Welcome to the 1920S

Name:______Date:______Welcome to the 1920s 1. The 1920s were called the “______20s” and “The Wonderful Age of ______” a. End of ______b. Prosperous c. Confident in ability to ______d. upbeat 2. Music: Jazz and Blues a. King Oliver and Louis Armstrong created ______a.i. Played in ______a.ii. Louis Armstrong created ______: nonsense vocals that go with music b. Bessie Smith queen of ______. c. Dance c.i. Charleston lead to term ______. 3. Fashion a. Women flappers: wore short ______&______. a.i. Asked ______out ii. Voted iii. Older generation called them ______iv. Worked b. Men: copied ______& Gangsters 4. Sports a. Babe Ruth – baseball b. Red Grange “Galloping Ghost” - football 5. Gangsters a. Fought ______b. Al Capone 6. Travel a. ______model T and ______line. b. Amelia Earhart flew across ______. 7. New Inventions a. Band-aids b. Kleenex c. zippers d. welch’s e. wrigley’s f. Eskimo pie 8. Entertainment a. Radio was the main form of entertainment listened to ______& music. b. Popular songs: b.i. “California, Here I Come!” by ______, b.ii. “Rhapsody in Blue” by ______, b.iii. “It Had to Be You.” &“Yes, Sir! That’s My Baby!” by Carlton Coon and Joe Sanders. c. ______was added to movies for the first time d. ______sitting e. Cartoons e.i. ______ii. ______iii. ______iv. ______f. Toys and Games f.i. ______ii. ______f.ii. ______iv. ______Match the following terms to their meaning. 1. All wet ______a. Leave

2. Applesauce ______b. Cool

3. The Big Cheese ______c. Ok

4. The Cat’s Meow______d. The boss; the most important person

5. Cheaters ______e. Wonderful

6. Jake ______f. Describes a wrong idea or person

7. Dapper ______g. An old car

8. Dogs ______h. Movies with sound

9. Hebbie Jebbies ______i. The best; something splendid

10. Jalopy ______j. Have a great time

11. Pushover ______k. Eyeglasses

12. Scram ______l. What you say when you are angry

13. Swell ______m. Feet

14. Upchuck ______n. Someone easily convinced

15. Whoopie ______o. A scary nervous feeling

16. Talkies ______p. vomit

Reading Comprehension Questions (8 min): Read page 122-123in your Coach Book and answer the following questions.

1. Cotton production in the south suffered at the end of WWI because of decreased demand and then again 1921-1922 when the ______destroyed almost half the cotton crops in the south. 2. This small beetle destroys the plant by depositing ______in the bud where the larva feed on the cotton boll. 3. The economic stress of the boll weevil infestation and the ______which struck the west and south made the life of a farmer difficult during the 1920’s. 4. Soil in the south was overused from years of extensive ______production while soil in the west was overused in an effort to provide enough wheat to feed our troops during WWI. 5. This overused southern soil and “Dust Bowl” conditions in the west forced many farmers to leave for factory jobs in overcrowded cities (and lead to a “farming depression” even before the ______.) 6. Our economy has several ______and troughs, but when our economy has a severe trough it is called a ______. 7. During times of depression,______is high, real estate looses it’s value, and businesses suffer greatly or completely fail. 8. The Great Depression was caused by several things such as an agricultural depression in the south caused by the ______(2 words), a persistent drought in the west which created a ______(2 words), struggling economy in Britain where unemployment was rampant, and a crippling debt in ______which they were forced to pay after WWI. 9. But in America, optimism was high during the “roaring 20’s” as people purchased expensive homes and cars on credit and businesses made large profits while the consumers plunged into crippling ______. 10. However, consumer confidence remained so high that people borrowed money to buy shares in the ______market. 11. This all came to a sudden halt on October 29th, 1929 (known as ______) as many people tried to sell these stocks at once, which resulted in a downward spiral of the value of the stocks. 12. Banks could not get payments for ______they issued (which was the money that people had tied up in debt or the banks had used the cash to make more loans…soon the banks ran out of money. 13. These events caused a ten year period (known as the ______) where jobs were lost by the millions, thousands of businesses and banks failed, and people had to sell most of their possessions just to survive.