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Chapter 12 Worksheet
Directions: Please read Chapter 12 in your textbook and then answer the following
questions.
Section 1
1. How did high schools change in the 1920's?
2. What revolutionized advertising in the 1920's?
3. What did most Americans think of installment buying in the 1920's?
4. What made the youth the best selling image of the 1920's?
5. What was needed for the machines created during the 1920's?
6. How did indoor faucets change living in the 1920's?
7. What is a "fad"?
8. What is an installment plan?
9. What is the Babbitt?
10. What was a "flapper"?
Section 2
1. Why did Americans idolize sports figures?
2. Who was Louis Armstrong?
3. Who was Gertrude Stein?
4. What are syndicates?
5. Who was Bessie Smith?
6. Who was Charles Lindbergh?
7. Due to having more time what did people begin to do in the 1920's?
8. What did Alain Locke urge African Americans to do?
9. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
10. What were the movies of the 1920's like?
11. How did jazz come to Northern cities?
12. What did movie goers see at the end of movies in the 1920's?
13. What was on the roof of many tenements?
14. What did the Harlem Renaissance proclaim for African Americans?
Section 3
1. What group refused to obey Prohibition?
2. What was the typical person in power like during the 1920's?
3. What are 3 reasons prohibition was hard to enforce?
4. What did Fundamentalists believe?
5. Where did Fundamentalists spread their ideas to?
6. What was the result of the Scopes Trial?
7. Who began to engage in illegal activity during Prohibition?
8. Why did John Scopes agree to go to court?
9. Who made, sold, or transported liquor during Prohibition?