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Early 20th Century
Inventions and 1920's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was a Harlem Renaissance Blues singer? | Bessie Smith |
| Who invented the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Who smuggled illegal alcohol and promoted organized crime? | Bootleggers |
| Where did people illegally drink alcohol during Prohibition? | Speakeasies |
| What were people doing in the 1920's that caused the stock market to crash? | People overspeculated on stocks, using borrowed money that they could not repay. |
| who invented the airplane? | the Wright brothers |
| Who wrote novels, including The Great Gatsby, about the Jazz Age of the 1920's? | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| What government institution could have prevented the collapse of the banking system during the Great Depression? | the Federal Reserve |
| What was the name of FDR's program to help the nation recover from the Great Depressin? | The New Deal |
| The migration of African Americans to northern and midwest cities in search of jobs during the early 20th century was known as | The Great Migration (North and West) |
| Who was an artist known for urban scenes and later paintings of the Southwest? | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| What changed American life by providing power for labor-saving devices | Electrification |
| Who chronicled in his paintings the experiences of African Americans during the Great Migration? | Jacob Lawrence |
| Who proposed the New Deal to help the economy recover from the Great Depression? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Who combined the experiences of his African and American cultural roots in his poetry? | Langston Hughes |
| Who were 2 20th century composers who wrote uniquely American music? | Aaron Copland and George Gershwin |
| Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath? | John Steinbeck |
| How did high tariffs contribute to the Great Depression? | High tariffs strangled internation trade. |
| What became a popular source of entertainment and news in the 1920's and 30's? | the radio |
| What was Prohibition? | A constitutional amendment that made it illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverages. |
| Who was one of the first to use the assembly line to lower production costs and make his product affordable? | Henry Ford |
| Who were 2 jazz composers of the Harlem Renaissance? | Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong |
| What was an unsuccessful reform that attempted to change how people lived? | Prohibition |
| Harlem Renaissance | A movement of African American artists, writers, and musicians based in Harlem was known as: |
| What were some of the unwanted results of Prohibition? | Speakeasies; bootleggers |
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