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Name
A.
Class
Date
Key Terms and People
Directions: From Column II below, choose the term that best fits each description. You will
not use all of the terms.
Column I
Column II
1. popular jazz trumpeter of the 1920s
2. collected and published folk tales of
her native Florida
3. the most militant of the Harlem Renaissance
writers
4. popular blues singer of the 1920s
5. Jamaican-born African American who
organized a “Back to Africa” movement
6. outpouring of African American culture
B.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Marcus Garvey
Louis Armstrong
Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Bessie Smith
Key Concepts
Directions: For each question below, circle the letter before the best answer or ending.
7. Why did so many African Americans migrate north throughout the 1920s?
a. for the milder climate
c. to save money
b. for a chance at a better future
d. to serve in the military
8. Jazz was
a. a musical style created by southern plantation owners.
b. a style of art created by African American activists.
c. a fashion style that came and went quickly.
d. an American hybrid of African American and European music forms.
9. The literature of the Harlem Renaissance
a. explored the origins of jazz.
b. explored the pains and joys of being black in America.
c. is largely forgotten today.
d. argued for the separation of races.
10. The sense of group identity created by the Harlem Renaissance
a. formed a basis for later progress for blacks in America.
b. was lost by the end of the 1920s.
c. enabled African Americans to form their own nation.
d. ended discrimination against blacks in America.
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