Gang Influenced
This violent, organized crime figure was finally convicted of tax evasion, even thought he was a murderer, bootlegger, mob boss.
Who is Al Capone?
This legislation outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquor.
What is the 18th Amendment?
John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of this.
What is Evolution?
Pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved from the South to the North's big cities, in search of jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
A set of principles granting greater freedom to men than women
Double Standard
These people were skeptical of scientific discoveries and theories; they argued that all important knowledge could be found in the bible
Who are fundamentalists?
It highlighted the struggle between science and religion in American schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
Film widely credited with heralding in the age of "talkies" and the end of the silent film era.
What is 'The Jazz Singer'?
An indigenous musical form developed by African Americans in the 1920's.
What is Jazz?
Person who transports illegal liquor during Prohibition.
What is a bootlegger?
Prohibition generated disrespect for the law and promoted....
Organized Crime
The American Civil Liberties Union hired him to represent John T. Scopes in the Monkey Trail.
Who is Clarence Darrow?
Arrested for teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee law.
Who is John T. Scopes?
A literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
An underground saloon or nightclub where liquor was sold illegally.
What is a speakeasy?
Prohibition was ended in 1933 by this legislation.
What is the 21st Amendment?
He was called as a witness in the Scopes trial as an expert on the Bible.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
1st woman to swim the English Channel, setting a new world record.
What is Gertrude Ederle?
Trumpet player considered the single most important and influential musician in the history of jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Incident in which Al Capone's Gang entered a garage and machine-gunned members of the Moran Gang.
What is St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
Jobs included nurses, librarians, clerical workers
Jobs that were considered "Women's Jobs"
First American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, he took aim at the shallow, stifling existence of middle-class America in such novels as Main Street and Babbitt.
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
A civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color."
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?