1920s Review!

Question 1

The forbidding of alcohol sales and manufacturing throughout the 20s was called:

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 2

This genre of music started in the South as a mix of spirituals, folk songs, slave work songs, hymns and dance music:

Accepted Answer

Blues

Question 3

This historical event on October 29, 1929, also called "Black Tuesday," sent the US into the Great Depression:

Accepted Answer

Stock Market Crash

Question 4

This trumpeter and gravely singer from New Orleans, nicknamed Satch and Pops, and sang "What a Wonderful World"

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 5

These song&#x27;s lyrics are about London&#x27;s legendary serial killer, Jack the Ripper and recorded by many different artists:

Accepted Answer

Mack the Knife

Question 6

He combined classical and jazz styles to compose "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris."

Accepted Answer

George Gershwin

Question 7

This piano player created the "stride piano" style and was the first African-American to write a hit Broadway musical:

Accepted Answer

Fats Waller

Question 8

This form of listening to music hit Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1920 and swept the nation by 1922:

Accepted Answer

radio

Question 9

She&#x27;s the Empress of the Blues and was the highest paid of her time. Started out as an orphan performing the street.

Accepted Answer

Bessie Smith

Question 10

The 1920s decade is often called:

Accepted Answer

The Roaring 20s

Question 11

Underground night clubs during Prohibition that illegally sold alcohol and featured jazz music and dancing were called:

Accepted Answer

Speakeasies

Question 12

During the 20s, jazz began to spread from New Orleans to these two cities:

Accepted Answer

Chicago and New York

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