What was the Bicentenial - Lessons from Mr. LeBlanc



America during the 1920s Name ______________________

The Century Video

1) Where was liquor sold during Prohibition?

2) Why didn’t police close down the speakeasies?

3) Why was prohibition the perfect symbol for the 20s?

4) What was “spreading the roar” of the roaring 20s?

5) What population statistic happened for the first time in the 20s?

6) What was the big theatre you saw on Broadway?

7) How many more millionaires were there in the 20s than the previous decade?

8) What is the big music in Harlem?

9) Name two of the famous musicians in Harlem

10) Where did the big musicians play in Harlem?

11) What did Harlem represent for African Americans?

12) Why did cities become so much more important in the 20s?

13) What was the “other America” described as?

14) What did the automobile give to Americans?

15) What was the new phenomenon on the highways?

16) What new concept did advertising bring to America?

17) What percentage of convenience goods were bought on credit by the end of the 20s?

18) What was the big desire that everybody wanted to buy?

19) What were the three HUGE technological inventions you saw in the video?

20) What are you noticing about how women looked in the 20s?

21) What was the “battle heard round the world” in 1925?

22) What was the great confusion of the 20s (what did people want)?

23) What organization grew by 4 million people in the 20s?

24) Who was the biggest name in sports in the 20s?

25) How long did it take Charles Lindbergh to fly across the Atlantic?

26) What was the last frontier for people to conquer in the 20s?

27) What does it seem like the country is full of in the 20s?

28) What seemed possible by the end of the 20s?

29) How much money vanished on October 29, 1929?

30) What was happening on the George Washington Bridge in 1929?

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