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Name_________________________Date_____________Block_____ The Roaring Twenties Test STUDY GUIDE Test: 3/17-18, 2015 This test will comprise of 5 matching worth 2 pts. each, 18 multiple choice worth 3 pts. each, 10 fill in the graphic organizer worth 1 pt. each, 10 fill in the blank worth 2 points each and one short answer worth 6 points (the SOL sheets will help).Communism economic system where all property is owned by society as a wholeCapitalism economic system where property & production of goods is owned by people (you are responsible for your earning money)Credit buying goods over time; buy now pay latersuburbs communities just outside of the cityThe Scopes Trial a trial testing the validity of a Tennessee law that outlawed teaching Darwin’s theory of evolutionSacco & Vanzetti two Italian anarchist immigrants who were wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death at the height of the Red Scare; set of nativismKKK hate group that wore sheets and hoods; they hated Af. Am., Immigrants, Catholics, & Jews; membership in the 1920s grew18th Amendment Prohibition in 1919; repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933Harlem Renaissance During the 1920s African American artists, writers and musicians based in Harlem revealed the freshness and variety of Af. Am culture.The Red Scare The fear of Communism in the 1920sThe Great Migration Movement of 500,000 Af. Am. from the south to the north in the 1920sAlexander Graham Bell invented the telephone 1876Thomas Edison pioneered the light bulb 1879Al Capone & organized crime gangster from Chicago who sold illegal alcohol and made millions; this was the beginning of organized crimeNativism a belief that native born Americans are better than immigrantsJazz unique American music blend that started in New Orleans by Af. AmericansSpeakeasies illegal bars during Prohibition; you needed a password to get inFlapper nickname for women in the 1920s who bobbed their hair, wore shorter dresses, danced, and went to speakeasiesElectrification brought electric power to the cities, and later rural areasGeorgia O’Keeffe painter who painted urban scenes, the southwest and flowersLangston Hughes author & poet who wrote about life of Af. Americans during the Harlem RenaissanceDuke Ellington Af. Am. musician and jazz composerContinued…………>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Aaron Copland and George Gershwin famous American composersCharles Lindbergh first person to fly solo across the Atlantic OceanJacob Lawrence painter who portrayed Af. Am. during the Great MigrationLouis Armstrong famous jazz musician and trumpeter of the Harlem RenaissanceBessie Smith famous blues singer of the Harlem RenaissanceF. Scott Fitzgerald famous author who wrote about the 1920s and the jazz ageJohn Steinbeck famous author who wrote about migrant workers and The Great Depression ................
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