Jazz Age
This New York neighborhood became the cultural center of African American arts, music, and literature in the 1920s.
What is Harlem?
This white supremacist group resurged in the 1920s, reaching millions of members.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This manufacturing innovation, perfected by Henry Ford, lowered production costs and increased output.
What is the assembly line?
This 1924 law granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States.
What is the Indian Citizenship Act?
Workers used this strike tactic—occupying factories—to prevent owners from replacing them.
What is a sit-down strike?
He was a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance known for works like “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”.
Who is Langston Hughes?
These violent killings, used to terrorize African Americans, increased during the 1920s.
What are lynchings?
Buying expensive products through monthly payments was known as this method of credit.
What is installment buying?
Even after the Act passed, many Native Americans were still denied this basic right by states.
What is the right to vote?
Courts often issued these legal orders to limit picketing and union activities.
What are injunctions?
Jazz spread nationwide thanks to these two new technologies that brought music into American homes.
What are radio and phonographs?
This 1921 event saw the destruction of “Black Wall Street” and the deaths of hundreds of African Americans.
What is the Tulsa Race Riot?
This invention transformed American life by expanding travel and contributing to suburban growth.
What is the automobile?
Some Native Americans opposed the Act because they believed it threatened this key aspect of tribal life.
What is tribal sovereignty?
This major 1936–1937 strike successfully unionized General Motors factories.
What is the Flint Sit-Down Strike?
This composer and bandleader helped define the Jazz Age with performances at the Cotton Club.
Who is Duke Ellington?
He founded the UNIA and encouraged Black nationalism and the “Back to Africa” movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
These new home appliances—such as refrigerators and vacuum cleaners—became more common due to mass production.
What are modern conveniences (or household appliances)?
Before 1924, Native Americans often received citizenship only if they agreed to this government policy.
What is assimilation?
These two ideologies appealed to workers because they promised economic equality.
What are socialism and communism?
Artists like Aaron Douglas used this modern artistic style to portray African American life.
What is modernism?
These two methods were used by Southern states to keep African Americans from voting.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
This industry fueled increased consumer spending by convincing Americans they needed new products.
What is advertising?
This type of treaty-based issue remained unresolved even after citizenship was granted.
What are land and resource rights?
Industries often hired these individuals to break strikes and intimidate workers.
Who are strikebreakers (or private security)?