Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___/____/___ Period: _____
Chapter 31: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”
1919-1929
Directions: Define the following vocabulary and terms:
1. Bible Belt: ________________________________________________________________________________
2. Racketeer: ________________________________________________________________________________
3. Credit: ___________________________________________________________________________________
4. Installment Plan: ___________________________________________________________________________
5. Functionalism: _____________________________________________________________________________
6. Surtax: ___________________________________________________________________________________
Directions: Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
7. Red Scare: ________________________________________________________________________________
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8. Harlem Renaissance: ________________________________________________________________________
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Directions: Read each description and supply the correct identification in the blank.
9. __________ Syncopated style of music created by blacks that first attained widespread national popularity in
the 1920s.
10. __________ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s influential first novel of 1920 that celebrated youth and helped set the tone
for the emerging jazz age of the decade.
11. __________ Legal battle over teaching evolution that pitted modern science against Fundamentalist religion.
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Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___/____/___ Period: _____
Directions: Match the person with the proper description, inserting the correct capital letter (in
capital form) on the blank line.
A. Top gangsta of the 1920s, eventually convicted of income-tax evasion.
B. The Poet Laureate of Harlem and author of The Weary Blues
C. Experimental writer whose Paris salon became a gathering place for American writers and artists in the 1920s.
D. U.S. Attorney General who rounded up thousands of alleged Bolsheviks in the red scare of 1919-1920.
E. Jamaican-born leader whose enhanced African American pride despite his failed migration plans.
F. Minnesota-born writer whose novels were especially popular with young people in the 1920s.
G. Writer whose novels reflected the disillusionment of many Americans with propaganda and patriotic idealism.
H. Italian American anarchists whose trial and execution aroused widespread protest.
I. Mechanical genius and organizer of the mass-produced automobile industry.
J. Wholesome, shy aviation pioneer who became a cultural hero of the 1920s for his path-breaking flight.
12. _______ Mitchell Palmer
13. _______ Sacco and Vanzetti
14. _______ Al Capone
15. _______ Henry Ford
16. _______ Langston Hughes
17. _______ Charles Lindbergh
18. _______ Marcus Garvey
19. _______ F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. _______ Ernest Hemingway
21. _______ Gertrude Stein
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Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___/____/___ Period: _____
Directions: Put the following events in correct order by numbering them from 1 to 5.
22. _______ Trial of a TN high-school biology teacher symbolizing a national conflict over values of religion
and science.
23. _______ Fear of Bolshevik revolution sparks a crusade against radicals and Communists in America.
24. _______ A modest young man becomes a national hero by accomplishing a bold feat of aviation.
25. _______ Two Italian immigrants are convicted of murder and robbery, provoking charges of prejudice against
the judge and jury.
26. _______ A new immigration law tightens up earlier emergency restrictions and imposes discriminatory quotas
against the New Immigrants.
The first part of this chapter describes the major social and economic changes of the 1920s. The second part
describes the cultural developments that also occurred during this time. Since the artists, writers, and others
who produced the culture and ideas of the period were living amid these the very same social changes, your
knowledge of the historical context can help you understand why they created the kind of works they did.
Directions: Answer the following questions:
27. In what ways were the movies, for all their glamour, similar to the automobile industry as developed by Ford?
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28. How did new technological and economic innovations like the automobile and social changes like urbanization
help bring about the cultural liberation of women?
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29. In what ways did the novels of Fitzgerald or musical developments like jazz especially appeal to people living
amid the social and economic changes of the 1920s? Did these cultural developments simply mirror existing
politics and society, or were they in some ways a challenge to them?
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Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___/____/___ Period: _____
Directions: Answer the multiple choice chapter questions on pages 797.
30. ________
41. ________
44. ________
47. ________
50. ________
31. ________
42. ________
45. ________
48. ________
51. ________
32. ________
43. ________
46. ________
49. ________
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Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___/____/___ Period: _____
Chapter 31 Learning Objectives
1. Explain and analyze America’s turn toward social conservatism and normalcy following WWI.
2. Describe the cultural conflicts of the 1920s over such issues as immigration, cultural pluralism,
and prohibition; and describe the rise of organized crime during the decade.
3. Describe the rise of mass-consumption economy, led by the automobile industry.
4. Describe the cultural revolution brought about by radio, films, and changing sexual standards,
and the resulting anxiety it produced.
5. Explain how new ideas and values were reflected and promoted in the innovative American
literature and music of the 1920s, including the African American Harlem Renaissance.
6. Explain how the era’s cultural changes affected women and African Americans.
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