Society & Culture
These young women of the 1920s challenged traditional norms by bobbing their hair and wearing shorter skirts among other things.
What are Flappers?
This social movement campaigned to ban alcohol, often for moral or religious reasons.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The "Red Scare" was a nationwide panic about the spread of this political system to the United States.
What is Communism?
In the 1920s, consumers began buying products using this method, promising to pay for them later.
What is credit?
This environmental disaster was caused by severe drought and the over-farming of land.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This intellectual and artistic movement celebrated African American culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This is the name for the illegal bars or nightclubs where people went to drink during Prohibition.
What is a Speakeasy?
This hate group saw its membership numbers grow significantly during the 1920s.
What is the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)?
While buying on credit increased sales, it eventually led to many Americans accumulating high amounts of this.
What is debt?
These shantytowns built by homeless people were named after the President who was blamed for the economic crisis.
What are Hoovervilles?
This group of people were emboldened to try and push past their societal roles during the 1920s.
What are women?
The word for illegally transporting goods into a country.
The fear of Communism and the overthrow of the Russian government contributed to a growing distrust and fear of this group of people.
What are immigrants?
This production method, perfected by Henry Ford, changed how goods were produced by moving the product to the worker.
What is the assembly line?
This region of the United States was the most severely affected by the Dust Bowl.
What was the Midwest?
This was the mass movement of African Americans leaving the South to find jobs in Northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
This type of illicit activity was an unexpected negative effect that grew larger and more powerful due to Prohibition.
What is organized crime?
The KKK targeted these groups of people. (Name at least 3)
What are African Americans, non-protestants, immigrants.
The major economic event that ended the Roaring Twenties.
What is the Great Depression?
What is California?
African American's competing for city jobs was one contributing factor to the growth of these specific conflicts in the 1920s.
Supporters of the Temperance movement argued that banning alcohol would solve these specific societal problems. (Name at least 2)
What are crime, poverty, domestic violence, bad workplace practices, immoral behavior?
Passed in 1924, this act strictly limited the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States.
What is the Johnson-Reed Act?
This famous scandal involved the secret leasing of federal oil reserves during the Harding Presidency.
What is the Teapot Dome scandal?
During the Great Depression unemployment reached as high as this percentage.
What is 25%?