Wesleyan History Ch.7-1, 7-2, & 7-3 PEOPLE, 5th grade
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Who used threats & violence to scare people away -wore white robes & hooded masks | Ku Klux Klan (KKK) |
| Who flew the "Spirit of St.Louis" ? | Charles Lindbergh |
| Who flew from New York to Paris alone & without stopping? | Charles Lindbergh |
| Who worked delivering mail by plane between the cities of St.Louis & Chicago? | Charles Lindbergh |
| Who predicted that "in a few years the United States will be covered with a network of passenger, mail, & express lines."? | Charles Lindbergh |
| Who was the 1st woman to fly alone across the Atlantic (1932)? | Amelia Earhart |
| Who successfully flew from Newfoundland, in Canada, to Ireland? | Amelia Earhart |
| Who landed their plane in a pasture in Ireland? | Amelia Earhart |
| Who said "I've come from America" when they landed? | Amelia Earhart |
| Who decided to fly around the world with a navigator named Fredrick Noonan? | Amelia Earhart |
| Who was Amelia Earhart's navigator on her last flight? | Fredrick Noonan |
| Who was an architect who designed many of his buildings to blend the outdoors with the indoors? | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Who's artistic style became known as prairie style? | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Who was the architect who designed everything from single-family houses to a mile-high skyscraper (which was never built)? | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Who helped create a new kind of American architecture? | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Who was one of the most famous gangsters/gang members? | Al Capone |
| Who was the gangster who worked against the law to supply people with alcoholic becerages? | Al Capone |
| Who was a radio operator who soon saw other uses for radio? | David Sarnoff |
| Who's plan was to broadcast music to the radiosin people's homes? | David Sarnoff |
| Who had the 1st radio broadcast? | KDKA radio station |
| Who broadcast the results of a presidential election between Warren G. Harding (won) & James M. Cox? | KDKA radio station |
| Who won a 10-round boxing match against Jack Dempsey? | Gene Tunney |
| Who was a slugger that hit his 60th home run in 1927? | George Herman "Babe" Ruth |
| Who was a painter who drew inspiration for her artwork from the different places where she lived? | Georgia O'Keefe |
| Who was famous for his plain but vivid writing style? | Ernest Hemingway |
| Who were the 2 writers who wrote about society's problems? | F. Scott Fitzgerald & Sinclair Lewis |
| Who were 3 artists who painted realistic pictures of everyday scenes and of exciting events of the time? | Georgia O'Keefe,Edward Hopper, & Charles Burchfield |
| Who was the African American who sang blues music which influenced jazz? | Bessie Smith |
| Who were 2 of jazz's earliest performers? | Louis Armstrong & Jelly Roll Morton |
| Who was a saxophone player in the 1920's? | John Coltrane |
| Who said,"There are always new sounds to imagiine; new feelings to get at."? | John Coltrane |
| Who were 2 of the decades most popular composers (music writers)? | George & Ira Gershwin |
| Who were the brothers who wrote many songs together (even though they didn't write jazz, their music was influenced by jazz)? | George & Ira Gershwin |
| Who became famous for pieces like "Someone to Watch Over Me" & "Rhapsody in Blue"? | George Gershwin |
| Who was a composer known for his modern style - he used jazz in his "Music for the Theater" and "Piano Concerto"? | Aaron Copland |
| Who wrote musical comedies? | George M. Cohan |
| Who wrote the words & music for 20 musicals and starred in them as well? | George M. Cohan |
| Who were 2 singers who preformed in Harlem clubs? | Billie Holiday & Ethel Waters |
| Who was a dancer in the Harlem clubs? | Bill "Bojangles" Robinison |
| Who was a band leader in the Harlem clubs? | Duke Ellington |
| Who were 3 popular Harlem writers (of the Harlem Renaissance)? | Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, & Zora Neale Hurston |
| Who was a popular Harlem writer who wrote about what is was like to be an African American in the United States? | Langston Hughes |
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