Prohibition America
This Amendment banned the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of "intoxicating liquors."
What is the 18th Amendment?
This economic problem began in the 1920s when industries produced more goods than consumers could afford to buy
What is overproduction?
Traditionalists had a deep respect for
What are long held cultural and religious values?
This cultural movement of the 1920s celebrated African American art, music, and literature in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
Music style that simmered up from the sound of New Orleans and was richly flavored with African, Europe, Spiritual, influence.
What is Jazz?
The illegal making and selling of alcohol was known as this.
What is bootlegging?
Used to meeting high demands during World War I, who were the first people to experience underconsumption and the impact of the Great Depression?
What are farmers?
The Scopes Monkey Trial was centered on the prosecution of a teacher who had taught
What is Evolution?
This new buying method allowed consumers to purchase goods immediately and pay for them over time.
What is installment buying (or “buy now, pay later”)?
This household innovation helped modernize homes and reduce manual labor, especially for women.
What are electric appliances (like washing machines or refrigerators)?
Secret illegal clubs that sold alcohol
What are speakeasies?
Due to extreme confidence in the stock market, many investors did this to get money for investments
What is borrow money?
Modernists believed rural citizens were
What is old-fashioned and outdated?
This new group of young women challenged traditional norms with short hair, makeup, and bold behavior
What are flappers
Famous Gangster who ruled Chicago first by instrumenting the valentined day massacre then buying off politicians to run his illegal activities.
Who is Al Capone?
What made the Volstead Act a failure?
What is it lacked money, personnel, and supplies?
This measure of the cost of living stayed steady in the 1920s, helping workers’ wages go further
What is the consumer price index?
This 1925 trial debated the teaching of evolution in public schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This production method, used by Henry Ford, made goods cheaper by producing them quickly and efficiently.
What is assembly line production (mass production)?
the Name of the dance popular during the 1920s, in which people swung their arms, kicked up their heels, and knocked their knees together
What is the Charleston?
This amendment ended Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
On this day, millions of shares were sold in panic, causing stock prices to collapse.
What is Black Tuesday (October 29,1929)
This effort by adults to restore youth morality in the 1920s involved regulating movies to limit immoral content like suggestive scenes.
What is the Hays Code (or movie censorship)?
This form of mass media connected rural and urban Americans by delivering real-time information and entertainment, helping reduce regional cultural differences.
What is the radio?
Candy named for a famous baseball player
Who is Babe Ruth?