Prohibition
Prohibition in the U.S. lasted from 1920 to 1933 due to this constitutional amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The Great Migration primarily involved African Americans moving from this region to northern cities.
What is the South?
These young women challenged traditional gender roles with short hair, short skirts, and bold behavior.
What are flappers?
This invention, produced cheaply using assembly-line methods, helped change transportation in America.
What is the automobile or Model T?
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement celebrating African American art, music, and literature centered in this New York neighborhood.
What is Harlem?
People who illegally made or sold alcohol during Prohibition were called this.
What are bootleggers?
African Americans moved north in search of these two main opportunities.
What are jobs and freedom from racial discrimination?
This political change was a major victory for women and led to more women's rights and changes.
What is voting?
This new household technology allowed Americans to listen to news, sports, and music in real time.
What is the radio?
He became known as “The Sultan of Swat” and one of the most famous baseball players of the 1920s.
Who is Babe Ruth?
Secret bars or clubs where alcohol was illegally served were known as this.
What are speakeasies?
This style of music, originating in African American communities, became the defining sound of the 1920s.
What is Jazz music?
This group saw a resurgence in the 1920s, targeting African Americans, immigrants, Catholics, and Jews.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Buying goods with credit instead of cash was called buying “on ___.”
What is installment buying or buying on credit?
This appliance, first widely adopted in the 1920s, allowed Americans to store perishable food safely at home.
What is the refrigerator?
Prohibition ended with this amendment, repealing the 18th Amendment
What is the 21st Amendment?
This movement encouraged African Americans to celebrate their culture, art, poetry, music and fight racial prejudice.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
He revolutionized mass production with the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
By the end of the 1920's, most Americans were living here.
What are Urban areas?
This notorious gangster became a symbol of organized crime during Prohibition.
Who is Al Capone?
This poet, known for works like "I, Too" became one of the most famous voices of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Americans who feared foreign influence and preferred native-born citizens were called this.
What are nativists?
This nickname described the economic boom and new household gadgets of the decade.
What is consumerism?
The fear of communism spreading to the U.S. after World War I led to this nationwide panic.
What is the Red Scare?