Build academic vocabulary skills with a Roaring Twenties word search for middle school students.
What was the Roaring 20s? Top Ten Facts about the Roaring Twenties
While checking out the content taught in upper elementary and middle school, we’ve learned some interesting facts about the era in American history known as the Roaring Twenties! Here’s a bit of what we’ve discovered!
- The Roaring Twenties was a time of economic prosperity and social change that lasted from 1920 to 1929.
- Prohibition on the sale and manufacture of alcohol was the law during the twenties in America.
- The 1920s was an exuberant time for music, art, fashion, and culture. The decade saw a more carefree lifestyle emerge through the evolution of jazz and blues music.
- Women were granted voting rights in America during the decade.
- The jazz age brought about several dance crazes, especially the Charleston.
- The 1920s were a time of great change in Western culture.
- The decade was marked by increased industrial production in factories and a rise in consumer goods such as electric refrigerators, radios, and automobiles.
- There was great optimism about the future during this time period. This optimism was reflected in architecture, art, music, and literature.
Review the Roaring 20s – Middle School Vocabulary
Need a fun and engaging way to review vocabulary? Then this Roaring Twenties Word Search is just what you need!
This is a middle school U.S. history worksheet for students to review vocabulary related to the event. Students will read and locate 16 Roaring Twenties vocabulary words on a grid. This product includes a key to all answers.
Roaring Twenties Vocabulary Word List
The following words are included in this Roaring 20s worksheet
- Jazz
- Great Migration
- Prohibition
- Speakeasies
- Bootlegging
- Talkie
- Flappers
- Isolationism
- Consumerism
- Red Scare
- Nativism
- Communism
- Temperance
- Harlem
- NAACP
- Poetry
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This resource was created by Ali Endlich, a teacher in South Carolina and Teach Starter Collaborator.
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