1920s Culture
This style of music was brought to northern cities by African Americans due their migration from the south and then became popular all across the country?
What is Jazz?
In order to convince people to buy their goods and services companies started using this tactic.
What is advertising?
The phrase used in William Harding's campaign for president in 1920, to promise a retreat from the heavy social, political, and international upheavals of the preceding decade
What is a "return to normalcy"?
What were the goals of Prohibition?
Reduce poverty, unemployment, domestic abuse, alcoholism
A historic 50,000-watt AM radio station based in Nashville, Tennessee, best known as the home of the Grand Ole Opry.
What is WSM radio
An American poet, novelist, and playwright who served as a primary leader and voice of the Harlem Renaissance through his "jazzy poetry".
Who is Langston Hughes?
These women rejected traditional values, wore skirts, and attended dance halls, representing the changing society of the '20s.
Who are flappers?
What new technological device connected Americans, provided entertainment and information in a way that was not previously possible, and encouraged consumerism?
Radio
What amendment gave American women the right to vote?
19th
This is the name given to the movement of large numbers of African Americans from the South to the North in search of better economic opportunity and to escape discrimination.
What is the Great Migration?
These are two groups of people targeted by the KKK in the 1920s
What are African Americans, Jews, immigrants, and Catholics, and "un-American" groups?
He was the first to fly across the Atlantic, solo nonstop
who was Charles Lindburgh
How did the invention of the automobile change the lives of men and women in the 1920s?
Gave them more freedom and independence than ever before.
The economy grew in the 1920s as consumers began to buy goods they could not normally afford and growing their personal debt by using this method
What is buying on credit/installment plans?
Which amendment led to Prohibition?
18th amendment
The Scopes trial was about whether or not to teach this in schools.
What is evolution?
Who was the most popular baseball hero of the 1920s?
Babe Ruth
An American composer and musician widely recognized as the "Father of the Blues" for popularizing the genre.
Who was W.C. Handy?
People used this term to describe the growth in music, dance, literature, theatre, and other forms of art in Harlem in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A financial practice where investors purchased stocks by paying only a small fraction of the share's price in cash—typically as little as 10%—and borrowing the remaining 90% from a stockbroker or bank.
What is "buying on margin"?
What systems were put in place to try to suppress the voting rights of African Americans?
Grandfather clause, poll taxes, literacy test (Jim Crow Laws)
What did literature and art of the Harlem Renaissance represent?
African American culture. African American's struggles. Story of the Great Migration.
What groups were left behind in the national prosperity that many others were experiencing in the 1920s?
Farmers, Coal Miners, Textile Workers, Railroad Workers, Unskilled Laborers (working class Americans)
She opened up the first birth control clinic in America
Who was Margaret Sanger
A traditional way of thinking, rooted in a literal interpretation of the words of the Bible. There was a movement in many southern states centered around this.
fundamentalism
What factors contributed to economic growth during the 1920s?
Improved technology, more efficient/faster production (assembly line/specialization of labor), cheaper products, increased consumerism, lower taxes, increased income (growth of middle class)
This term describes the fear and distrust towards those deemed as "radicals" during the 1920s. Began due to the Russian Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
In order to efficiently transport, produce and sell illegal alcohol this type of illegal activity became rampant across America
What is organized crime?
(Mafia, Bootlegging)
These were organized to root out groups whose activities posed a clear danger to the country and targeted communist groups and those with ties to anarchy after several bomb threat in 8 cities targeting prominent Americans of the era.
What are the Palmer Raids?
American gangster and businessman who rose to infamy as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era.
Who was Al Capone?