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
He was the Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China; he also established the Yuan Dynasty in China.
What was Kublai Khan?
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
Considered to be the greatest ruler of the Mughal Dynasty, he was know for his religious tolerance; he created Din-i-Ilahi ("Faith of the Divine"), a combo of Hindu, Islam, and Christianity; he was also patron of the arts/literature.
Who was Akbar?
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
Shared in common by the Aztec Empire, the Tang Dynasty, and the Mongol Empire, these three groups collected money from weaker or conquered societies through this system.
What is the tribute system?
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
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 term, which comes from an ancient Greek word meaning "to scatter about," is a large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have since moved out to places all over the world.