Vocabulary Builder: The Roaring Twenties Section 1

Davian McDonald
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The Roaring Twenties Vocabulary Builder

Section 1
bootlegger evolution flapper

fundamentalism mode speakeasy
stability values
DIRECTIONS Read each sentence and choose the correct term from the
word bank to replace the underlined phrase. Write the term in the space
provided and then define the term in your own words.
1. Aimee Semple McPherson believed in the idea that Biblical events took place exactly
speakeasy
as they were written. ___________________________________________________
speaking out and being

Your definition: _______________________________________________________
different, having an idea
that not many like or
____________________________________________________________________
could think of
____________________________________________________________________
2. Fundamentalism, evolution, and Prohibition were expressions of some of the
values
changing key ideas and beliefs of the 1920s. ________________________________
being valuable to people; having
Your definition: _______________________________________________________
valuable, ideas can be very valuable .
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
DIRECTIONS Look at each set of four terms following each number. On

the line provided, write the letter of the term that does not relate to the
others.
d.
_____ 3. a. rural b. speakeasy c. Prohibition d. fundamentalism
B_____ 4. a. women b. flapper c. Bible d. makeup

b
_____ 5. a. bootlegger b. evolution c. Prohibition d. Volstead Act
c
_____ 6. a. values b. alcohol c. speakeasy d. science
DIRECTIONS Write a word or phrase that has the same meaning as the
term given.
a different way or place where is experienced
7. mode _______________________________________________________________
something or someone staying in its right place

8. stability _____________________________________________________________
where it belongs
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Section 2
Great Migration jazz Harlem Renaissance
DIRECTIONS Answer each question by writing a sentence that contains

at least one word from the word bank.
1. What music thrived in Harlem, and what were its characteristics?
Jazz and Blues music

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
2. Why did thousands of African Americans move to northern cities in the early 1900s?
he primary factors for migration among

____________________________________________________________________
southern African Americans were
segregation, an increase in the spread of
____________________________________________________________________
racist ideology, widespread lynching
(nearly 3,500 African Americans were
____________________________________________________________________
lynched between 1882 and 1968)
DIRECTIONS Read each sentence and choose the correct term from the
word bank to replace the underlined phrase. Write the term in the space
provided and then define the term in your own words.
3. Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and Zora Neale Hurston were all creative talents
who contributed to the major cultural movement of the 1920s that was centered in a
Harlem Renaissance
neighborhood of New York City. _________________________________________
It is a very large movement, for the

Your definition: _______________________________________________________
people of new York, they changed
the urban culture in Harlem forever /
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
4. During the major relocation of African Americans, the black populations of such
Great Immigration
cities as Chicago and Detroit rose sharply. __________________________________
this is a big movement
Your definition: _______________________________________________________
made by African American
who were moved and
____________________________________________________________________
immigrated .
____________________________________________________________________

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Section 3
DIRECTIONS On the line provided before each statement, write T if a

statement is true and F if a statement is false. If the statement is false, write
the correct term or name on the line after each sentence that makes the
sentence a true statement.
F_____ 1. D. W. Griffith produced the powerful, but highly controversial, film

Steamboat Willie, which introduced many advanced filmmaking techniques.
______________________________________________________________
T
_____ 2. Through his works such as Tales of the Jazz Age and The Great Gatsby,
Sinclair Lewis became the writer most closely linked with the 1920s.
______________________________________________________________
F
_____ 3. Bruce Barton is beloved for his many popular songs, but he is especially
remembered for his composition Rhapsody in Blue.
______________________________________________________________
F_____ 4. In 1937, after having set a number of speed and distance records as a pilot,
Edna St. Vincent Millay disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean.
______________________________________________________________
T
_____ 5. In the 1920s new media such as radio and films with sound led to the
development of a new American popular culture.
______________________________________________________________
DIRECTIONS Look at each set of four terms. On the line provided, write
the letter of the term that does not relate to the others.
b_____ 6. a. Charles A. Lindbergh c

_____ 9. a. Charlie Chaplin
b. May 21, 1927 b. tramp
c. snow c. Lucky Lindy
d. transatlantic d. actor
d
c_____ 7. a. transatlantic _____ 10. a. Tales of the Jazz Age
b. American hero b. The Great Gatsby
c. Amelia Earhart c. F. Scott Fitzgerald
d. battlefield d. Sinclair Lewis
b_____ 8. a. D.W. Griffith

b. controversial
c. Steamboat Willie
d. Birth of a Nation

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What music thrived in Harlem during the 1920s and what were its characteristics?

What music thrived in Harlem during the 1920s and what were its characteristics?

What were some of the primary factors that led to the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities in the early 1900s?

What were some of the primary factors that led to the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities in the early 1900s?

Davian McDonald

Name _____________________________ Class _________________ Date __________________

The Roaring Twenties Vocabulary Builder

bootlegger evolution flapper

speaking out and being

2. Fundamentalism, evolution, and Prohibition were expressions of some of the

DIRECTIONS Look at each set of four terms following each number. On

B_____ 4. a. women b. flapper c. Bible d. makeup

something or someone staying in its right place

The Roaring Twenties Vocabulary Builder

Great Migration jazz Harlem Renaissance

DIRECTIONS Answer each question by writing a sentence that contains

Jazz and Blues music

he primary factors for migration among

It is a very large movement, for the

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved.

The Roaring Twenties Vocabulary Builder

DIRECTIONS On the line provided before each statement, write T if a

F_____ 1. D. W. Griffith produced the powerful, but highly controversial, film

b_____ 6. a. Charles A. Lindbergh c

b_____ 8. a. D.W. Griffith

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