Jeopardy

1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

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4. This famous baseball player hit 60 homeruns in one season in the 1920s. A. Charles Lindbergh B. Barry Bonds C. Babe Ruth D. Lou Gehrig

5. These people dressed up in costumes and showed their hatred of African-Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants by marching and burning crosses. A. HHH B. KKK C. CCC D. TTT

6. Charles Lindbergh is famous because he was the first person to _________. • A. fly solo across the Pacific Ocean • B. fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean • fly across the Pacific Ocean • fly across the Atlantic Ocean

7. This describes a group of African-American writers, artists, and musicians who lived in a neighborhood in New York in the 1920s. _Harlem Renaissance_

8. One of the most important reasons many African-Americans moved north in the Great Migration was ________. • art • jobs • weather • movies

9. A neighborhood in New York City where many African-American artists, writers, and musicians lived. • Brooklyn • Queens • Harlem • the Bronx

10. The man in the picture below led a revolution in which country? • Poland • China • France • Russia

11. Russia and some other nations formed a larger, communist nation named _______. • the Soviet Union • the Russian Federation • the European Union • Commuland

12. Americans wanted the United States to be _________ _____Europe after the war. • united with • isolated from • allied with • fighting against

13. Few Asians and people from southern and eastern parts of Europe were allowed to immigrate to the United States in the 1920s because ________. • of World War I and the fear of communism • they didn’t want to come • there were not enough jobs • housing was so poor

14. new inventions • for example: iPod, hybrid cars • prosperity • technological innovations • social unrest • turmoil

15. a lot of money • for example: Hong Kong is a city of _______. • turbulence • social tension • prosperity • migration

16. racism between groups of people • for example: how Germans felt toward Jews during WWII • racial intolerance • racial tolerance • movement • migration

17. A group of people working together • for example: the Women’s Christian Temperance Union • migration • turmoil • movement • social tension

18. “People began to buy new machines on _____. They only paid a small part of the machine’s price.” • credit • interest • standard of living • isolation

19. In the 1920s, Americans listened to stories, music, sports, and news on their ________. • telephones • cars • radios • televisions

20. In _____ the first movie with sound was made. It was called a “_______.” • 1919 . . . talkie • 1927 . . . talkie • 1921 . . . sounder • 1929 . . . sounder

21. List an example of a new business that started or grew as a result of more Americans owning cars.

22. The fear of communism was also known as _______. • the Big Scare • the Red Scare • the Blue Fear • Paranoia

23. What is communism?

24. The _____ Amendment was a change to the constitution that prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation” of alcoholic drinks. • 10th • 15th • 18th • 21st

25. A person who makes and sells alcohol illegally is a _________. • speakeasy • temperancer • bathtub ginner • bootlegger

26. One problem caused by prohibition was . . .

27. This word could be used to describe women who had bobbed hair, wore short dresses, and danced to jazz music. • flippers • flappers • flingers • frangers

28. In the 1920s, Margaret Sanger was arrested for ____________ • bootlegging • going to a speakeasy • distributing obscene materials • voting

29. This picture shows _______.

30. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) made separate but equal facilities legal. Another word for what you see in the picture above is _______ • Racism Laws • Jim Crow Laws • Desegregation • Civil Rights

31. This is a picture taken during the ___________ of the 1950s and 1960s. • Harlem Renaissance • share-cropping • Civil Rights Movement • Rebirth

32. Langston Hughes wrote: “I am the darker brother./They send me to eat in the kitchen/When company comes,/But I laugh,/And eat well,/And grow strong.” • This shows that • African-Americans were often ignored and treated poorly by whites, but that they were changing their approach to dealing with racism and beginning to celebrate their culture and contributions to society • African-Americans did not own their own houses, but this didn’t bother them • Whites were becoming more accepting of blacks and were beginning to accept all of the contributions African-Americans had made to making America a strong country

33. “We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting.” What do these words of W.E.B. DuBois mean?

34. The Simpsons Final Jeopardy Make your wager

35. Use your vocabulary: In Homer vs. the 18th Amendment, Homer becomes a (1)_bootlegger_. When he runs out of beer, he makes (2)_bathtub_ _gin___. Finally, we learn that the (3)_Prohibition_ law had been repealed. Homer goes free.