1920’s Study Guide Name ___________________________
Terms:
1. Prohibition
2. 18th Amendment
3. 21st Amendment
4. Jazz age
5. Louis Armstrong
6. Harlem Renaissance
7. Langston Hughes
8. Babe Ruth
9. Henry Ford
10. Charles Lindbergh
11. Margaret Mitchell
Answer the following questions:
12. How did the mass media help make jazz popular?
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13. How did jazz music reflect the diversity of the U.S.?
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14. Blues music was influenced by the musical traditions of
whom?
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15. How do you think Fitzgerald would describe the 1920’s
based on his naming it “The Jazz Age”?
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16. From where did many of the African Americans who moved
to Harlem, New York, in the early 1900’s?
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17. What message is Langston Hughes sending in this poem (on
pg. 314)?
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18. Why do you think mass media helped to increase the
popularity of sports?
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19. Why do you think that Gertrude Ederle and Babe Ruth were
as popular as movie stars?
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20. What does Lindbergh’s reception in Europe suggest about
mass culture in the 1920’s?
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