1920s Study Guide
Use your notes to complete the study guide and prepare for the TEST on ___________
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More Affordable Automobile
Key Question: What were the results of more affordable automobiles?
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Communication
Key Question: What communication changes occurred in the 1920s?
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Electricity
Key Question: How did electricity change the standard of living in the United States?
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Airplane
Key Question: Who invented the first
successful airplane?
People and Factories Show an Increase in Productivity
Key Question: What helped make labor and factories more productive?
1. Assembly line; perfected by :
2. Mechanization: (define)
3. Factories could make products more quickly and with lower cost so products sold for
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Prohibition
Key Question: What was Prohibition and why was it unsuccessful?
Results of Prohibition
Key Question: What happened as a result of Prohibition?
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3. 21st Amendment :________________________________________
Great Migration North and Midwest
Key Question: Why did African Americans migrate to Northern cities?
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Harlem Renaissance (rebirth of African American culture)
Key Question: What is the Harlem Renaissance and did it spread throughout the African
American population?
Name
1.Jacob Lawrence
Harlem Renaissance Key Leaders
Description
2.Langston Hughes
3.Duke Ellington
4.Louis Armstrong
5.Bessie Smith
Leaders in Art, Literature, Music 1920s-1930s
Name
1. Georgia O’Keefe
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. John Steinbeck
4. Aaron Copland
5. George Gershwin
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