Social Changes
This style of music, which featured improvisation and became a major part of the Harlem Renaissance, helped shape American culture in the 1920s.
Jazz
This term describes the period from 1920 to 1933 when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol were banned in the U.S.
Prohibition
I was the Chicago crime boss who built an empire selling illegal alcohol during Prohibition.
Al Capone
In the 1920s, this new form of mass communication allowed Americans to hear music, news, and sports broadcasts live in their homes.
radio
During Prohibition, this term referred to making and secretly selling alcohol illegally.
Bootlegging
Centered in New York City, this movement highlighted African American creativity in art, music, and literature during the 1920s.
Harlem Renaissance
This amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States.
The 19th Amendment
What group promoted white supremacy and opposed immigrants, African Americans, Catholics, and Jews in the 1920s?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What allowed Americans in the 1920s to buy goods and pay for them over time instead of all at once?
credit
During Prohibition, these secret bars required a password to enter and were where people illegally drank alcohol.
Speakeasies
During this movement, African Americans moved north to escape racial violence and find better job opportunities, especially in cities like Chicago, Detroit, and New York.
Great Migration
This amendment started Prohibition by banning the sale of alcohol in the United States.
18th Amendment
This trial debated whether evolution could be taught in public schools.
Scopes Trial
This car, built by Henry Ford, became affordable to many Americans thanks to the assembly line.
Model T
These young women of the 1920s shocked older generations by wearing shorter dresses, cutting their hair short, and challenging traditional expectations.
Flappers
This production method used by Henry Ford allowed cars to be built faster and cheaper, helping millions of Americans afford automobiles.
Assembly Line
This U.S. law passed in 1924 set strict quotas that limited how many immigrants could enter the country.
Immigration Act of 1924
This belief that favored native-born Americans over immigrants influenced immigration restrictions in the 1920s.
Nativism
This man revolutionized the automobile industry by using the assembly line to lower costs and make cars affordable for many American families.
Henry Ford
Originally focused on federal investigations, this agency grew in power during the 1920s to combat organized crime related to Prohibition.
The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
This famous pilot became a national hero after completing the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
Charles Lindbergh
The Scopes Trial of 1925 was sparked by a Tennessee law banning the teaching of this scientific theory in public schools.
Evolution
This 1920s scandal, named for a Wyoming oil field, involved government officials secretly leasing oil reserves to private companies in exchange for bribes.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Name one industry that struggled during the 1920s.
Coal mining, textiles, railroads, or farming
This energetic dance of the 1920s, often performed by flappers, became one of the most popular dances of the Jazz Age.
The Charleston
This movement encouraged Americans to ban alcohol and eventually led to Prohibition.
Temperance Movement
This amendment repealed Prohibition, ending the national ban on alcohol in 1933.
21st Amendment
This president took office after Warren G. Harding and believed the government should interfere as little as possible in the economy.
Calvin Coolidge
While his presidency was marked by corruption and scandals like Teapot Dome, the U.S. economy grew during his time in office. He died suddenly in 1923 before he could be questioned about the scandals.
Warren G. Harding
This 1919 law enforced the 18th Amendment by defining what counted as illegal alcohol and setting rules for how Prohibition would be carried out.
Volstead Act