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Explanation:
1) What was the significance of the Scopes trial?
It showed the conflict between Fundamentalist beliefs and the theory of evolution.
In 1925, John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in his Dayton, Tenn., classroom. The first highly publicized trial concerning the teaching of evolution, the Scopes trial also represents a dramatic clash between traditional and modern values in America of the 1920s.
2) What was a result of Prohibition?
the growth of organized crime.
Prohibition led to a rise in crime. That included violent forms such as murder. During the first year of Prohibition the number of crimes committed in 30 major cities in the U.S. increased 24%. Arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct increased 21%.
3) Which of the following explains the growth of Fundamentalism in the 1920s?
Americans were uneasy about rapid social change and supported traditional religious beliefs.
4) What were speakeasies?
illegal bars that operated during Prohibition
These establishments were called speakeasies, a place where, during the Prohibition, alcoholic beverages were illegally sold and consumed in secret. In addition to drinking, patrons would eat, socialize, and dance to jazz music.
5) How did women's roles in society change during the 1920s?
Many embraced the fashions and attitudes of the flapper.
A woman of 1920 would be surprised to know that she would be remembered as a “new woman.” Many changes would enter her life in the next ten years. Significant changes for women took place in politics, the home, the workplace, and in education. Some were the results of laws passed, many resulted from newly developed technologies, and all had to do with changing attitudes toward the place of women in society.
6) Why did women have little influence on national politics in the 1920s?
Women did not have the right to vote.
Many suffrage supporters anticipated a new political age after passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Despite these hopes for transformation of the polity, today women have only begun to realize their electoral potential. Whether woman's role as voter will ultimately reconfirm the status quo or radically alter political life remains an open question.
After the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, only a minority of women registered to vote.
7) How did the movies and their stars influence popular culture?
Americans were eager to buy radios to listen to news stories and music.
This new wealth coincided with and fueled technological innovations, resulting in the booming popularity of entertainments like movies, sports, and radio programs.
8) What musical style is associated with Duke Ellington?
Jazz.
One of the originators of big-band jazz, Ellington led his band for more than half a century, composed thousands of scores, and created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in all of Western music.
9) Why did some Americans support Prohibition?
They believed drinking was responsible for many problems in society.
10) Which of the following describes race relations in the 1920s?
Race riots occurred in several cities across the country.
11) What was a theme of literature during the Harlem Renaissance?
the experience of being black in a white world
Some common themes represented during the Harlem Renaissance were the influence of slavery, black identity, the effects of institutional racism, the dilemmas of performing and writing for elite white audiences, and how to convey the experience of modern black life in the urban North.
12) The Harlem Renaissance _____.
was a celebration of African American culture
The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s, the period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art.
13) Which of the following were prominent African American writers during the Harlem Renaissance?
Zora Neale Hurston
who celebrated African American culture of the rural South.
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, known as “the poet laureate of Harlem”
14) Which of the following apply to the image of the flapper?
ankle-length skirts
strings of necklaces
flapper dresses of shorter, calf-revealing lengths and lower necklines, though not typically form fitting: Straight and slim was the preferred silhouette.
Flappers wore high heel shoes and threw away their corsets in favor of bras and lingerie.
15) Marcus Garvey _____.
organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism.
