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Chapter 13
20/21st - Davis - SVHS - The Roaring Twenties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The new law made it illegal to make, sell or transport liquor. | Prohibition |
| To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden saloons known as | Speakeasies |
| People who smuggled alcohol in from Canada, Cuba and the West Indies. | Bootleggers |
| Chicago became notorious as the home of what famous bootlegger, who netted over $60 million a year? | Al Capone |
| They found all truth in the bible – including science & evolution. | Fundamentalists |
| The Science teacher who was willing to challenge Tennessee's new law that made it a crime to teach evolution. | John Scopes |
| An emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes during the 1920's. | A Flapper |
| A set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women that required women to observe stricter standards of behavior than men did. | Double-Standard |
| Charles Lindbergh took off from NYC in this and arrived in Paris 33 hours later to a hero’s welcome. | Spirit of St. Louis |
| Between 1910 and 1920, this saw hundreds of thousands of African Americans move north to big cities. | The Great Migration |
| During the 1920's for the first time more Americans were living where? | in cities rather than rural communities |
| Was considered a world of anonymous crowds, strangers, moneymakers, and pleasure seekers where the environment demanded changes in thinking and everyday life and was a world of competition and change. | Urban Life |
| Was considered to be safe, with close personal ties, hard work and morals. | Rural Life |
| One example of the clash between city & farm was the passage of the ___th Amendment in 1920 banning the production, sales, and transportation of liquor. | 18th - Prohibition |
| Did many Americans at this time period feel that drinking was a sin? | NO! |
| What was so unique about the 21st Amendment in 1933? | Only time in history a U.S. Amendment (18th) is repealed putting an end to Prohibition |
| Who was the most famous trial lawyer of the era and hired to defend John Scopes? | Clarence Darrow |
| Who was the three-time Democratic presidential nominee hired to prosecute John Scopes? | William Jennings Bryan |
| Was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American Society. | The Scopes Trial |
| What did women begin doing in the 1920's that would have ruined their reputations in earlier years? | smoking cigarettes, drinking in public, talking openly about sex, and began viewing marriage as more of an equal partnership. |
| During the 1920's many women entered the workplace as nurses, teachers, librarians, & secretaries but at the same time they | earned less than men and were kept out of many traditional male jobs |
| What contributed to the decline of American birthrates during the 1920's? | birth control information became widely available |
| As the 1920s unfolded, many features of the modern family emerged such as marriage being based on | romantic love |
| Enrollment in high schools ____________ between 1914 and 1926. | quadrupled |
| Newspaper circulation rose and mass-circulation magazines flourished with the increase in | Literacy |
| Was the most powerful communications medium to emerge in the 1920s. | the radio |
| Was a larger than life American hero who played for Yankees, he hit 60 homers in 1927. | Babe Ruth |
| Made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. | Charles Lindbergh |
| Some writers of the time period were so soured by American culture that they chose to settle in Europe forming a group called | the Lost Generation |
| What became the largest black urban community? | Harlem, NY |
| Who is considered the most important and influential musician in the history of jazz? | Louis Armstrong |
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