“The Century: From Boom to Bust”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN7ftyZigYs Questions for: “The Century: From Boom to Bust” 1) What happened in the first month of the year 1920? 2) What kind of “boundaries” were shattered during the 1920s? 3) Finish this sentence: “The 20s were the ‘birth scream of_______________________.” 4) What happened for the first time in 1920? 5) How was advertising “uniting” Americans? 6) What increased 400% during the 20s? 7) Where was the capital of jazz? 8) Who was “the Duke?” 8a) Who lived in New York’s “Lower East Side?” 9) What was the government spending a billion dollars a year on that knit the country together? 10) What percent of consumer goods were purchased on credit by 1927? 11) What changed for women in the 20s? 12) What was “not welcome” in small towns in rural areas? 13) What happened in Dayton, Tennessee in the summer of 1925? 14) Finish the following sentence: “People really wanted both the benefits? 15) How did many Americans express the “psychological tension” created by such rapid change of modernity and the desire to remain in the past? 16) What soared to four million during the 20s? Who seized power in seven states? 17) What happened in 1927? 18) What did Charles Lindbergh succeed in doing that six other men had tried, failed, and died trying to do? 19) What did Admiral Bird drop a stone wrapped in an American flag on in November of 1929?
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