Roaring Twenties Quiz Study Guide
Moral Changes of the 1920s:
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Youth culture
Charleston
Slang Expressions
Flappers
Prohibition
Al Capone
Organized Crime Bootlegging
Speakeasies
Fundamentalists
Scopes Monkey Trial
Clarence Darrow
Social Changes of the 1920s:
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Athletes (Babe Ruth)
Film Stars(Charlie Chaplin)
Harry Houdini
The Jazz Singer
Leisure (disposable income)
Jazz
Hollywood
The Lost Generation
Economic Changes:
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Henry Ford
Assembly Lines
New Technology
Radio
False Prosperity
Laissez Faire Politics
Credit/Installment Plans
Consumerism
The Stock Market
Political Changes:
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Nativism
Immigration Quotas (Johnson-Reed Act)
Palmer Raids
Red Scare (Bolshevik Revolution)
Presidents Harding and Coolidge
Laissez Faire Politics
Ohio Gang
Teapot Dome Scandal
Harlem Renaissance:
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UNIA and Marcus Garvey
Jazz musicians (Armstrong, Smith, Ellington, etc)
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Great Migration
Cotton Club
NAACP
Revival of the KKK
Birth of a Nation
“Red Summer” of 1919
Key Questions to Consider:
1) To what extent were the 1920’s a modern decade? What is difference between modernity and
traditionalism?
2) What underlying issues were going on within U.S. society that show that this was not truly an era of
prosperity and equality?
3) How do the 1920s reflect a cultural gap between the older and younger generations? How do we still
see this trend today?