20s Review

Question 1

This type of music reaches back to African rhythms, came from New Orleans & Missis. River delta

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Jazz

Question 2

It was a movement of over 2 million African Americans moving north to look for jobs

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The Great Migration

Question 3

He was a Jamaican born New Yorker who called for blacks to find freedom in Africa

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Marcus Garvey

Question 4

A nightclub in Harlem where white and black music lovers went to hear jazz

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the Apollo Theater

Question 5

Black writers, artists and musicians found ways to express themselves in this NY neighborhood

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Harlem

Question 6

This author wrote about post-war youth in the novel "This Side of Paradise"

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F.Scott Fitzgerald

Question 7

He wrote "The Sun Always Rises" which tells about the lives of Americans living overseas

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Ernest Hemmingway

Question 8

The first movie with sound ("talkie")-came out in 1927

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The Jazz Singer

Question 9

This author wrote about greed and lack of culture in small town USA

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Sinclair Lewis

Question 10

She used tales and songs of Africa to uncover the cultural roots of Afrian-Americans

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Zora Neale Hurston

Question 11

This "home run king" is one of the first 5 players inducted into the baseball hall of fame

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Babe Ruth

Question 12

These were nicknames for the 1920s that reflected prosperity and change.

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The Jazz Age and the Roaring 20s

Question 13

A new type of entertainment that first began with news of the 1920 election results

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Radio

Question 14

What is one effect of WW1 during the 1920s?

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Many young people saw the war as a waste

Question 15

Silent film star that became a celebrity "hunk"

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Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin

Question 16

He was a writer who dared people to be different and rebel against the norms of the time

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Ezra Pound

Question 17

He wrote powerful protests against racism and joyful celebrations of black music and dance

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Langston Hughes

Question 18

She was an American poet in Paris who coined the term "the lost generation"

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Gertrude Stein

Question 19

A great black trumpet player that changed jazz into solo-based music (instead of big bands)

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Louis Armstrong

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