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Who invented the airplane? | The Wright Brothers |
Who used the assembly line to make automobiles? | Henry Ford |
What was the result of affordable automobiles | Movement to suburbs, automobile-related industries, greater mobility, created jobs |
How did communication change? | More telephones, development of the radio and of movies |
Name ways that electrification changed lives. | People had labor-saving products, electric lighting, entertainment (radio), and movies. |
Who invented the radio? | Marconi |
Who started radio network programming? | Sarnoff |
Who went on the Great Migration north? | African Americans |
Why did the Great Migration take place? | Jobs in the South were scarce and low paying, to escape discrimination, to find jobs in cities. |
Name a Cultural Climate artist. | Georgia O'Keeffe |
What did G. O'Keeffe paint? | Urban and southwestern scenes |
Name the Cultural Climate writers. | F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck |
What did Fitzgerald write about? | The Jazz Age |
What did Steinbeck write about? | Poor, migrant workers from the Dust Bowl. |
Name the cultural climate musicians. | George Gershwin and Aaron Copland |
What did Gershwin and Copland write? | Uniquely American music |
What did the Harlem Renaissance do? | It revealed the freshness and varitey of African American culture. |
Name the HR artist. | Jacob Lawrence |
Name the HR writer | Langston Hughes |
Name the HR musicians. | Armstrong, Ellington, Smith |
What did Lawrence paint? | The Great Migration |
What did Hughes write about | He wrote poetry that combined African and American experiences. |
What did the popularity of HR artists do? | It spread to the rest of society. |
What was Prohibition? | It was a constitutional amendment that made it illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverages. |
Which amendment started Prohibition? | 18th Amendment |
What were the results of Prohibition? | Speakeasies, bootleggers, organized crime |