prohibition
which amendment banned the production and selling of alcohol?
18th amendment
what bigger job opportunities were offered to women in this era?
(any) factory workers, servants, teachers, laundresses, typists, salespeople, clerks, bookkeepers, and dressmakers
what famous author wrote the Great Gatsby.
author F. Scott Fitzgerald
what kind of music bloomed in the 1920s?
jazz
what big industries were booming in the 1920s?
steel and standard oil
what did prohibition increase?
organized crime
urban women with independent attitudes, short hair, chewed gum, smoked, and wore short skirts?
flappers
what major trial comes to an end?
The Scopes Monkey Trial
famous baseball legend in 1920s?
Babe Ruth
Due to post war actions what happens to many factories in the early 1920s?
Factories are shut down to convert to making civilian products
which amendment ended prohibition?
21st amendment
which amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th amendment
what was the mass movement of African Americans moving from the South to the North?
who was the president during the great depression?
Herbert Hoover
What was Warren G. Harding known for as president?
his term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome.
What was black market alcohol commonly sold in?
speakeasies
what was one thing women were discriminated in outside of workforce?
education
who invented the television in the 1920s?
John Logie Baird
what were hoovervilles?
encampments of crude dwellings for poor and homeless people.
what two major industries were created in the 1920s?
auto and airline industries
why was Prohibition passed as a law?
to reduce crime and corruption, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America
who was the first female aviator and woman to fly across the Irish Sea?
Mary Bailey.
where were the very first winter Olympics held?
Chamonix, France.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is created in what year?
1922
What industry created jobs throughout the country and played a large role in sustaining the economic prosperity of the 1920s by giving people access to jobs, places to live, and services?
Automobile industry