Society
These were young women who changed social norms by wearing shorter hair and dresses and going out regularly
Flappers
Jim Crow Laws
Name one of the factors that motivated many African Americans to move North during this era
-racial violence
-segregation laws
-more jobs in the North
This event killed more people than WW1 and WW2 combined
"Spanish Flu" Pandemic
This author of The Great Gatsby and other works often depicted the social changes of the 1920s in his books and short stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This type of music became incredibly popular during the 20s
Jazz
This law gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
This term refers to the fear of Communist ideas spreading to the United States
Red Scare
This was the period during which alcohol was illegal in the United States
Prohibition
This person was the most famous athlete of the 1920s and helped baseball become a "national pastime"
Babe Ruth
This was the first known antibiotic developed in the 1920s, which helped kill harmful bacteria and save millions of lives
Penicillin
Speakeasies
This white supremacist group carried out acts of violence against black Americans and other minority groups.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This was the emergence of black culture in art, music, and literature that came with many African-Americans moving to Northern citiese
Harlem Renaissance
Al Capone was the most famous gangster of the 1920s, who made a fortune doing this and supplying alcohol to millions of Americans
Bootlegging
This term refers to he different types of media, entertainment, and technology that make up a society
Pop Culture
Which amendment created Prohibition and which amendment ended it (you need both for credit)
18th and 21st Amendment
This is the belief that people born in a certain country should be prioritized over people born elsewhere
Nativism
This was the movement of many African-Americans from southern states to northern cities during the late 1800s/early 1900s
A man named John Scopes was arrested in Tennessee and put on trial for teaching this to his science students
Darwin's theory of Evolution
This is the belief that mass production of goods and people buying them is beneficial for society and the economy
Consumerism
This means to put numerical limits on something. The American government put these on immigration for the first time during the 1920s.
Quotas
This event, which took place in Oklahoma, was one of the largest instances of racial violence that has ever occurred in American history but was largely covered up after it happened
Tulsa Massacre
The first cross-Atlantic flight by aviator Charles Lindbergh occurred in this year
1927
Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants who were unfairly convicted of murder and sentenced to death largely because they were viewed as "outsiders." In which Massachusetts town did they allegedly commit their crime?
Braintree