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

Which two types of media served as a unifying force in American culture in the 1920's and '30's?

What are radio and movies?

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

This helped convince people that they needed the things they wanted, leading to increased consumerism

What is advertising?

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
Term associated with spying and infiltration of communist ideologies in America

What is espionage?

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

Unintended consequences of Prohibition

What is organized crime?

400

The reason why jazz became so popular in American cities during the 1920's

What is the Great Migration / the movement of African Americans from the South to the North, where they could hear the music

500

This woman took her first flight in 1920, and set several flight records for women including the first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932

Who is Amelia Earhart?

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

The name given to people that made alcohol illegally

What are bootleggers?

500

This is how the 19th Amendment affected American culture

What is women gaining the right to vote, and challenging social roles through fashion and activities?

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