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Life in the 1920's

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Desere McCargar
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Question 1

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In what ways were women's roles changing in the 1920s?
Answer
  • White women were now able to vote and were legally equal to men
  • Women were now working and taking the roles of men due to the war
  • Women's roles had not changed at all
  • Women were able to help out during the war by actively fighting

Question 2

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What is a flapper?
Answer
  • A fashionable young woman that wanted to go all out with her new found freedom
  • An older woman that was not married
  • A widow
  • A young woman that recently became a prostitute

Question 3

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Why did some people react negatively to flappers and the flapper lifestyle?
Answer
  • Everybody agreed that the flapper lifestyle was great
  • Their rebellious behavior contradicted with the idea that a woman should be submissive/conservative
  • People thought that these flappers were evil spirits
  • Their behavior was encouraged since people at the time thought a women should not be submissive

Question 4

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Farmers were not seeing as much prosperity as the rest of the country because they were producing too much, therefore they had to sell their crops for low
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 5

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Why did rural areas decline and urban areas increase? How did the automobile contribute?
Answer
  • Cars made traveling easier so farmers spent more time in the city, adopting their culture
  • Cars had no affect on the decline of rural areas and increase of urban areas
  • Cars made it easier for city people to travel to the country and live there
  • Rural areas declined because of the dust bowl and cars provided jobs in the city

Question 6

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What happened to school enrollment during the 1920s and why did this occur?
Answer
  • School enrollment declined because families could not pay for their children to go to school
  • School enrollment increased because families could afford to give their children an education
  • School enrollment rates stayed the same

Question 7

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In what ways did the 1920s see a split between rural America and urban America?
Answer
  • Differing views on life and the ways things should be run
  • The distance made communication limited
  • People were divided due to the civil war
  • The radio hadn't been invented so people's entertainment were separate

Question 8

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What is fundamentalism?
Answer
  • A form of religion that upholds belief in strict, literal interpretations of scripture
  • The belief that there is only one God
  • A transitional state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism
  • The belief in the abolition of government

Question 9

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Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson were leaders of fundamentalism
Answer
  • True
  • False
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