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Jazz Age Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| large scale product manufacturing usually done by machine increased number of products decreased cost | mass production |
| this man was responsible for manufacturing the Model T on an assembly line making it the first affordable reliable automobile in the us | Henry Ford |
| period of falling stock prices; signals investors are worried | Bear Market |
| period of rising stock prices; signals prosperity | Bull Market |
| no involvement in international politics and issues; americans wanted to be left alone to pursue prosperity | isolationism |
| Charles Darwin's theory that humans had developed from simpler life forms | Darwinism |
| fundamentalist belief that the word and humans had been created by god as described in the bible | Creationism |
| trial of Tennessee public school teacher who was arrested for teaching evolution also known as the monkey trial | John Scopes |
| established by the Emergency Quota Act and National Origins Act this system limited the number of immigrants from specific countries | quota system |
| mainly rural group that targeted blacks, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants | KKK |
| Constitutional Amendment that prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol | 19th Amendment |
| SECRET DRINKING ESTABLISHMENTS DURING PROHIBITION | SPEAKEASIES |
| people that sold illegal alcohol to consumers | bootleggers |
| amendment that repealed the 18th amendment and ended prhibition | 21st Amendment |
| radio newspaper movies and magazines; unified the nation and spread ideas and attitudes | mass media |
| film star of silent films known for his portrayal of the little tramp | Charlie Chaplin |
| american hero who flew the spirit of St. Louis across the atlantic first solo nonstop flight | Charles Lindbergh |
| young women who was a symbol of the changing american woman short hair rouged cheeks short skirts | flapper |
| relocation of millions of African Americans to northern cities in search of racial equality jobs a better life | Great Migration |
| center of African American life in new York where 200000 blacks settled | Harlem |
| african american leader who immigrated to harlem from jamaica established the universal negro improvement association promoted black consciousness or negro nationalism | Marcus Garvey |
| american music from that is basedon improvisation combiningblues ragtime and european based popular music (louis armstrong) | jazz |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald's name for the 1920s | Jazz Age |
| famous jazz trumpet player from New Orleans | Louis Armstrong |
| famous harlem nightclub where black musicians and singers performed for white audiences | Cotton Club |
| spreading of African American culture by novelists poets and artists | Harlem Renaissance |
| most famous of African American poets | Langston Hughes |
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