The Roaring Twenties Review
Fill in the Blank: Use the words from the word bank to fill in the blank.
Credit
Labor-saving products
Prohibition
Bootlegger
Speakeasy
Flapper
Economic boom
21st Amendment
Radio
1. FLAPPER a carefree women who goes against traditional value
2. 21ST AMENDMENT repealed prohibition
3. BOOTLEGGER a person who makes made and smuggled alcohol and promoted organized
crime
4. SPEAKEASY an illegal bar
5. CREDIT is another name for buy now and pay later
6. RADIO a technology made possible because of electricity
7. 1920-1929, the ECONOMIC BOOM following World War I
8. LABOR-SAVING PRODUCTS that save time for work and increase leisure activity
9. PROHIBITION a ban on production, sale, and consumption of alcohol
Use the graph to answer the questions:
10. What is the trend (pattern) of
families with radios from 1922-1929?
INCREASED
Millions of Families with Radios
Families with Radios, 1922-1929
12
10
8
11. What information is on the
vertical axis on the graph?
MILLIONS OF FAMILIES WITH
RADIOS
6
4
2
0
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
Year
1927
1928
1929
12. How many families had radios in
1927?
7 MILLION FAMILIES
13. How many more radios were owned in 1929 than 1927?
3 MILLION MORE RADIOS WERE OWNED IN 1929 THAN IN 1927.
1. What was the Great Migration North?
a. the movement of farmers to the North
b. African Americans who traveled to northern
cities
c. an attempt to spread southern technologies
d. a change in temperature that hurt crops for
farmers
2. What poet wrote about African American unique
cultural experiences?
a. Jacob Lawrence
b. F Scott Fitzgerald
c. Langston Hughes
d. Georgia O’Keeffe
3. Who chronicled the Great Migration North
through art?
a. Georgia O’Keefe
b. Bessie Smith
c. Lois Mailou Jones
d. Jacob Lawrence
4. Which amendment to the Constitution of the
United States repealed Prohibition?
a. 18th Amendment
b. 19th Amendment
c. 20th Amendment
d. 21st Amendment
5. Musicians Aaron Copland and George Gershwin
wrote –
a. uniquely American music
b. poetry about industrialization
c. rhythm and blues music
d. novels about immigration
6. A constitutional amendment that made it illegal to
manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic
beverages was called –
a. the New Deal
b. Suffrage
c. Prohibition
d. Bootlegging
7. Which cultural leader of the 1920s and 1930s
most likely painted this picture?
a. Jacob Lawrence
b. Langston Hughes
c. Georgia O’Keeffe
d. F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. John Steinbeck portrayed the strength of which
group of people during the 1930s?
a. Workers from the Great Depression
b. African Americans
c. women
d. child laborers
9. Musicians Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
played what type of music?
a. jazz
b. big band
c. classical
d. country
10. What did the Harlem Renaissance expose to
the rest of America?
a. uniquely American music
b. the effects of the Great Depression
c. the freshness and variety of African
American culture
d. Southern discrimination towards African
Americans
11. Who wrote novels about the Jazz Age?
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. John Steinbeck
c. Langston Hughes
d. Aaron Copland
12. Bessie Smith played what type of music?
a. jazz
b. big band
c. classical
d. blues