Artists
The painter who showed scenes of The Great Migration in some of his pieces
Jacob Lawrence
Who made the assembly line popular?
Henry Ford
Who successfully built and flew the first airplane
The Wright Brothers
Places where people bought and drank alcohol illegally
Speakeasies
What was the Great Migration and when did it occur?
The Great Migration was a time during the 1900s-1920s when many African Americans left the repressive South in the hopes of finding better work and treatment in other parts of the country.
Name the artistic time period when African Americans first emerged as successful writers, poets, singers, and painters.
Harlem Renaissaince
the technology most responsible for creating a national entertainment culture in the 1920s
the radio
Ways that women expressed their independence during the 1920s
cutting their hair, dancing the Charleston, playing sports, wearing new clothing styles
A person who smuggled alcohol during prohibition
bootlegger
Major cities that African Americans moved to during the Great Migration
Urban areas of the north and northwest: NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago
This author wrote a famous novel about the jazz age
F Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, about the jazz age
Electrification (Electricity) changed American lives in these ways:
new forms of entertainment, labor-saving devices, improved communication, more free time for women
Who made the moving assembly line popular?
Henry Ford, inventor of the Ford Model T automobile
Prohibition was...
a time when it was illegal to make or sell alcohol
two famous musicians during the Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
This Author wrote about the struggles of migrant workers during the Great Depression
John Steinbeck wrote a novel called The Grapes of Wrath about migrant workers during the Great Depression
The main reason for the booming economy of the 1920s
mass production of many new consumer goods on factory production lines that were priced low
This painter painted urban scenes and scenes of the southwest
Georgia O'Keefe
Prohibition was repealed by what amendment
21st Amendment
A poet who expressed the hardships of African Americans in America with poems like, "I, too" and "A Dream Deferred".
Langston Hughes
two white musicians that created uniquely American music, inspired by European classical and jazz music
George Gerschwin and Aaron Copland
Name five inventions that changed American life in the 1920s
washing machines, electric stoves, electric lighting, radio, airplane, automobiles, telephone, movies
How did advancements in technology lead to the creation of suburbs?
Easier and cheaper modes of transportation like the automobile, creation of more jobs.
Was Prohibition effective? Explain
No, it was too difficult to maintain.
The most famous jazz and blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance
Bessie Smith