Early 20th Century Word Scramble
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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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