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| print and broadcast methods of communicating information to a large number of people | mass media |
| Who invented the radio? | Guglielmo Marconi |
| Which company started the first radio station and where? | Westinghouse in Pittsburg |
| What was the first radio programming like? | music, news events, baseball scores as well as Presidential results |
| What invention helped to increase the quality of the radio sound? | vacuum tube |
| What was the name of the first talking film and who starred in it. | Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer |
| What annimated film introduced Micky Mouse? | Steamboat Willie |
| What was the nickname of films with sound? | talkies |
| How did radio help to create a common culture? | people throughout the country heard the same news, ads, and music |
| He was one of the biggest movie stars of the 1920's. He was a comedian who signature character was a tramp in a derby hat and ragged clothes | Charlie Chaplin |
| He was a dashing leading man of romantic films | Rudolph Valentino |
| He was the first pilot to fly a nonstop transatlantic flight. | Charles Lindbergh |
| What was the name of Charles Lindbergh's plane? | The Spirit of St. Louis |
| What was Charles Lindbergh's nickname? | Lucky Lindy |
| She became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic? | Amelia Earhart |
| What was the fate of Amelia Earhart? | Sh was attempting a record breaking flight around the world when she disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. No definitive trace of her remains has ever been found. |
| She was a tennis champion and was nicknamed Little Miss Poker Face | Helen Wills |
| He was known as the Sultan of Swat and was legendary for his home runs. | Babe Ruth |
| He was a college football player who earned the nickname Galloping Ghost for his speed. | Red Grange |
| He won golf's first Grand Slam and remains the only folger to get a Grand Slam for matches in one calendar year. | Bobby Jones |
| He won the title of heavyweight champion of the world and became a new American hero. | Jack Dempsey |
| She was the first woman to swim the English channel and her time beat the men's record by about 2 hours. | Gertrude Ederle |
| He coined the term Jazz Age | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| He wrote the Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| He wrote The Jungle about the meat packing industry. | Sinclair Lewis |
| She was from Nebraska and wrote My Antonia and Oh Pioneers | Willa Cather |
| He wrote The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms | Ernst Hemmingway |
| Gertrude Stein invented this term to refer to a group of writers who chose to live in Europe afer World War I. They thought the were caught in a greedy and materialistic world that lacked values or morals. | Lost Generation |
| He was a composer best known for Rhapsody in Blue | George Gershwin |
| She was famous for her paintings of natural objects, flowers, and landscapes. | Georgia O'Keefe |
| What were nicknames for the decade of the 1920's? | The Roaring 20's or The Jazz Age |
| She was the first woman to serve in Congress when she was elected to the House of Representatives. | Jeanette Rankin |
| During the 1920's it was only acceptable for which group of women to work? | Those who were single or those who were married, but did not have children. |
| What were new roles for women in the 1920's? | gained the right to vote, were elected to state and local offices, and they entered the workforce and attended college |
| What was the purpose of the 19th amendment? | It gave women the right to vote. |
| This was the term for a young woman in the 1920's who defied traditional ideas of popular dress and behavior | a flapper |
| What were characteristics of a flapper? | They had short hair, wore a cloche hat, shortened their hemline, wore makeup, and smoke drank and danced in public |
| Where did most flappers live? | in urban areas (cities) |
| term for statistics that are used to describe a population. | demographics |
| What were some of the effects of urbanization in America in the 1920's? | shift invalues, greater interaction between rural and urban populations, and more young people going to school |
| The 1920's was not a great time of economic opportunity for which segment of society? | farmers |
| What were some of the effects of growing urbanization in the United States in the 1920's? | shift in values, greater interaction between rural and urban populations, more young people going to school. |
| term for a person's key beliefs and ideas. | values |
| What values were represented by rural America? | hard work, self-reliance, religion, and independence |
| How was the Ku Klux Klan different in the 1920's than it was in 1865? | the Klan focused on influencing politics, they discriminated against Jews, Catholics, and immigrants as well as African Americans, the klan membership was no longer found only in the south but also nationwide |
| What is fundamentalism? | christian beliefs that were based on a literal translation of the Bible. They said the Bible was inspired by God and could not contain contradictions or errors. |
| This theory holds that inherited characteristics of a population change over generations, which sometimes results in the rise of a new species. | evolution |
| Who developed the theory of evolution? | Charles Darwin |
| Who was the teacher in Tennessee who was convicted of violating a law banning the teaching of evolution. | John Scopes |
| Who represented Scopes in his trial? | Clarance Darrow |
| Who was the prosecutor in the Scopes Trial? | William Jennings Bryan |
| What was the issue at the heart of the Scopes Trial? | whether or not evolution could be taught in public schools |
| Why did fundamentalists want to ban teaching evolution in schools? | believed teaching evolution undermined religious faith |
| How did many Americans obtain alcohol during Prohibition? | from smugglers, made their own, prescribed as medicine |
| This Act was a law passed by Congress to enforce the 18th amendment. | Volstead Act |
| This was a nickname for liquor smugglers. | bootleggers |
| He was a notorious gangster in Chicago during the prohibition era. | Al Capone |
| This was the name for an illegal bar during prohibition. | speakeasies |
| What was Al Capone was eventually convicted for what crime? | tax evasion |
| Where was a favorite destination in 1910 for African Americans migrating from the South? | Harlem, New York |
| This was the term given to the major relocation of African Americans from the South to the North. | Great Migration |
| Why did tensions increase between African American and white workers following World War I? | There was a shortage of jobs and many felt African Americans were taking jobs away from white Americans |
| Why was the summer of 1919 known as Red Summer? | because there was so much violence |
| The deadliest riot in 1919 occurred in Chicago. Why did it start? | There was a dispute at a public beach when a nine year old boy floated into a "whites only" area of the pool. Whites threw stones at the boy and he drowned. Riot spread throughout the city for 13 days. |
| What was another factor that fueled racial tensions? | The changing expectations of African Americans. Many believed they had earned freedom for helping to fight overseas. |
| Which part of NYC became the unofficial capital of African American culture and activism in the United States? | Harlem |
| Who founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? | WEB DuBois |
| What was the name of the magazine published by the NAACP? | The Crisis |
| The African American arts movement during this time was referred to by what term? | The Harlem Renaissance |
| Who formed the Universal Negro Improvement Association? | Marcus Garvey |
| Who started the back to Africa movement? | Marcus Garvey |
| How did the NAACP and the UNIA differ? | The NAACP was founded by African Americans and whites to end discriminatin and mistreatment of African Americans. The UNIA was founded by African Americans and wanted them to look out for their own interests and did not want white involvement. |
| Who was Langston Hughes? | a famous African American poet of the 1920's |
| This was a new form of music that developed that blended several different forms of music from the lower south. It was a wholly original form of music that focused on improvisation. | Jazz |
| Who are famous American Jazz muscians from the 1920's? | Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong |
