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Question 1

The Roaring ‘20s was a decade of prosperity for Americans. What does prosperity mean?

Accepted Answer

wealth

Question 2

The period of the Roaring '20s takes place after what war?

Accepted Answer

WWI

Question 3

Eugene O'Neil, Earnest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein

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American writers during the 20's

Question 4

Famous composer of American music like "Rhapsody in Blue"

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Gershwin

Question 5

29th President, Promised a return to normalcy. Teapot dome scandal occurred during his term

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Warren G Harding

Question 6

What variety of music grew enormously in popularity in the 1920s Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Jazz

Question 7

Jazz trumpet,

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 8

Which Amendment passed in the 1920’s that gave women the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

Question 9

3 times ran for president, Cross of Gold Speech, prosecuted Scopes and attacked evolution

Accepted Answer

William Jennings Bryan

Question 10

These new technologies ('20s) helped Americans to communicate and share experiences?

Accepted Answer

Movies and Radio

Question 11

Famous painter of American scenes in the 20's

Accepted Answer

Edward Hopper

Question 12

This is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages.

Accepted Answer

Speakeasy

Question 13

What is one thing that was mass produced in the 1920's

Accepted Answer

Radios

Question 14

Jack Dempsey

Accepted Answer

Boxer

Question 15

Model "T", assembly line, changed America with affordable invention

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Henry Ford

Question 16

Duke Ellington

Accepted Answer

jazz musician

Question 17

Why is this period known as the Roaring '20s?

Accepted Answer

Economic Boom

Question 18

Laws establishing immigration quotas in the 1920s were designed to do what?

Accepted Answer

Limit the number people coming from Europe

Question 19

Zora Hurston, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes

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Harlem Renaissance writers

Question 20

Langston Hughes

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African American, writer of"Rivers"

Question 21

Sultan of Swat, Colossus of Clout, The Great Bambino, hit 60 in '27

Accepted Answer

George Herman Ruth

Question 22

Airplane manufacturer

Accepted Answer

Glen Curtiss

Question 23

Marcus Garvey

Accepted Answer

Black nationalist leader

Question 24

Prohibition did what?

Accepted Answer

Outlawed the production and distribution of alcohol

Question 25

How did American Culture become more standardized?

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Radio shared a common experience across the nation

Question 26

First flight of the Atlantic

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Lindberg

Question 27

Lawyer, defended Scopes- challenged law against teaching evolution

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Clarence Darrow

Question 28

Gangster, Chicago, Scarface, notorious violator of prohibition sent to Alcatraz

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Al Capone

Question 29

Wrote "The Great Gatsby" the novel of the twenties

Accepted Answer

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 30

What was a Push Factor of the Great Migration of African Americans?

Accepted Answer

Lynching and economic hardship

Question 31

President, Silent Cal, "Keep Cool"

Accepted Answer

Coolidge

Question 32

Mass Media helped what happen in America?

Accepted Answer

Common American culture

Question 33

A renaissance means?

Accepted Answer

a rebirth or revival

Question 34

The 19th Amendment came about because of?

Accepted Answer

Women's contributions during the war

Question 35

The flourishing of African American culture was called:

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

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