“Bare Bones” Review of the Roaring Twenties
1920s Life
1. The United States continued to be a world ____________________
after World War I.
2. After WWI, most Americans wanted the United States to stay
______________________ to avoid being pulled into another war in
Europe.
3. The 1920s was the era of the affordable automobile built on the
___________________ ____________________ by
__________________ _________________.
4. ___________________ industries, like auto steel, rubber, glass, and
gasoline, grew because of the introduction of the affordable
automobile.
5. The greater mobility allowed by the purchase of an automobile
caused many people to leave their homes in the inner cities for new
homes in the _____________________.
6. The introduction of electricity into homes during the 1920s allowed
many families to buy ___________________ __________________
devices that made life easier.
Progressive Movements of the 1920s
7. The ____________________ Movement worked for women’s right to
vote.
8. With the passage of the ____________ Amendment to the
Constitution, women won the right to vote.
9. __________________________ and ________________________
were suffragists who worked for women’s rights, including the right to
vote.
10.The _____________________ Movement supported the prohibition
of alcohol.
11.The ______________ Amendment to the Constitution outlawed the
manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol.
12.During Prohibition, many people went to __________________, or
illegal bars, and drank alcohol smuggled in by _________________
involved in ___________________ crime.
13.The ______________ Amendment to the Constitution repealed, or
canceled, Prohibition. The manufacture, sale, and transportation of
alcohol was legal again.
People on the Move
14.The use of _______________________ on farms meant it took fewer
farm workers to produce more of the crops.
15.Many of the farm workers who lost their jobs moved _____________
to find jobs in the urban factories.
16.The 1920s became the first time in history when more people lived in
________________ areas than _________________ areas.
17.During the 1920s, the United States had moved from being an
_______________________ nation to an _____________________
nation.
Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration North
18.Jim Crow laws began a system of _______________ segregation.
19.Segregation was based upon race and directed mainly at
__________________ ________________________.
20.________________________________ believed African Americans
should fight for full political, civil, and social rights.
21.________________________________ believed vocational
education would lead to equality of the races. He urged African
Americans to accept social separation.
22.In the 1896 court case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court
upheld segregation by ruling that “________________________
________________________” facilities for African Americans were
legal.
23.Many African Americans left the South during the Great Migration
North in search of better _______________ in the northern factories
and to escape ________________________ and
_______________________ . Unfortunately, they still faced the
same social conditions even in the North.
Harlem Renaissance
24.The 1920s was the time of the Harlem Renaissance, a rebirth of
___________________ ___________________ culture and
creativity in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
25._______________ ______________________ was a jazz composer
and musician who entertained crowds by playing his cornet with his
band.
26.______________ ______________________ was a jazz composer
and musician who entertained crowds by playing the piano with his
orchestra.
27._________________ __________________, the “Empress of the
Blues,” became the highest paid African American entertainer of the
time.
28.__________________ __________________ wrote poetry and
books about African American life.
29.___________________ ___________________, an African
American painter, told the story of the Great Migration North through
60 panels of artwork.
Art, Literature, and Music of the 1920s and 1930s
30._____ ___________________ ________________________ gave
the 1920s the nickname of “The Jazz Age” while writing about life
during that decade.
31._________________ ______________________ told the story of a
poor migrant family leaving the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma for California
in his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
32._______________ ____________________ composed uniquely
American music like Wild West ballets.
33.________________ ___________________ also wrote uniquely
American music, becoming the first to introduce jazz to the concert
halls.
34.________________ ____________________ painted urban scenes,
huge flowers, and scenes of the American Southwest.