THE ROARING TWENTIES
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What did President Harding want to return to America?
By what two names were the 1920s known as?
THE THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
3. What shift helped increase American workers’ productivity?
4. What did American industries begin to make?
FORDISM
5. What did Henry Ford pioneer?
6. After the assembly line was introduced, how long did it take to build a car?
7. What allowed people to afford to buy a car in the 1920s?
8. How did GM compete with Ford?
9. What shift did the car accelerate in America?
URBANIZATION
10. By 1920 where did most Americans live?
11. List two ways the car changed the American landscape.
12. List two ways the car changed Americans’ social behavior.
REVOLUTION IN MANNERS & MORALS
13. List two ways the lives of women changed in the 1920s.
14. List two ways women challenged traditional morals during the 1920s.
THE ELECTRICAL HOME
15. What did electricity allow people to buy?
16. How did the new electrical appliances change the lives of women in the 1920s?
ADVERTISING & THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS
17. When was advertising first used successfully?
18. Where was advertising used in the 1920s?
19. Why did companies need to advertise in the 1920s?
THE BEAUTY INDUSTRY
20. How did beauty supply companies sell products in the 1920s?
THE SILVER SCREEN
21. What did young men learn from the movies?
22. Who were the most famous movie stars of the 1920s?
23. What new music provided the sound of the 1920’s?
THE JAZZ AGE
24. Where was jazz born?
25. Where was the center of black commerce & culture in the 1920s?
26. Who headed the UNIA?
27. What was the name of the artistic & literary movement by African-Americans during the 1920s called?
28. What were illegal bars called?
29. What was the name of the most famous club in Harlem?
-Who became famous playing there?
30. Who was “The Empress of the Blues”?
THE CLASH OF CULTURES
31. What type of music was attacked in the 1920s?
Why?
PROHIBITION
32. The passage of what amendment started Prohibition?
33. What activity rose during Prohibition?
NATIVISTS & FUNDAMENTALISTS
34. What group rose in numbers & power during the 1920’s?
-What two religious groups did they attack?
35. What trial began in 1925?
-What two theories were being tested?
-What nickname was the trial given?
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPORTS
36. What two boxers fought in 1926?
37. What new sport began in the 1920s?
38. Who was known as the “Sultan of Swat”?
LUCKY LINDY
39. Who was “Lucky Lindy”?
40. What was he the first to do?
41. In what year did he make his flight?
42. What did most Americans in the 1920s believe was bringing about a better world?
THE GOSPEL OF BUSINESS
43. Who said “the chief business of the American people is business”?
44. What would prosperity bring to Americans?
THE COMING OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
45. What 1920s practice would lead to the Great Depression?
46. What event triggered the start of the Great Depression?
Post movie question: Place your answer in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper.
What was the most important event, change, or achievement of the 1920s?
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Provide your claim (What is your opinion?).
Provide at least two pieces of evidence (two facts) to support your claim.
Provide your reasoning (explain how/why your evidence supports your claim).
Provide a counterargument and explain why your claim is stronger.