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Text "Flappers"
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Text "Flappers"
What is the equivalent of the word "contraception" in the text?
Birth control
What were the dates of the Prohibition?
from 1920 to 1933
When did the Harlem Renaissance movement start?
in the 1920s
What were the two events which triggered the Roaring 20s?
WW1 and Spanish Influenza Pandemic
How long was the gap between the first step against alcohol and the beginning of prohibition?
3 years (1920-1917)
In which neighbourhood of which city was the Harlem Renaissance movement?
In Manhattan in New York City
Which movement started in the 1920s?
Feminism
What was the name and the job of the person who brought Al Capone down?
Prohibition agent Eliot Ness
What are the names of the activist and of the poet mentionned in the video?
- W.E.B Dubois
- Alain Locke
What were the 3 social factors which enabled women to gain more independence?
- they had jobs (from men) and incomes
- the automobile
- birth control
Which political institution voted the end of Prohibition and which Amendment was passed?
Congress voted the 21st Amendment
What happened to art, music and litterature during the Harlem Renaissance?
They were re-imagined
Why were women not so happy to find men returning from the war?
because they wanted to keep their job, their income and so their independence
What are 3 reasons why Prohibition was a failure?
- Americans didn't want the law
- Prohibition agents were too few in numbers
- Prohibition agents were easy to bribe
- the crime rate increased
Why did the artists migrate from the South of the US?
to be free / to escape Segregation/ because they were msitreated/ they had no rights
they wanted to be part of the movement