Women of the 1920s
African American Experience
1920s Technology
Prohibition
100

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'?

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?
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. Constitution.

What was the 18th Amendment?

200
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
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

Liquor, during the 1920s, was sold behind closed doors in establishments that went by this name.

What were speakeasies?

300
Women had made political progress by working in industrial factories during World War I due to most men serving in this role.
What was a soldier?
300

Wildly popular 1920s jazz musician who played the trumpet. 

Who was Louis Armstrong?

300

The growth of this industry was largely responsible for much of the prosperity of the 1920s economy. 

What is the automobile industry? 

300

The battle over Prohibition was more than a moral battle as Americans sought to decrease the cultural influence of this particular group of immigrants in America.

Who were the German Americans?

400

After WWI ended, women entered these "women's professions."

What is teaching, nursing, clerical. 

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

The role of housewives was made easier by new appliances of the time, such as...

What is the washing machine, sewing machine, electric stove, vacuum, etc. 

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?

500
Before passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, women had already gained the right to vote by 1896 in anyone one of these four western states.
What was Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, or Idaho?
500

Leader who advocated for the complete separation of blacks and that they should form their own, separate society. 

Who is Marcus Garvey?
500

Major advancements in airplanes allowed these two individuals (first male, first female) to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. 

Who were Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart? 

500

This amendment repealed Prohibition. 

What is the 21st?

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