Women in the 1920s
This amendment led to women gaining the right to vote
This invention helped reshape American cities and suburbs by increasing personal mobility
What is the Model T?
Advertising blurred the line between information and this, shaping consumer decision-making.
What is Persuasion
Many women supported Prohibition because they believed alcohol caused this problem at home.
What is abuse?
This terror group targeted African Americans, especially poor black sharecroppers during the flood of 1927
What is the Ku Klux Klan
Women were often sent here after they refused to stop protesting for the right to vote
What are prisons or insane asylums?
This Harlem Renaissance musician helped jazz spread beyond Black communities.
Who is Louis Armstrong
Advertising in the 1920s succeeded partly because it exploited Americans’ anxiety about this social concept.
What is Social Status?
Economic pressure during the Great Depression helped overturn Prohibition by emphasizing this government need.
What are Taxes?
responses to the Dust Bowl marked a turning point in this relationship
What is the relationship between the federal government and the environment?
A form of protest in which one starves themself.
What is a hunger strike
This African American poet is known for uplifting the voices of African Americans
Who is Langston Hughes?
Lucky Strike ads targeted women by claiming smoking would help control this, tying consumerism directly to body image.
What is weight?
Because alcohol was illegal, criminal organizations made large profits by controlling this step of the supply chain.
What is distribution?
In Louisiana, oil discoveries weakened the Mississippi River’s economic importance by expanding this competing system.
What is the railroad?