Technology
Artists
Vocabulary
Great Migration
Racism and Social Tension
100

This 1920s technology replaced the ice box.

electric refrigerator

100

Jazz trumpet player

Louis Armstrong

100

This is the spread of electricity to homes.

electrification

100

What part of the country were African Americans leaving during the Great Migration?

the South
100

This group's member surged to 5 million by 1925.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

200

This 1920s technology replaced the chamber pot.

flush toilet

200

Modern dance who started her own dance company.

Martha Graham

200
This is the policy the U.S. returned to after WWI.

isolationism

200

What part of the country were African Americans going to (moving to) during the Great Migration?

the North and the West

200

One view during the 1920s was that the Emergency Quota Act was unfair to __________________.

(What group?)

immigrants

(from certain parts of the world)

300
This 1920s technology replaced the wooden stove.

electric stove

300

American orchestral composer; example: Fanfare for the Common Man

Aaron Copland

300

What is a time period when a country's economy is doing very well.

boom

300

What are 2 pull factors for African Americans during the 1920s?

Any 2 of the following:

jobs, better pay, family already there, more freedom, better life/new start

300

The "Red Scare" was the fear of ___________.

communism

400

This type of technology included the radio and movies

mass media

400

Poet from the Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes

400

This amendment gave women the right to vote.

19th

400

What are 2 push factors for African Americans during the Great Migration?

Any 2 of the following:

no jobs, low pay, KKK, violence, rights being blocked, discrimination, bad crop year

400

What country or group of people did many Americans associate with communism?

Russia (Russians)

500

New technology during the 1920s gave people more of this - 

leisure time

500

Writer; author of the Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

500

This amendment made the sale, transport and making of alcohol illegal in the U.S.

18th

500

About how many African Americans moved during the Great Migration?

6 million

500

In the 1870s the KKK was anti-black. During the 1920s the KKK was anti-black but they were also anti ___________.

What 3 groups were they also against in the 1920s?

anti-immigrant

anti-Semitic

anti-Catholic

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