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    This document provides 7 short-answer questions about documents related to the Roaring '20s time period in the United States. The questions assess understanding of topics like women's suffrage, social norms of the 1920s, Prohibition, racism and Jim Crow laws, and the Harlem Renaissance cultural movement. Responses are required to include specific details, people, times, places, and effects to fully answer each question.

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    The Roaring ’20s

    SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS

    Document 1
    BOOM CYCLE

    1. What are three ways in which the economy of the 1920s was typical of a boom cycle? Be specific!
    a. Share confidence
    b. assembly line
    c. new technological knowledge
    Document 2

    2a What is the subject of this map? Effective Date of Equal Suffrage


    2b How many years passed between the first state granting women suffrage and the 19th Amendment
    in 1919? 10
    2c How many states did not allow any women to vote before the 19th Amendment was passed? 5

    Document 3

    3 List three ways in which the women in these photos are rebelling against social norms.
    Showing skin
    Wearing different clothes
    Smoking
    Document 4

    If people who are known as leaders … shall in their respective


    communities become known for their defiance of some part of the
    code of law, then they need not be astonished if presently they find
    that their example is followed by others, with the result that
    presently the law in general comes to be looked upon as a set of
    irksome and unreasonable restraints upon the liberty of the
    individual.

    President Warren G. Harding's comments on morality and Prohibition enforcement,


    quoted in "The President's Appeal to Halt Law Breaking" Literary Digest April 15, 1922.

    4a What law is President Harding referring to? Revenue Act

    4b What does President Harding feel will be the effect of community leaders ignoring laws? Chaos

    Document 5

    5a In what way is the man on the left receiving an “object-lesson?” He’s getting a lesson by seeing what's

    happening on the other side.


    5b What prevalent attitude of the 1920s does this cartoon represent? Unfair Treatment

    Document 6

    I am fed up
    With Jim Crow laws,
    People who are cruel
    And afraid,
    Who lynch and run,
    Who are scared of me
    And me of them.
    I pick up my life
    And take it away
    On a one-way ticket
    Gone Up North
    Gone Out West
    Gone!

    -Langston Hughes, 1926

    6a In this document, the author states that he has “Gone” because of what reason? Because he is fed
    up.

    Document 7

    7a What cultural movement inspired the artworks seen here? Harlem Renaissance ( i think)
    7b How did this movement change other people’s perceptions of African Americans in the U.S.? The Harlem
    Renaissance instilled in African Americans across the country a new spirit of self-determination and pride, a new
    social consciousness, and a new commitment to political activism, all of which would provide a foundation for the
    Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

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