Roaring 20s and the Great Depression

Question 1

Who was the blues singer?

Accepted Answer

Bessie Smith

Question 2

. What was the time period when African American artists, writers, and musicians revealed the freshness and variety of t

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 3

Which amendment made alcohol legal again?

Accepted Answer

21

Question 4

Which of the following is not a cause of the great depression?

Accepted Answer

Downfall of social security

Question 5

Who was the painter who painted urban scenes and the southwest?

Accepted Answer

Georgia O'Keeffe

Question 6

Who was a Jazz composer and pianist?

Accepted Answer

Duke Ellington

Question 7

Which two composers wrote uniquely American Music?

Accepted Answer

Copland and Gershwin

Question 8

Who was the novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

F Scott Fitzgerald

Question 9

Which is not an effect of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Farmer's incomes continued to rise

Question 10

Roosevelt said, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself." What was he trying to tell the American people?

Accepted Answer

The country could survive the great depression

Question 11

Which were the 2 new forms of entertainment during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

radio and movies

Question 12

Which is not a result of the new affordable automobile?

Accepted Answer

Decrease in air pollution

Question 13

What was the time period known as when a constitutional amendment made alcohol illegal?

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 14

What was the movement of thousands of African Americans to the north and west to find work and get away from violence?

Accepted Answer

Great Migration

Question 15

Who was the novelist who wrote about the strength of poor migrant workers during the Depression?

Accepted Answer

John Steinbeck

Question 16

What were the illegal bars of the 1920s called?

Accepted Answer

Speakeasies

Question 17

What were smugglers of illegal alcohol called?

Accepted Answer

Bootleggers

Question 18

Who painted about the Great Migration?

Accepted Answer

Jacob Lawrence

Question 19

Who was a Jazz composer and trumpet player?

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 20

What power source made new household inventions possible in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Electricity

Question 21

What included Social Security, environmental improvement programs, federal work programs, and increased labor rights?

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 22

Which amendment repealed Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

21

Question 23

Which amendment made the manufacture, transporting, and sale of alcohol illegal in the US?

Accepted Answer

18

Question 24

Why did organized crime develop in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

laws against making alcohol

Question 25

Who was the poet who wrote about African and American roots?

Accepted Answer

Langston Hughes

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