Prohibition
What is prohibition?
The ban on alcohol production and sales during the 1920s
Which not so secret, secret group, practiced in discrimination and racial violence against African Americans?
Klu Klux Klan (KKK)
What was the primary goal of the Women's Suffrage Movement?
Right to vote for women
What form of entertainment from the 1920s involved competition?
Sports
Name one of the 2 primary car companies of the 1920s
- Ford
- GM (General Motors)
What amendment began prohibition?
The 18th Amendment
What term describes the large-scale movement of African Americans from the rural South to urban areas in the North and West?
The Great Migration
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
What is the term used to define movies without sound in the 1920s?
Silent Films/Movies
What term is used to describe the process of building cars that increasingly sped up the process in the 1920s?
The Assembly Line
What is the term used to describe the process of producing/selling alcohol during the 1920s?
Bootlegging
What term is used to describe Cultural and artistic flourishing of African Americans in the 1920s? (Think New York)
The Harlem Renaissance
What term is used to describe a young woman in the 1920’s who broke with traditional expectations for how women should dress and behave?
Flapper
What type of music took the 1920s by storm and played a large role especially in the African American community?
Jazz
Who is the person that popularized automobiles in the 1920s with their company?
Henry Ford
What is the name for a secret bar used to go against prohibition in the 1920s?
Speakeasy
What term is used to describe the violent racial conflicts that occurred in 1919?
The Red Summer
During what major event did women gain important jobs that they were not willing to give up, pushing suffrage further?
World War I
What new form of technology brought entertainment into the home?
Radio
What was the name of the most popular car produced in the 1920s?
Model T
Who primarily ran the market against prohibition in the 1920s? (Which group)
Gangsters/Organized Crime/Al Capone (Chicago)
What factors contributed to the rise of the KKK in the 1920s? (Hint travel/cities, $, and Al Capone)
- Immigration/Urbanization
- Economic Prosperity
- Prohibition
What did anti-suffragist men think would happen to them if women gained the right to vote?
Acceptable answers:
- Their rights would diminish
- "Ill-informed" women would put the men enforcing the laws at risk by voting for poor laws
- They would lose their ideal wife as a possibility The "traditional woman"
What is the term used to define a movie featuring sound in the 1920s?
Talkies
FINAL JEOPARDY List 3 prices of the most popular car in the 1920s?
1. The initial price
2. The reduced/common price
3. How much it would cost "today" (2010s)
1. $825
2. $260
3. $3,600