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The Roaring Twenties Test STUDY GUIDE Test: 3/17-18, 2015
This test will comprise of 5 matching worth 2 pts. each, 18 multiple choice worth 3 pts. each, 10 fill in the graphic
organizer worth 1 pt. each, 10 fill in the blank worth 2 points each and one short answer worth 6 points (the SOL sheets
will help).
1. Communism economic system where all property is owned by society as a whole
2. Capitalism economic system where property & production of goods is owned by people (you are
responsible for your earning money)
3. Credit buying goods over time; buy now pay later
4. suburbs communities just outside of the city
5. The Scopes Trial a trial testing the validity of a Tennessee law that outlawed teaching Darwin’s
theory of evolution
6 Sacco & Vanzetti two Italian anarchist immigrants who were wrongly convicted of murder and
sentenced to death at the height of the Red Scare; set of nativism
7. KKK hate group that wore sheets and hoods; they hated Af. Am., Immigrants, Catholics, & Jews;
membership in the 1920s grew
8. 18th Amendment Prohibition in 1919; repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933
9. Harlem Renaissance During the 1920s African American artists, writers and musicians based in
Harlem revealed the freshness and variety of Af. Am culture.
10. The Red Scare The fear of Communism in the 1920s
11. The Great Migration Movement of 500,000 Af. Am. from the south to the north in the 1920s
12. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone 1876
13. Thomas Edison pioneered the light bulb 1879
14. Al Capone & organized crime gangster from Chicago who sold illegal alcohol and made millions; this
was the beginning of organized crime
15. Nativism a belief that native born Americans are better than immigrants
16. Jazz unique American music blend that started in New Orleans by Af. Americans
17. Speakeasies illegal bars during Prohibition; you needed a password to get in
18. Flapper nickname for women in the 1920s who bobbed their hair, wore shorter dresses, danced,
and went to speakeasies
19. Electrification brought electric power to the cities, and later rural areas
20. Georgia O’Keeffe painter who painted urban scenes, the southwest and flowers
21. Langston Hughes author & poet who wrote about life of Af. Americans during the Harlem
Renaissance
22. Duke Ellington Af. Am. musician and jazz composer
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23. Aaron Copland and George Gershwin famous American composers
24. Charles Lindbergh first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
25. Jacob Lawrence painter who portrayed Af. Am. during the Great Migration
26. Louis Armstrong famous jazz musician and trumpeter of the Harlem Renaissance
27. Bessie Smith famous blues singer of the Harlem Renaissance
28. F. Scott Fitzgerald famous author who wrote about the 1920s and the jazz age
29. John Steinbeck famous author who wrote about migrant workers and The Great Depression