What is syncopation? What is ragtime? How is it related to jazz?
Who was Louis Armstrong? What did his music sound like?
What is bebop?
What is hot jazz? How does it differ from classic jazz?

How is jazz music similar to classical music? How is it different?
What are the characteristics of jazz music?
Some have called jazz music “America’s classical music.” What is meant by this statement? Do you agree or disagree?
Choose one jazz musician and discuss his/her contributions to jazz. What influence did this person have on the development and evolution of jazz music?
What is improvisation? What is its role in jazz music?

Explanation:

Syncopation means 1 : a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing the weak beat. 2 : a syncopated rhythm, passage, or dance step.

Ragtime is music characterized by a syncopated melodic line and regularly accented accompaniment, evolved by black American musicians in the 1890s and played especially on the piano.

(the answer to your third question) Ragtime is primarily a solo piano style and was the immediate precursor to jazz. It originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The right hand plays syncopated melodies in a "ragged" fashion (hence the name "ragtime").

Louis Armstrong was an American trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and actor who was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different eras in the history of jazz.His gritty tenor mirrored his trumpet style and influenced practically every singer in pop and jazz. Artists including Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan deeply admired Armstrong's singing and used his example to mold their own vocal styles.

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features compositions characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure

This is the answers to your first 6 questions