The Jazz Age

Question 1

Who started the Jazz Age?

Answer 1

Young, white rich Americans

Question 2

Who did not benefit from the Jazz Age?

Answer 2

County people, African Americans, poor people

Question 3

Where did the Jazz Age take place?

Answer 3

In the United States

Question 4

When was the Jazz Age?

Answer 4

The 1920s

Question 5

What are some hobbies popular in the Jazz Age?

Answer 5

Fashion, hair, smoking, music, drinking, watching sports, dance marathons, beauty contests, live gold fish eating, getting as many people as possible into place, clubs, consumerism

Question 6

Why did the Jazz Age happen?

Answer 6

Americans wanted to enjoy themselves after the war

Question 7

Who invented the term Jazz Age?

Answer 7

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 8

Which was the richest country after WW1?

Answer 8

America

Question 9

How did the term Jazz Age spread?

Answer 9

In magazines, radio, cinema, novels, newspapers

Question 10

What was a flapper?

Answer 10

A rich, white, young fashionable woman

Question 11

What are some 1920 dances?

Answer 11

Tango, Charleston, blackbottom

Question 12

Who was Shipwrecked Kelly?

Answer 12

A flagpole sitter

Question 13

How long did Shipwreck Kelly sit on a flag pole for?

Answer 13

49 days

Question 14

How many people went to the cinema each week in the 1920s?

Answer 14

Millions

Question 15

What type of films were popular in the jazz age?

Answer 15

Talking films

Question 16

What were some popular sports to watch in the Jazz Age?

Answer 16

Baseball, American football etc,

Question 17

What did the Jim Crow laws?

Answer 17

These laws said that blacks and whites were separate but equal

Question 18

Where did racial segregation take place in the 1920s?

Answer 18

On buses and in schools

Question 19

Where was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 19

In New York

Question 20

Who took place in the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 20

Talented African American writers, politicians and musicians

Question 21

What is a famous 1920s club?

Answer 21

The Cotten Club

Question 22

Where did Jazz begin?

Answer 22

The southern states

Question 23

Who is a famous jazz singer?

Answer 23

Louis Armstrong

Question 24

What is prohibition?

Answer 24

Banning the making, distributing and drinking of alcohol

Question 26

What is moonshine?

Answer 26

Illegal alcohol

Question 27

What is bootlegging?

Answer 27

Illegal trade in moonshine

Question 28

What is protection rackets?

Answer 28

A criminal gang (gangsters) who ‘protected’ the illegal alcohol industry (ie. The speakeasy owners)

Question 29

When did prohibition begin?

Answer 29

During the war

Question 30

Who wanted prohibition?

Answer 30

Churches and the Anti-Saloon League

Question 31

Why was the prohibition law started?

Answer 31

During the war the US government prioritised use of wheat in food

Question 32

Why did prohibition end?

Answer 32

The law was impossible to enforce as too many people drank and there were too few prohibition agents

Question 33

Where was Al Capone born?

Answer 33

Brooklyn, New York

Question 34

How much did Al Capone make in a year?

Answer 34

$100 million

Question 35

Who was in charge of Chicago?

Answer 35

Al Capone

Question 36

Who set up the Klu Klux Klan?

Answer 36

Ex-soldiers after the American war

Question 37

Where was the KKK active?

Answer 37

The southern US states

Question 38

When was the KKK set up?

Answer 38

The 1860s after the American Civil War

Question 39

Who did the KKK target?

Answer 39

Former slaves (blacks), Roman Catholics, Jews and communists

Question 40

How many members did the Klan have in 1925?

Answer 40

4 million

Question 41

What was the leader of the KKK called?

Answer 41

The Imperial Wizard

Question 42

How many Americans had shares in 1929?

Answer 42

More than half a million

Question 43

What happened in September 1929?

Answer 43

American banks began to detect weakness in the economy and predicted a crash. Stock prices began to fall

Question 44

When did the Wall Street Crash happen?

Answer 44

24th-29th October 1929

Question 45

In 1929 how many banks collapsed?

Answer 45

659

Question 46

What did the Wall Street Crash cause?

Answer 46

The Great Depression

Question 47

Why did the Wall Street crash happen?

Answer 47

Americans had been buying shares on loan, the banks had lent more money than they had

Question 48

What were poor Americans relying on during the Great Depression?

Answer 48

Soup Kitchens

Question 49

Why did the Wall Street Crash affect Germany?

Answer 49

The US had lent vast sums of money to Germany and then recalled them after the crash

Question 50

When was the Saint Valentines Day Massacre?

Answer 50

Saint Valentines Day 1929

Question 51

Who was blamed for the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre?

Answer 51

Al Capone

Question 52

Why was Al Capone blames for the St Valentine’s Day Massacre?

Answer 52

Some members of his rival gang were killed