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WHHS 1920s
Great Gatsby Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Harlem Renaissance | a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |
| speakeasy | a place where alcoholic beverages are illegally sold |
| league of nations | A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace |
| Erte | Russian-born French designer and illustrator who was a leading exponent of Art Deco in the 1920s and 1930s |
| Charleston | A fast ballroom dance in 4/4 time, popular during the 1920s |
| flapper | in the 1920s, a fashionable young woman, especially one showing independent behaviour |
| prohibition | the period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was forbidden in the US |
| Jazz Age | The 1920s in the United States, a decade marked not only by the popularity of jazz, but also by attacks on convention in many areas of American life |
| Charles Lindberg | United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 |
| Lost Generation | group of American literary notables who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s |
| Ku Klux Klan | an extreme white supremacist secret society in the US. |
| Volstead Act | an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages |
| Al Capone | Italian American gangster who ruled the Chicago underworld and was sent to jail for tax evasion. |
| Henry Ford | American automobile manufacturer who mass produced the Model T |
| Rudolph Valentino | Female fans swooned over this Italian-born motion picture actor during the 1920s |
| Scopes Monkey Trial | the prosecution of a high school biology techer, John T. Scopes, who taught his students the theory of evolution which was forbidden because it contradicted the Bible. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | murder case during the 1920s in which two Italian immigrants were charged with stealing and murdering two men at a Massachusetts shoe factory. |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the United States; His administration was marked by WWI and Prohibition |
| Babe Ruth | United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs |
| Black Tuesday | day of stock market crash: October 29, 1929, the day of the New York stock market crash that led to the Great Depression |
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