked to successful marriages.

Answer 2

1. Romance
2. pleasure
3. freindship

Question 3

_______________ theories also affected people’s ideas about relationships expecialy his theories about human sexuality.

Answer 3

Sigmund Freud

Question 4

Some women known as flappers_____1____,___2________,___3________,__4__________

Answer 4

1. smoked cigarettes
2. drank prohibited liquor
3. wore makeup
4. and sleeveless dresses with short skirts

Question 5

________________ research led to a dramatic drop in the death rates of TB

Answer 5

Florence Sabin

Question 6

________________ believed that families could improve their standard of living by limmiting the number of children they had.

Answer 6

Margret Sanger

Question 7

Margret Sanger founded the _________________ in 1921 to promote knowledge about birth control.

Answer 7

American Birth Control League

Question 8

Birth control increased dramatically particularly in the _________

Answer 8

middle class

Question 9

Many people joined a religious movement known as _____________

Answer 9

Fundamentalism

Question 10

Fundamentalist believed the Bible was ___1____and they rejected _____2____theory of evolution.

Answer 10

1. literally true and without error

2. Charels Darwin’s

Question 11

_________the scientific theory that humans and other forms of life have evolved over time.

Answer 11

Evolution

Question 12

Fundamentalists would embrace_________

Answer 12

creationism

Question 13

____________is the belief that God created the world and everything in it usually in the way the bible descibed it.

Answer 13

creationism

Question 14

________________advertised for a teacher willing to be arresd for teaching evolution

Answer 14

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Question 15

____________ a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, volunteered.

Answer 15

John T Scopes

Question 16

At the trial_____________- a three time presidential candidate was the prosecutor representing the creationist.

Answer 16

William Jennings Bryan

Question 17

___________ one of the country’s most celebrated trial Lawyers defended Scopes

Answer 17

Clarence Darrow

Question 18

The _______went into affect in January 1920 which prohibited the manufacture and or sale of alcohol

Answer 18

18th amendment

Question 19

The _____- gave the U.S. Treasury Department the power to enforce Prohibition.

Answer 19

Volstead Act

Question 20

In the 1920s ______________agents made more that 540k arrest but Americans still ignored the law

Answer 20

Treasury Department

Question 21

People would flock to _______ which were places where alcohol beverages are sold illegally

Answer 21

speakeasies

Question 22

_________was readily availible in rural areas through bootlegging the illegal production and distribution of alcohol

Answer 22

Liquor

Question 23

______________ one of the most successful and well known gangsters of the era had many police officers judges and other officials on his payroll.

Answer 23

Al Capone

Question 24

The _______ratified in 1933 repealed the 18th amendment.

Answer 24

21st amendment

Question 25

Many artist writers and intellectuals flocked to Manhattan's _______________ in the Chicago 's South Side.

Answer 25

Greenwich Village

Question 26

Among the great writers of the time was ________ who wrote novels about war and its aftermath such as A Farewell to Arms

Answer 26

Ernest Hemingway

Question 27

______criticized society's superficiality in the Great Gatsby

Answer 27

F.Scott. Fitzgerald

Question 28

IN 1927 the golden age of hollywood began with the first talking picture the ___________

Answer 28

Jazz Singer

Question 29

Famous songwriter ___________ worked in NYC's Tin Pan Alley where composers wrote popular music

Answer 29

Irving Berlin

Question 30

Berlin's famous songs included ____1____ and ____2___

Answer 30

1. Putin on the Ritz | 2. White Christmas

Question 31

The most popular comedy of the time was ___________- a radio show where the trouble of two african american characters capture the nations attention

Answer 31

Amos and Andy

Question 32

Baseball stared ____________ was a national hero even though he was a drunk

Answer 32

Babe Ruth

Question 33

Fans also idolized boxer ____1___________ who was world heavyweight champion from 1919-1926 when he lost his title to _______2________

Answer 33

1. Jack Dempsey | 2. Gene Turiney

Question 34

College footballs most famous player of the 1920s was _________ of the university of Illonios and was known as the Galloping Ghost

Answer 34

Red Grage

Question 35

________was the best golfer of the decade

Answer 35

Bobby Jones

Question 36

Night clubes and music filled the northern cities particually the NYC neighborhood of __________

Answer 36

Harlem

Question 37

Artistic development racial pride and political organization combined in a flower of african american arts knowns as the ______________

Answer 37

Harlem Renassance

Question 38

________ was the first important writer of the Harlem Renassance

Answer 38

Claude Mckay

Question 39

In 1922 Mckay's poetry collection ___________ expressed a pruod difiance and biter contempt of racism`

Answer 39

Harlem Shadows

Question 40

_______________was a protific original versatile writer

Answer 40

Langston Hughes

Question 41

________________ became a leading voice of the African American experience in America

Answer 41

Langston Hughes

Question 42

New Orleans native _________________ moved to Chicago in 1922.

Answer 42

Louis Armstrog

Question 43

_______ was an American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and that used syncopated rhythms and improvisation.

Answer 43

jazz

Question 44

Composer, pianist, and bandleader _______________ got his start at the Cotton Club the most famous nightclub in Harlem.

Answer 44

Edward Duke Ellington

Question 45

______________ symbolized soul and became known as the Empress of the Blues.

Answer 45

Bessie Smith

Question 46

Bessie Smith sang of ____________,_____________, and __________ classic themes of the blues.

Answer 46

unfulfilled love poverty and oppression

Question 47

_____________ was a style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound.

Answer 47

blues

Question 48

In 1928 African American voters in Chicago helped elect ____________ as the first African American representative in Congress from a Northern State.

Answer 48

Oscar DePriest

Question 49

A dynamic leader from Jamaica _________ captured the imagination of millions of African Americans with his Negro Nationalism

Answer 49

Marcus Garvey

Question 50

Garey founded the ______________________ aimed at promoting black pride and unity.

Answer 50

Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)