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JEOPARDY
1920s
Categories
Prohibition
100 200 300 400 500
Harlem Renaissance
100 200 300 400 500
Artists of the 20s
100 200 300 400 500
Vocabulary
100 200 300 400 500
Lifestyles
100 200 300 400 500
Hodge Podge 100 200 300 400 500
Final Jeopardy
What was The Great Gatsby?
This was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous novel about
the lifestyles of the wealthy during the Roaring
20’s.
What are speakeasies?
People met in these to drink illegal
liquor during the 20s.
What is: 1. It took away grain from the troops
and 2. They didn’t want to support German
breweries.
Drinking alcohol was considered
unpatriotic for two reasons. Name one.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Which constitutional amendment was
repealed, allowing alcohol sales to
become legal again.
Who were Temperance workers?
These people worried that people who
drank alcohol spent needed food money
and became violent. They fought to make
alcohol illegal.
What was Prohibition?
This event in history caused an increase
in organized crime.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
This man was a popular trumpet player
and singer during the 20s.
What are
musicians?
Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith were
these.
Who was Langston Hughes?
This poet wrote “Dream Variations,” “A
Raisin in the Sun,” and “I, Too.”
Who was Jacob Lawrence?
This painter created scenes of the Great
Migration.
What is racial pride?
This was the primary theme of poetry
from the Harlem Renaissance.
What are the wealthy?
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the lives
of these kinds of people.
“Don’t Choke!”
Daily
Double
Who was Aaron Copland?
Name the musician who wrote the song
you hear.
Who is Georgia O’Keefe?
Name the artist of the print shown.
Who was George Gerschwin?
This musician wrote “An American in
Paris,” “I Got Rhythm,” and “Rhapsody in
Blue.”
Who was John Steinbeck
This author wrote The Grapes of Wrath
and wrote about the lives of ordinary
people.
What is the quota system?
This system limited immigration from Asia
and Eastern Europe.
What is installment buying?
Buying on credit is also known as this.
What was the Great Migration?
The mass movement of black Americans
to find jobs in the North was known as
this.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The rebirth of African-American arts and
literature in the 1920s was known as this.
“Don’t Choke!”
Daily
Double
What is overproduction or oversupply of
crops?
This was the primary reason why
farmers faced a depression.
What are flappers?
Young women who bobbed their hair
and rolled up their stockings were
nicknamed these.
What were sheiks?
Men who wore baggy pants and
raccoon coats were nicknamed these.
What was the automobile?
This invention helped develop
highways, restaurants, tourism,
and motels.
What is the radio?
This invention by Guglielmo Marconi
changed communication in America.
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
This group discriminated against people
of other races and religions.
Who were the farmers?
This group suffered economic setbacks
in the ‘20s due to oversupply of their
products.
What is the Charleston?
This was the most popular dance of
the 20s.
What is vote?
In 1920, women won the right to do this.
What is, “It would create jobs.”?
Prohibition was repealed during the
Great Depression for this reason.
What is true?
True or False: During the 1920s, there were
serious underlying economic problems, even
though everything looked normal on the
surface.