The Gilded Age
African Americans and the Harlem Renaissance
1920s Technology
Prohibition
Random Facts
100

These people worked as investigative Journalists. They exposed several terrible things about the Gilded Age.

Who are Muckrakers?

100

A cultural shift of the 1920s, African Americans began expressing a new attitude through art, music, and other forms of culture, especially in this district of New York City.

What was Harlem Renaissance?

100
This technological advancement's widespread use allowed American to continue with work and recreation into the night.
What is the electric light bulb?
100
Prohibition was passed in the beginning of the 1920s as this amendment (number) of the U.S. Consitution.
What was the 18th Amendment?
100
Women had made significant political and social progress in the 1920s when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed them this.
What is the right to vote?
200

These were organizations that were meant to champion workers' rights and organize strikes.

What are Unions?

200
One expression of the new attitude of African Americans in the 1920s blended their cultural experiences from West Africa and the southern United States into this form of music
What was jazz music?
200
During the 1920s, Americans were able to gain a greater sense of national identity by sharing in the music, news, stories, and jokes they heard on this technological innovation that no one could live without.
What was the radio?
200
Women of the 1920s who pushed the boundaries and broke the traditions previously held by society regarding a woman's role in the social order were known by this term.
What were 'flappers'?
200

This mode of transportation was made popular at this time, it was instrumental for modern American life.

What is the Model T/ Car?

300

His book The Jungle is one of the great pieces of Muckraker literature.

Who is Upton Sinclair?

300
African Americans sought to leave the South in the 1920s in order gain greater financial independence working in industrial jobs in the North than they had achieved working in this agricultural system of labor
What was sharecropping?
300
Through the 1920s cars, especially the Model T, dropped significantly in price due to this innovation of efficiency, introduced by Henry Ford.
What was the assembly line?
300
Liquor, during the 1920s, was sold behind closed doors in establishments that went by this name.
What were speakeasies?
300

This man was a crime boss, who dealt in bootlegging. He was responsible for the St. Valentines Day massacre. 

Who is Al Capone?
400

These were conglomerates of businesses that controlled the entire supply and demand chain for one product.

What are Trusts/Monopolies? 

400
As African Americans pursued industrial work in the North, post-World War I, African American populations increased in major northern urban areas by as much as 600% in a movement known by this name
What was the Great Migration?
400
This technology of the 1920s was readily visible to visitors of cities, allowing for continued growth of urban areas when there was no longer new territory in which to spread out.
What was the skyscraper?
400
This American woman believed that she was obeying God in taking up the fight against the sale and consumption of alcohol throughout the country by destroying bars and speaking to students on college campus in the late 1800s
Who was Carry Nation?
400

This man ran a criminal/political ring in New York. He was a real jerk of a boss.

Who is Boss Tweed?

500

Known as the Trust Buster, this man was our first Progressive President.

Who is Teddy Roosevelt? 

500
Tensions arose between African Americans and Whites in the summer of 1919 in the city of Chicago, leading to race riots, after an African American boy was struck by rock thrown by White boys while swimming in this Great Lake.
What was Lake Michigan?
500
The first radio broadcast in the U.S. happened in the 1920s on a factory rooftop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the station KDKA, airing the results of this national event.
What was the (1920) Presidential election (returns)?
500
This German American industrialist (sometimes called the "Emperor of Beer") gained great support in the fight against Prohibition by influencing members of Congress and even U.S. Presidents to protect the brewery industry.
Who was Adolphus Busch?
500

This animator, anti-Semite, and future 'Frozen' head, started his career in the 1920s. 

Who is Walt Disney?

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