Economy
It encouraged risky investments by borrowing money to buy stocks.
What is buying stocks on margin?
It granted women the right to vote.
What was the 19th Amendment?
He is a famous poet who emerged during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who was Langston Hughes?
A mass exodus of African-Americans from the South to northern cities.
What was the Great Migration?
Material success and wealth characterizes this goal of many Americans in the 1920s
What is the American Dream?
It contributed to the agricultural depression of the 1920s.
How did overproduction after WWI affect farmers?
A time period when alcohol was banned from society due to the 18th amendment.
What was prohibition?
What characterized the Harlem Renaissance?
African American artistic expression.
(Music, Poetry, Art)
What is a major pull factor of the Great Migration?
Better job opportunities in the North.
The addition of this group of workers increased the number of consumers.
What are women in the workforce?
Private ownership of business is a key difference between these two economic systems.
What is capitalism and communism?
Illegal alcohol trafficking.
What is bootlegging?
This Harlem Renaissance patron established scholarships for needy children and created haircare products for the African-American community.
Who was Madam CJ Walker?
Racism and discrimination is an example of this cause of the Great Migration.
What is a push factor?
They are known for having short hair, short skirts, and modern attitudes
Who are flappers?
It is the fear of communism spreading in America.
What was the Red Scare?
Buying on credit became widely popular.
How did consumer habits change in the 1920s?
He was famous for playing the trumpet.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
The Great Migration caused this to happen to population and diversity in northern cities.
This decade nickname describes an era of economic prosperity and cultural changes in America
What are the Roaring Twenties?
These two men were accused of a crime, had a corrupt trial and were eventually sentenced to death due to their radical beliefs and fears of communism.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
It centered around a corrupt government deal involving oil-rich land in Wyoming.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
These are some ways that African American artistic expression manifested in the Harlem Renaissance.
What is literature, music, and visual arts?
(Art, music, writing)
Racism and discrimination in the south led many African Americans do to this.
What is move to cities in the North?
The vacuum cleaner
What invention became highly desired in households?