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The Roaring Twenties

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  • What industry started to become highly popular?
    Film industry
  • What are these women called?
    Flappers
  • What happened to the U.S.'s economy at the beginning of the decade?
    It was prosperous
  • What famous Spanish painter was friends with Gertrude Stein?
    Pablo Picasso
  • How was the 18th Amendment most commonly known?
    Dry Law / Prohibition
  • What American writer publisher her works at the famous U.S. magazine "The New Yorker"?
    Dorothy Parker
  • In 1920, the 19th Amendment meant...
    women finally had the right to vote
  • What event preceded the Roaring Twenties?
    The Great War / First World War / WWI
  • What disturbing group re-emerged in the South?
    The Ku Klux Klan
  • Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulker or Steinbeck belonged to what literary group?
    The Lost Generation
  • In 1929, New York and thus the whole of the States experienced...
    The Great Depression
  • What famous novel features the American Dream?
    "The Great Gatsby"
  • Who was the most famous gangster in the U.S. over this decade?
    Al Capone
  • Who wrote "The Sound and the Fury"? a) Hemingway b) Faulkner c) Parker d) Dos Passos
    b) Faulker