Answer Key for Teachers Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 7:  Becoming a World Leader
Page 7 - 17 and 7 - 18   Decade:  1920s   The Roaring Twenties
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The Pictures:
 
1.  A woman wearing the short "bobbed" hair style of the 1920s.  For many young women of that era, the style proclaimed that they were breaking away from traditional roles.

2.  Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator who flew the Atlantic Ocean alone in a small plane.  The feat won him instant celebrity and seemed to many a symbol of the American spirit.

3.  A magazine drawing made after the stock market crash of 1929.  The figure - perhaps representing a business owner or banker - is trying to prop up a business about to fall.  The falling buildings in the background reveal that the entire business world was unstable and collapsing.
Answers for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of 7 - 18.)
 
1.  ...sky, radio broadcasting...
2.  ...her mother probably...
3.  ...traditional religious beliefs...
4.  ...payoffs to police.
5.  ...called jazz spread...
6.   ...like Charles Lindbergh also...
7.   ...and values in...
8.   ...growing more than...
9.   ...to buy all...
10.  ...hurt international trade...
11.  ...had loaned money...
12.  ...market crashed as...


Names and Terms List:

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