The Experience of Women
Along with factory jobs, women also earned the right to vote through their hard work on this particular type of family-owned land.
What were farms?
As African Americans pursued industrial work in the North, 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?
This technological advancement's widespread use allowed American to continue with work and recreation into the night.
What was the electric light bulb?
The nickname given to the decade of fast cars, loud music, and changing culture.
What was the Roaring Twenties?
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?
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?
The high-profit black market created massive wealth for mobsters like Al Capone in Chicago and Owney Madden in New York. This is called...
What was organized crime?
A "shanty town" made of cardboard and scrap wood, named after the President people blamed for being poor.
What were Hoovervilles?
Women were new to the workforce and faced restrictions such as...
What was lower wages?
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?
An invention from Henry Ford’s moving assembly line that revolutionized transportation.
What was the Model T car?
Someone who illegally made or smuggled alcohol during the 1920s.
What was a bootlegger?
The method of buying things (like radios or stocks) where you pay a little now and the rest later.
What is credit?
Women had made significant political and social progress in the 1920s when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed them this.
What was the right to vote or suffrage?
A new type of film released by the Warner Bros. that broke barriers.
What are "talkies" or sound film?
Prohibition was passed in the beginning of the 1920s as this amendment (number) of the U.S. Consitution.
What was the 18th Amendment?
A period of severe dust storms that ruined farms in the Great Plains during the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
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?
The unfair practice where banks drew lines on maps to decide which neighborhoods would not get loans.
What was redlining?
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 that occurs every 4 years.
What was the Presidential election?
This amendment ended Prohibition of alcohol nationwide.
What was the 21st amendment?
This event began in 1929 and lead to recessions across the globe.
What is the Great Depression?