Key Terms
The 1920s is commonly known by this title.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
This act prohibited the production, sale, transportation, and possession of beverages that contained 0.5% or greater alcohol by volume.
What is the Volstead Act?
With the Great Migration, many Black Americans moved to urban cities such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, and this other well known area.
What is New York?
These popular fashion shows were performed by LGBTQ peoples during the 1920s that drew 7,000 peoples.
What are Dragballs?
This scandal under the Harding Administration saw naval oil reserves being leased/bribed to private oilmen
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This business figure helped to make automobiles accessible with their new scientific research and mass production techniques.
Who is Henry Ford?
What are speakeasies?
Who is Langston Hughes?
Who is William Dorsey Swann?
These two different religious viewpoints clashed with one another most notably during the Scope trials of 1925
What is Modernism and Fundamentalism?
The manufacture (creation), sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
What is the 18th Amendment?
As prohibition practically created organized crime, this was the term that described illegal sellers of alcohol.
What is a bootlegger?
This prominent musician was a well known trumpet player with songs such as What a Wonderful World.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This term references the "cover up marriages" many LGBTQ couples had on document.
What are Lavender Marriages?
The Revenue Acts of 1921, 1924, and 1926 helped lower income taxes for all workers, however these particular group of people still made up the highest amount of total income tax being paid.
Who are High income earners/Business Owners?
A treaty that attempted to “outlaw” war “as an instrument of national policy”
What is the Kellogg Brand Pact?
While the 18th Amendment and Volstead Act prohibited selling and importation of alcohol, it did not prohibit this particular action.
What is drinking/consumption of alcohol?
This writer was a the daughter of two former slaves who helped launched the literary magazine Fire!!
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This term that refers to when folks reveal they are LGBTQ in today's world referred to someone's first night out in the Queer communities.
What is Coming Out?
While the National Origins Act attempted immigration, theses two groups of people still had relatively easier processes of immigrating into the United States.
Who are Mexican and Filipino Immigrants?
The discredited idea that intelligence and other favorable social traits were inherited characteristics.
What is Eugenics?
This group were considered leading advocates for prohibition claiming alcohol made people angry and abusive.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Movement?
Artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance asserted pride in black life and identity as well as a rising consciousness of _______ and _________
What is inequality and discrimination?
This prominent writer in the Harlem Renaissance also identified as LGBTQ?
Although the US attempted to a variety of policies and acts to prevent war, US senate rejected joining this particular group.
What is the League of Nations?