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SPEAKEASIES,  | Where did people illegally drink alcohol during Prohibition? |
| BOOTLEGGERS | Who smuggled illegal alcohol and promoted organized crime? |
GREAT MIGRATION NORTH,  | The migration of African Americans to northern cities in search of jobs during the early 20th century was known as - |
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE,  | Who was an artist known for urban scenes and later, paintings of the Southwest, including flower portraits? |
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD,  | Who wrote novels, including The Great Gatsby, about the Jazz Age of the 1920s? |
JOHN STEINBECK,  | Who wrote Grapes of Wrath, a novel about migrant farmworkers, forced by the Dust Bowl of the 1930's to abandon their farms? |
| AARON COPLAND & GEORGE GERSHWIN | Who were two 20th century composers who wrote uniquely American music? |
| HARLEM RENAISSANCE | A movement of African American artists, writers, and musicians based in Harlem was known as the - |
JACOB LAWRENCE,  | Who chronicled in his paintings the experiences of African Americans during the Great Migration north? |
LANGSTON HUGHES,  | Who combined the experiences of his African and American cultural roots in his poetry? |
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS,  | Who invented the airplane? |
HENRY FORD,  | Who was one of the first to use the assembly line to lower production costs and make his product affordable? |
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL,  | Who invented the telephone? |
| ELECTRIFICATION | What changed American life by providing power for labor-saving products like washing machines, stoves, lighting, and the radio? |
| People over-speculated on stocks, using borrowed money that they could not repay when stock prices crashed; The Federal Reserve failed to prevent the collapse of the banking system; High tariffs strangled international trade. | What were some of the causes of the Great Depression? |
| THE NEW DEAL | What was the name of FDR's program to help the nation recover from the Great Depression? |
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT,  | Who proposed the New Deal to help the economy recover from the Great Depression? |
| Greater mobility; Creation of jobs; Growth of transportation-related industries (road construction, oil, steel, automobile); Movement to suburban areas | What were some of the results of improved transportation brought about by the affordable automobile? |
| The increased availability of telephones; the development of the radio; development of movies. | What changed communications in the early 20th century? |
| The radio | What became a popular source of entertainment and news in the 1920's and 30's? |
| Prohibition | What was an unsuccessful reform that attempted to change how people lived? |
| Prohibition was imposed by a constitutional amendment that made it illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverages. | What was Prohibition? |
| Speakeasies; bootleggers | What were some of the unwanted results of Prohibition? |
| The movement of African Americans from southern farms to northern cities in search of better jobs. | What was the Great Migration north? |
| Jacob Lawrence (artist); Langston Hughes (poet); Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong (jazz composers); Bessie Smith (blues singer) | Name several influential cultural leaders associated with the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Georgia O'Keeffe (painter); F. Scott Fitzgerald & John Steinbeck (novelists); Aaron Copland and George Gershwin (composers) | Name several influential cultural leaders or the 1920's and 1930's who were NOT associated with the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Bessie Smith | Who was a Harlem Renaissance blues singer? |
| Jobs for African Americans in the South were scarce and low paying; African Americans faced discrimination and violence in the South. | What caused the Great Migration north? |
| Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong | Who were two jazz composers of the Harlem Renaissance? |
| A large numbers of banks and businesses failed; One-fourth of workers were without jobs; Large numbers of people were hungry and homeless; Farmers' incomes fell to low levels. | What was the impact on Americans of the Great Depression? |
| Social Security; Federal work programs; Environmental improvement programs; Farm assistance programs; Increased rights for labor | What were some of the major features of the New Deal? |
| Government programs | What kind of programs did FDR use to help the nation recover from the Great Depression? |
| People over-speculated on stocks, using borrowed money that they could not repay | What were people doing in the 1920's that caused the stock market to crash? |
| The Federal Reserve | What government institution could have prevented the collapse of the banking system during the Great Depression? |
| High tariffs strangled international trade. | How did high tariffs contribute to the Great Depression? |
