1920’s Scavenger Hunt
Name: ___________________________________ Date: ______________
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Handwrite your answers on lined paper
1. Using Google, describe three major events of the 1920’s.
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b.
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2. What was the average cost of a car was in 1925?
3. Is this higher or lower than the price in 1908?
4. This was because of what manufacturing development?
5. Who was responsible for the development mentioned above?
6. Describe five aspects/characteristics of flapper fashion.
7. What was the most popular form of music in the 1920s?
8. What new dance burst onto the scene in 1923?
9. What is the Lindy hop? Where did the name originate from?
10. How did the role of women change in the 1920’s? Give three examples and
describe them.
a.
b.
c.
11. On October 29, 1929, what economic event happened that changed the United
States for years?
12. What baseball team did “Babe” Ruth play for in 1917? 1927?
13. Click on Biography on the above website. How did he get his nickname?
14. What soft drink was invented in 1929?
15. The famous US Route 66 was built in what year and connected what two cities?