The Roaring 20’s Timeline Internet Scavenger Hunt

Click on the blue text in each question to guide you to the website which contains the answer.

1. What important change to the constitution in 1920 gave women the right to vote?

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2. Who became the 29^th president of the United States and was inaugarated on March 24, 1921?

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3. Who became the first woman to serve in the United States senate in 1922?

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4. In 1924, newspapers picked up a newly discovered pastime and within a decade

_________________________________________________ were featured in almost

all American newspapers.

5. The New Yorker, a weekly American magazine which publishes

criticism, essays, investigative reporting, and fiction, debuted on

_______________________________________________________.

Click here to listen to popular songs of the 1920’s. Then continue with the

following questions.

6. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald published his masterpiece, ____________________________________,

which was thought by many to be the definitive novel of the 1920s.

7. The first transatlantic telephone call was between New York City and London and occurred on

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8. On ______________________________, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across

the Atlantic in 20 hours and 40 minutes.

9. The worst day in US stock market history happened on October 29, 1929 and is known as

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This set the tone for the beginning of the….GREAT DEPRESSION!