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The Roaring 20s Worksheet
Directions: Answer the questions (does not have to be in complete sentences) for each section
of the worksheet in order to learn about key people, events, and ideas in the 1920s. On my
website, you will find a link to a document called “The Roaring 20s Resources”. The
“Resources” will help you answer the questions for each section. Whatever you do not finish
must be finished for homework and will be due tomorrow!
The Big Ideas of the Roaring 20s
1. Prohibition
a. What was the purpose of the 18th Amendment?
b. What needs to happen in order for this law to come into effect?
c. What does the National Temperance Council claim is caused by alcohol? (DQ)
d. Do you find these claims convincing? Do you think people at the time found these
claims convincing? Explain.
e. Based on this document, who is the Anti-Saloon League blaming for the sale of
alcohol during Prohibition? Why do you think they singled this group? (DQ)
2. Marcus Garvey
a. What does Garvey ultimately want Africans to do?
b. According to Garvey, why are people like W.E.B. Dubois and the Association for the
Advancement of Colored People bad?
c. What does this tell you about race in the 1920s?
3. Sacco and Vanzetti
a. What event led to the arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti?
b. What happened when the two men were arrested and interrogated? (DQ)
c. How did the newspapers/press fuel this trial?
d. What was the verdict of the trial?
e. Why do you think so many people were upset about the verdict?
4. Scopes Trial
a. Describe an “unlawful textbook” according to the Butler Act of 1925.
b. Who is Mrs. Sparks and why does she care about what is taught in schools? (DQ)
c. What is Mrs. Sparks referring to when she says “these times of materialism”?
d. Why does Malone think science is so important?
e. According to Straton, what are signs of corruption in New York and Chicago? (DQ)
f. What was New York City like in the 1920s? Why might the New York Times look down
on Dayton, Tennessee?
5. Harlem Renaissance
a. What does Langston Hughes’ poetry tell you about the experience of AfricanAmericans in Harlem during the 1920s?
b. How are the beliefs and ideologies of African-Americans changing during the 1920s?
6. Personal Research on one of the following topics: The Lost Generation, The Jazz Age,
Flappers, Organized crime/Bootlegging/Al Capone, KKK, Growth of the Suburbs.
a. Write one paragraph (5-8 sentences) explaining the importance of one of these topics
during the 1920s. Include direct quotes.