Women
The name for a "modern woman" who had short hair, smoked in public, drove, wore too much makeup, and danced.
What is a Flapper?
An indigenous musical form developed by African Americans in the 1920's.
What is Jazz?
Famous for using the assembly line to quickly and cheaply manufacture cars.
Who is Henry Ford?
The second one of these happened in the 1950s.
What is a Red Scare?
These were secret illegal clubs that sold alcohol during Prohibition.
What is a Speakeasy?
This was the most powerful and organized criminal group in the 20s, having roots in Italy.
What is the Mafia?
This is the reason most women started entering the workplace.
What is World War I?
Trumpet player considered the single most important and influential musician in the history of jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
These networks began in 1922 and became a source of information and entertainment.
What is Radio?
They feared the Jews and Catholics.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
This was the name of a person who transported illegal liquor during Prohibition.
What is a Bootlegger?
What is the name of one of the biggest mob bosses during the Roaring 20s?
Who is Al Capone?
Name at least two of the jobs that were common for women in the 1920s.
What are teachers, nurses, librarians, OR social workers.?
A migration of Black people and their culture into a community that was previously dominated by middle class whites.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
These were the names of the first movies to utilize sound.
What are “Talkies”?
A strong political or social clash between people in the same country or community.
What is a cultural war?
This president kept his stash of alcohol in the White House.
Who was President Warren Harding?
Al Capone was finally charged and arrested because of this crime.
What is Tax Evasion?
This is the Amendment in 1920 that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
He coined the term “Jazz Age” saying that Jazz music defined the early 1920’s.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
In 1923, Garret Morgan invented this after seeing two automobiles crash into each other.
What is a traffic light?
Immigrants who were punished because of anti-communist hysteria.
Who were Eastern Europeans and Asians?
The amendment that made alcohol illegal AND the one that made it legal again.
What are the 18th Amendment and 21st Amendment?
This is what gave organized criminals more power than ever in the 1920s.
What is the Prohibition?
Where the name “flapper” came from.
What are shoe buckles?
Made popular by Jazz musician, Cab Calloway, this is when a singer improvises melodies and rhythms using the voice as an instrument rather than by speaking words.
What is Scat singing?
In 1925, John Logie Baird invented this item which changed the face of entertainment.
What is Television?
This was another thing the KKK feared, because they thought it would bring bad morals and values.
What is the migration of blacks to the north?
A group that asked its members only to vote for people who would ban the use of alcohol
What is the Anti Saloon League?
When they infiltrated the system and assigned or designated territory.
What is it called Organized Crime?