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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?
· Tenn. made it illegal to teach evolution. John Scopes taught it and was found guilty, but trial showed cultural and religious divide.

How does Prohibition affect the US? Who were some of its leading figures?
· Prohibition did not stop people from drinking and organized crime became involved including Al Capone.

Speakeasies- People made alcohol at home, bootleggers sold it illegally to consumers and in cities saw rise of drinking establishments.

What did Americans do with their leisure time in the 1920’s?
· Americans start going to motion pictures. In 1927 see first movie synchronized with sound called Jazz Singer.

List the stars and heroes of the 1920’s and the reason for their fame:
· Hero’s in sports like Babe Ruth in baseball, Red Grange in football, Jack Dempsey in boxing, Bobby Jones in Golf. Biggest hero became Charles Lindbergh who was the first to fly across the Atlantic solo, nonstop.

How did the role of Women change in the 1920’s?
· Women began to wear dresses with shorter hemlines, put on more makeup, danced to the latest dance craze, and generally assumed had same rights as men showing that women were moving into modern times.

List the famous writers of the 20’s:
· Writers include F. Scott Fitzgerald with Great Gatsby and Ernest Hemingway.

What African American movements came out of Harlem in the 1920’s?
· Harlem became focal point for AA aspirations and blend of cultures and traditions bred new ideas. One of those was Back to Africa campaign by Marcus Garvey who saw discrimination everywhere and thought was best course.

Describe the impact of Jazz on the US?
· Jazz became a new style of music from AA expressed their experience in US.

What other well-known artist and authors come out of the
Harlem Renaissance?
· Jazz musicians Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. Other white musicians like Irving Berlin were influenced by movement. Includes writers who explored the pains of being AA in US like Jean Toomer, Claude Mckay, and Langston Hughes.