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HAPTER 21
TERMS & NAMES
For each term or name below, write a sentence explaining its
historical significance or contribution to the 1920s.
1. bootlegger 6. George Gershwin
2. fundamentalism 7. F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. flapper 8. Zora Neale Hurston
4. double standard 9. Harlem Renaissance
5. Charles A. Lindbergh 10. Paul Robeson
MAIN IDEAS
Use your notes and the information in the chapter to answer
the following questions.
Changing Ways of Life (pages 640–645)
1. Why was heavy funding needed to enforce the Volstead Act?
2. Explain the circumstances and outcome of the trial of the
biology teacher John Scopes.
The Twenties Woman (pages 646–649)
3. In what ways did flappers rebel against the earlier styles and
attitudes of the Victorian age?
4. What key social, economic, and technological changes of the
1920s affected women’s marriages and family life?
Education and Popular Culture (pages 652–657)
5. How did high schools change in the 1920s?
6. Cite examples of the flaws of American society that some
famous 1920s authors attacked in their writing.
The Harlem Renaissance (pages 658–663)
7. What do the Great Migration and the growth of the NAACP
and UNIA reveal about the African-American experience in
this period?
8. What were some of the important themes treated by African-
American writers in the Harlem Renaissance?
CRITICAL THINKING
1. USING YOUR NOTES Create a concept web like the one below,
and fill it in with trends in popular culture that emerged in the
1920s and continue to influence American society today.
2. EVALUATING In “Literature in the Jazz Age,” on pages
664–665, you read excerpts from works written in the 1920s
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Langston
Hughes. How might a phrase current at the time—“flaming
youth”—be an appropriate and accurate phrase to describe
the young people and voices in these excerpts?
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CHAPTER ASSESSMENT
Enduring Cultural Trends of
the Roaring Twenties
• Movies become a national
pastime.
• Radio is a prime source of
news and entertainment.
• Americans celebrate sports
heroes.
NEW FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT
NEW ATTITUDES AND FASHION
NEW MOVEMENTS IN THE ARTS
• Composers create distinctly
American music.
• Writers explore new
topics.
• Artists depict life
in the 1920s.
• Harlem Renais-
sance flourishes.
• Industrialization leads
to growth of big cities.
• African Americans
continue to move
North.
• Cities struggle with
prohibition and
organized crime.
• Changing attitudes
toward women allow
them greater freedoms.
• Americans adopt
radical new fashions
and style.
• Traditional and modern
ideals collide.
PROBLEMS OF URBANIZATION
VISUAL SUMMARY
