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Jayde Carr - 1920's DBQ
Jayde Carr - 1920's DBQ
Document-Based Questions:
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
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
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
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!
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.