flappers
What are flappers?
Young women that challenged social rules with bobbed hair and club dancing.
What is Prohibition?
The 18th Amendment that banned alcohol.
What is the South?
Many African Americans moved from this region to Northern cities.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
A group that grew in the 1920s due to cause fear to African Americans and immigrants.
What is Harlem?
A NYC neighborhood that was the center of African American cultural movement in the 1920s.
Name two ways flappers showed independence.
Short skirts, bobbed hair, jazz dancing, smoking/drinking.
What is a speakeasy?
A type of illegal bar that became popular during Prohibition
Name cultural effects of the Great Migration.
Jazz, blues, food, literature, and African American influence in cities.
What method did the KKK commonly use to intimidate others?
Violence and intimidation.
The Harlem Renaissance was a 1920s movement where Black artists, writers, and musicians created a new, powerful wave of art and culture in Harlem.
What bigger social movement or idea were flappers part of?
Women’s independence/social freedom.
What led to organized crime?
Prohibition led to a rise in organized crime.
The Great Migration contributed to racial tensions in where?
Northern cities
What are segregation or discriminatory laws?
Laws that legally enforce the separation of groups, typically based on race.
What are African American neighborhoods / cultural hubs?
Were neighborhoods/ cultural hubs that African Americans built.
What is the Charleston?
A style of dancing that was popular among flappers and symbolized freedom.
Who is Al Capone?
A major gangster who became famous during Prohibition.
What is manufacturing or factory work?
An industry in Northern cities that attracted many African American workers.
What is women’s suffrage?
The right of women to vote in elections. It happened through a long and difficult struggle by women activists.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The amendment that ended prohibition.
What are African American neighborhoods / cultural centers?
Neighborhoods/centers that were special because people shared culture, music, food, traditions, and support.