Video Questions: The Century, America’s Time
1920’s The Century: Boom to Bust – Viewing Guide
1. What did the 18th Amendment push on the American public?
2. What is a speakeasy?
3. Why was alcohol prohibited?
4. How did Prohibition help increase the presence of organized crime in America?
5. What was the “roar” in the Roaring Twenties?
6. What city symbolized the new modern decade?
7. Describe how the rich showed off their wealth.
8. What part of New York was the capital of jazz?
9. How was jazz music different than previous music forms?
10. What occurred during the Harlem Renaissance?
11. How did African Americans respond to/with the Harlem Renaissance?
12. Describe how science and technology changed the landscape of America.
13. List two ways modern automobile changed daily life.
14. How did credit change the way people spent their money?
15. How did the radio become a national phenomenon?
16. Describe how the new/modern woman (“flapper”) of the 1920’s behaved.
17. How did the Scopes Trial highlight the clash between science and religion?
18. Describe how and why the KKK grew so rapidly in the 1920’s.
19. How did sports heroes alter 1920’s American culture?
20. What did Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic represent?
21. What happened to the stock market in October 1929? How did it affect the American people?
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