Women of the 1920s
African American Experience
1920s Technology
Prohibition
Immigration/ Politics
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. Consitution.
What was the 18th Amendment?
100

What policy from 1924 made it so that certain groups of immigrants were limited from coming into the United States?

What is the National Origins Act of 1924?

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?
200

The First Red Scare led to a major fear of who?

Who were Communists and Anarchists? 

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
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
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?
300

The name of the scandal that involved Albert Fall leasing lands to private interests that involved US Navy Reserves

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal? 

400
Along with factory jobs, women also earned the right to vote through their hard work on this particular type of family-owned land throughout the Great War.
What were farms?
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

What new concept was popularized so that people would buy various products? 

What is advertising?

400

People who illegally trafficked liquor.

Who was bootleggers? 

400

Warren G Harding's presidential campaign slogan

What is Return to Normalcy? 

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

This man was a major music composer and band leader from the Harlem Renaissance period that took part in the Jazz movement

Who is Duke Ellington?

500

Which drug was developed in the 1920s to treat, what was a death sentence before, diabetes? 

What was insulin or artificial insulin?

500

Which amendment ended the Prohibition era? 

What is the 21st amendment? 

500

Name two of the three presidents during the 1920s

Who is Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding and Herber Hoover? 

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