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Directions: This is an internet scavenger hunt. You follow the hyperlinks and read to answer the questions. Write your answers on this paper and turn in when complete.
1. Use the Information Please dictionary to define “Roaring Twenties.”
2. Using the “Roaring Twenties” ThinkQuest site, describe six events of the 1920’s. Describe one event for each of the categories listed on the site.
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3. What was the average cost of a car in 1925?
4. Is this higher or lower than the price in 1908?
5. This was because of what manufacturing development?
6. Who was responsible for the development mentioned above? Using http://www.encyclopedia.com/ give three facts about him dealing with the automotive industry (you will have to search using his name).
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Entertainment
7. Check the list of slang terms from the 20s. What are at least three words that you recognize still used today, and what do they mean?
8. Describe five aspects/characteristics of flapper fashion.
9. Which silent film star was a major part of the Jazz Age and why?
10. Click on and read “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents.” What is the author trying to say?
11. How is this article similar to events in your life and your feelings towards the older generation?
12. Where did jazz originate?
13. Using the Passion of Jazz Timeline, identify three popular jazz musicians of the 1920’s.
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14. What other type of entertainment was invented in the late 1920’s?
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17. Name three stars of this type of entertainment.
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19. What was the first “talkie”?
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22. Who starred in it?
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32. Using the Internet Movie Database, tell what it was about.
Women
18. Using dictionary.com, define suffrage.
19. The Nineteenth Amendment was also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It was ratified by Tennessee on August 18, 1920. On what date did the amendment become part of the U.S. Constitution?
20. Why can we call Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton home state (NY) girls?
21. How did the role of women change in the 1920’s? Give three examples and describe them.
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Prohibition
22. Using the infoplease.com dictionary, define “prohibition.”
23. Prohibition was in force during what years?
24. What were people who made and smuggled illegal alcohol called?
25. Even though alcohol was illegal, people still drank. What were the illegal bars that sold alcohol?
26. To what social, political, and legal problem did Prohibition give birth?
27. Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by what Amendment?
Mafia
28. Where was Al Capone from?
29. In which city did Capone operate?
30. Describe Capone’s most famous killing.
31. What were some of the things Capone was arrested for?
32. What was he finally caught for?
33. How did Capone die?
34. What disease did he have?