Women in the 1900s
The 19th Amendment gave women this right.
What is the Women's right to vote
This was the illegal production and sale of alcohol during Prohibition.
What is bootlegging
This 1955 event began when a Black woman refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was the main goal of the temperance movement.
What is to ban or reduce alcohol consumption?
This U.S. president signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
During World War II, this character symbolized women entering the workforce in factories.
Who is Rosie the Riveter
She was a symbol of women’s new freedom, short skirts, bobbed hair, and jazz clubs.
Who are Flappers
This 1963 speech was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington.
What is the I Have A Dream speech
This amendment, passed in 1919, made the manufacture and sale of alcohol illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This Southern state was the site of the Selma to Montgomery marches.
What is Alabama
Many women joined this part of the economy during both World Wars, taking over jobs left by men.
What is the workforce (or factories/industry)?
This 1925 trial symbolized the clash between science and religion in schools.
Scopes Trial
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown V. Board
This period in U.S. history, from 1920 to 1933, made alcohol illegal.
What is prohibition
This former slave became a leading Black educator, founding Tuskegee Institute and encouraging job skills education as a path to progress.
Booker T. Washington
As more women entered the workforce in the 1960s–70s, many challenged this unfair practice—earning less than men for the same job.
What is the Gender Pay Gap
This movement celebrated African American culture through music, art, and literature in New York.
Harlem Renaissance
The Montgomery Bus Boycott helped launch this organization, led by Dr. King.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
This type of store or business was a main target of temperance protests.
What is a saloon (or bar)?
This type of tax, used to block poor and Black voters, was banned by the 24th Amendment
What is the Poll Tax
This movement focused on issues like equal pay, reproductive rights, and career opportunities for women.
What is the feminist movement (or modern women’s movement)?
This economic practice, common in the 1920s, allowed Americans to buy goods they couldn’t immediately afford.
What is buying on credit, or installment buying
This 1964 effort sent volunteers to Mississippi to register Black voters and set up Freedom Schools, facing violent resistance.
What is Freedom Summer
This 1933 amendment repealed Prohibition and ended the temperance movement’s biggest legal victory.
What is the 21st Amendment?
This term describes state laws that enforced segregation and voter suppression before the Act.
What are Jim Crow Laws