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Video Questions: America’s Time—1920s

1.What happened in the first month of the new decade?
2.How are the 20s described?
3.What was happening to boundaries?
4.What kind of culture was emerging in the 20s?
5.What did it embrace?
6.What was happening in the 20s for the first time in US history?
7.What did Broadway represent?
8.Madison Ave?
9.Wall Street?
10.How much did the number of millionaires increase?
11.Who would serve the wealthy of the 20s?
12.What music influenced Gershwin?
13.Where was the capital of jazz?
14.Who were some of its performers?
15.Why was Harlem important?
16.What idea was born in Harlem?
17.How did the “other America” live?
18.How were the new technologies changing lives?
19.What would give Americans a sense of autonomy and freedom?
20.What was the government doing by mid-decade?
21.What transformed the physical landscape?
22.What brand new consumer concept also came?
23.What became the order of the day?
24.What item would be desired most?
25.When did it begin?
26.What would it become?
27.Why were women’s lives changing?
28.What happened in the 1920s?
29.How had women’s lives changed?
30.What was a lot of 20s culture about?
31.What were the more daring women called?
32.What activities sifted down from cities like NY or Chicago?
33.How did many people in small towns view city life?
34.What happened in Dayton TN in 1925?
35.Who were the key players?
36.What eventually happened?
37.What did it represent?
38.Why were many people unsettledby the pace of change?
39.Where is hatred directed?
40.What do many citizens of the south do?
41.What happened to 200 people in the 20s?
42.What was the organization capable of doing?
43.What did 50,000 of its members do?
44.What happens because of a hunger for heroes?
45.Who became household names?
46.Who was the most famous?
47.What was the “Spirit of St Louis?”
48.What did Admiral Byrd do?
49.What did President Hoover promise?
50.How was playing the stock market different than today?
51.What happened on October 29, 1929?



		Video Questions: America’s Time—1920s
		1.What happened in the first month of the new decade? 2.How are the 20s described? 3.What was happening to boundaries? 4.What kind of culture was emerging in the 20s? 5.What did it embrace? 6.What was happening in the 20s for the first time in US history? 7.What did Broadway represent? 8.Madison Ave? 9.Wall Street? 10.How much did the number of millionaires increase? 11.Who would serve the wealthy of the 20s? 12.What music influenced Gershwin? 13.Where was the capital of jazz? 14.Who were some of its performers? 15.Why was Harlem important? 16.What idea was born in Harlem? 17.How did the “other America” live? 18.How were the new technologies changing lives? 19.What would give Americans a sense of autonomy and freedom? 20.What was the government doing by mid-decade? 21.What transformed the physical landscape? 22.What brand new consumer concept also came? 23.What became the order of the day? 24.What item would be desired most? 25.When did it begin? 26.What would it become? 27.Why were women’s lives changing? 28.What happened in the 1920s? 29.How had women’s lives changed? 30.What was a lot of 20s culture about? 31.What were the more daring women called? 32.What activities sifted down from cities like NY or Chicago? 33.How did many people in small towns view city life? 34.What happened in Dayton TN in 1925? 35.Who were the key players? 36.What eventually happened? 37.What did it represent? 38.Why were many people unsettledby the pace of change? 39.Where is hatred directed? 40.What do many citizens of the south do? 41.What happened to 200 people in the 20s? 42.What was the organization capable of doing? 43.What did 50,000 of its members do? 44.What happens because of a hunger for heroes? 45.Who became household names? 46.Who was the most famous? 47.What was the “Spirit of St Louis?” 48.What did Admiral Byrd do? 49.What did President Hoover promise? 50.How was playing the stock market different than today? 51.What happened on October 29, 1929?