Women of the 1920s
African American Experience
1920s Technology
Prohibition
1920s Economy
100
Women of the 1920s who pushed the boundaries and broke the traditions previously held by society regarding a woman's role in the social order were known by this term.
What were 'flappers'?
100
A cultural shift of the 1920s, African Americans began expressing a new attitude through art, music, and other forms of culture, especially in this district of New York City.
What was Harlem?
100
This technological advancement's widespread use allowed American to continue with work and recreation into the night.
What is the electric light bulb?
100
Prohibition was passed in the beginning of the 1920s as this amendment (number) of the U.S. Consitution.
What was the 18th Amendment?
100

I am a "shanty town" made of cardboard and scrap wood, named after the President people blamed for being poor during the Great Depression.

What were Hoovervilles?

200
Women had made significant political and social progress in the 1920s when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed them this.
What is the right to vote?
200
One expression of the new attitude of African Americans in the 1920s blended their cultural experiences from West Africa and the southern United States into this form of music
What was jazz music?
200
During the 1920s, Americans were able to gain a greater sense of national identity by sharing in the music, news, stories, and jokes they heard on this technological innovation that no one could live without.
What was the radio?
200
Liquor, during the 1920s, was sold behind closed doors in establishments that went by this name.
What were speakeasies?
200

I am the nickname given to the decade of the 1920s because of the fast cars, loud music, and changing culture.

What was the Roaring Twenties?

300
Women had made political progress by working in industrial factories during World War I due to most men serving in this role.
What was a soldier?
300
African Americans sought to leave the South in the 1920s in order gain greater financial independence working in industrial jobs in the North than they had achieved working in this agricultural system of labor
What was sharecropping?
400
Along with factory jobs, women also earned the right to vote through their hard work on this particular type of family-owned land throughout the Great War.
What were farms?
400
As African Americans pursued industrial work in the North, post-World War I, African American populations increased in major northern urban areas by as much as 600% in a movement known by this name
What was the Great Migration?
500
The first radio broadcast in the U.S. happened in the 1920s on a factory rooftop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the station KDKA, airing the results of this national event.
What was the (1920) Presidential election (returns)?
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