6.1 The Great Migration & Harlem Renaissance
This movement involved African Americans migrating from the rural South to the urban North between 1916 and 1970.
What is the Great Migration?
This invention helped connect rural and urban areas and transformed transportation in the 1920s.
What is the automobile?
This is the 26th president.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The Civil War took place between the North and South of the United States. These two reasons lead to the war.
What is slaves and the government's power?
This term described the movement calling for African Americans to have the same rights and freedoms as white Americans after World War I.
What is “The New Negro” movement?
This term describes the practice of buying stocks with borrowed money, which helped fuel the 1920s economic boom.
What is buying on margin?
This is the 27th president.
Who is William Taft?
The Reconstruction period focused on this idea for the United States.
What is rebuilding the United States after the Civil War?
This 1919 period of racial violence included riots in cities like Chicago and Washington, D.C.
What is the Red Summer?
This famous 1925 trial debated whether evolution could be taught in public schools.
This is the 28th president.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Jim Crow laws led to this impact on enslaved people.
What is create restrictions that segregated the former slaves and African Americans up to the Civil Rights movement?
This cultural movement centered in Harlem celebrated African American art, music, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This term describes the group of writers disillusioned after World War I, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
What is the Lost Generation?
This is the 29th president.
Who is Warren Harding?
Imperialism was one of the leading reasons for World War I. These were the other two reasons leading to WWI.
What is Nationalism and Militarism?
List the answers to the essential question:
How did the Great Migration affect American culture and society?
Answers may vary.
List the answers to the essential question:
In what ways was the 1920s a decade of progress?
Answers may vary.
This is the 30th president.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This era or age was called it due to the citizens having a larger gap in the higher class and lower class.
What is the Gilded Age?