Chapter 24 Test – Study Guide (The Roaring 20’s)
Vocab:
flappers
speakeasies
Prohibition
Installment buying
bootleggers
People:
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Al Capone
Babe Ruth
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George Gershwin
Louis Armstrong
Georgia O’Keeffe
Langston Hughes
John Steinbeck
Facts:
The 18th Amendment and Volstead Act banned alcohol during the 1920’s.
John Scopes taught evolution.
Anti-immigrant attitudes may have contributed to a guilty verdict in the Sacco & Vanzetti trial.
The 1920’s was a decade characteristic of Prohibition, new freedom for women, fear of communism, and economic
prosperity.
White, Protestant, men would have been eligible for membership in the KKK.
New York City’s Harlem was the black cultural capital, the largest African American community in the US, and the
home of Langston Hughes & others involved in the Harlem Renaissance.
In 1920 the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.
In the 1920’s, farmers had economic problems because there was an oversupply of farm products causing prices to
drop.
Bessie Smith, Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence and Louis Armstrong would have all been part of the Harlem
Renaissance.
Calvin Coolidge was a Republican President during the 1920’s.
Teapot Dome was a scandal involving Albert Fall taking bribes for leasing govn’t lands to oil companies.
Radios, electric refrigerators, and electric vacuum cleaners were common household products by the end of the
1920’s.
1920’s fads included dance marathons, crossword puzzles, flag pole sitting and bobbed hair.
Automobiles changed society by allowing people to be more mobile.
During the Great Migration, African Americans left the South to escape poverty, violence, and discrimination and
they headed North and West for better employment opportunities.
“Flapper Talk” would have been broadcasted nationally via radio.
Langston Hughes wrote poems such as “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Night Funeral in Harlem.”