1920s Movie Guide
Decade of the 1920s was called the ________________________.
Characterized by: unparalleled _____________, rapid ____________________, artistic
_____________________, and new roles for women.
Warren G. Harding promised “a return to ___________________.
What was prohibition?
List 2 reasons prohibition was a good idea:
1.
2.
__________________ were underground bars.
Calvin Coolidge said, “The business of America is ___________________.”
During the 1920s, for the first time more Americans lived in cities than ________________ areas.
List 3 new appliances now openly available to upper and middle class:
1.
2.
3.
The most revolutionary change of the 1920s was the __________________.
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to ___________.
Flappers kissed men in _____________.
What were flappers trying to do in society?
The most popular dance of the time was called the ____________________.
Author _____________________________ and wife Zelda experienced the Roaring Twenties first hand.
_____________________________ first developed Jazz in New Orleans.
The Harlem Renaissance-artistic movement in Harlem in the 1920s involved music, ____________________,
and politics.
________________, __________________, and African Americans were largely untouched with the prosperity
of the United States during this time period.
By ___________, the Klu Klux Klan was at its peak.
The Red Scare was the rising threat of ______________________.
What was The Monkey Trial?
The Tea Pot Dome Scandal became the symbol of ___________________ in government.
Heroes, __________________, and scandals all wanted frontline headlines in the newspapers.
___________________________ was the first person to fly round trip around the US.
___________________________ rose in the 1920s due to the selling of bootleg alcohol.
What was Al Capone’s nickname?
Al Capone went to prison for ___________________________________.
On October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed. The day was called _____________________________.
The Stock Market Crash brought the Roaring Twenties to a ____________________________________.
The 1920s was the beginning of the _______________ Era.