1920s Review

Question 1

Who is best known as a poet?

Accepted Answer

Langston Hughes

Question 2

What was the movement of Black Americans from the south to the north?

Accepted Answer

The Great Migration

Question 3

Al Capone was best known as...

Accepted Answer

the leader of an organized crime group during Prohibition

Question 4

What was Langston Hughes known for?

Accepted Answer

Poetry

Question 5

What technology revolutionized, transformed, and drove the economy of the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

the automobile

Question 6

Who was known for their piano career in Jazz?

Accepted Answer

Duke Ellington

Question 7

What amendment repealed prohibition?

Accepted Answer

21

Question 8

Who was famous for their trumpet solos?

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 9

Supporters of the TEMPERENCE movement wanted

Accepted Answer

to ban alcohol

Question 10

Black Americans left the South to escape discrimination and violence - this is a...

Accepted Answer

push factor

Question 11

The economy in the 1920s...

Accepted Answer

grew rapidly, led by a booming stock market & consumerism.

Question 12

What laws of the south enforced racial segregation and encouraged racism?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 13

Jacob Lawrence became famous based on his...

Accepted Answer

Great Migration series

Question 14

What was Bessie Smith famous for?

Accepted Answer

Singing the blues

Question 15

Black Americans went to northern cities to take well paying factory jobs - this is a...

Accepted Answer

pull factor

Question 16

What were flappers?

Accepted Answer

Women who embraced new freedoms

Question 17

The 18th Amendment led to what change in American's lives?

Accepted Answer

It was illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcohol

Question 18

Where in NYC was the explosion of culture, literature, art, and music for Black Americans?

Accepted Answer

Harlem

Question 19

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

African American culture flourished across the US.

Question 20

People who made and smuggled alcohol illegally during Prohibition were called...

Accepted Answer

bootleggers

Questions 20