The Great Migration & Harlem Renaissance
Between 1910 and 1940, millions of African Americans moved from the rural South to Northern cities for jobs and to escape segregation.
What is the Great Migration?
This term refers to the fashionable young woman in the 1920s who rejected traditional norms by wearing short skirts, bobbed hair, and dancing.
What are "flappers?"
This Constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is the primary reason massive dust storms occured from 1930-1936.
What is draughts?
This was the main goal of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
What is to help America recover from the Great Depression?
This was one of the primary motivations for African Americans to migrate from the South to the North.
What is escaping Jim Crow Laws (etc. segregation, oppression, violence)?
This was the primary goal of the Temperance Movement.
What is banning alcohol?
This suffrage leader founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and spent decades fighting for women’s voting rights.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The Dust Bowl primarily affected this region of the United States.
What is the Midwest or Great Plains?
This program was created during the New Deal and still provides financial support to retired Americans.
What is Social Security?
This cultural movement in New York City celebrated African American art, literature, and music during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This Constitutional amendment banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the US.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This movement fought to expand democratic rights by advocating that women should have the right to vote.
What is the Women’s Suffrage Movement?
This event triggered widespread panic and bank failures during the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This organization worked to challenge segregation and discrimination of black Americans through the courts.
What is the NAACP?
This style of music, played by artists like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, became popular during the Harlem Renaissance.
What is jazz?
This was greatest negative impact Prohibition had on the United States.
What is an increase of organized crime?
This journalist and civil rights activist fought for women’s voting rights but also challenged racism within the suffrage movement, famously refusing to march at the back of the 1913 suffrage parade.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This was the reaction of many farmers who were impacted by the Dust Bowl.
What is they moved west in search of work?
Brown University in Washington D.C. is an example of these that established primarily to provide higher education opportunities for African Americans during segregation.
What are HBCUs, or Historically Black Colleges and Universities?
Approximately 6 million African Americans migrated North between 1910-1970 with the first wave occuring between 1910-1940. Is it estimated this many African American migrated North during this first wave.
What is 1.5 Million?
This Constitutional amendment overturned (reversed) the 18th Amendment banning alcohol.
What is the 21st Amendment?
A large amount of women who fought for the right to vote also fought for this cause, which later became the 18th Amendment.
What is prohibition?
This was the primary economic problem that contributed to the Great Depression.
What is the overproduction of goods by factories and farms?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?