1920s

Society

100

These were young women who changed social norms by wearing shorter hair and dresses and going out regularly

Flappers

200

This type of music became incredibly popular during the 20s

Jazz

300

This was the first known antibiotic developed in the 1920s, which helped kill harmful bacteria and save millions of lives

Penicillin

400

This term refers to he different types of media, entertainment, and technology that make up a society

Pop Culture

500

This is the belief that mass production of goods and people buying them is beneficial for society and the economy

Consumerism

Laws

100

This was the term that referred to segregation laws in southern states that separated white Americans from black Americans

Jim Crow Laws

200

This law gave women the right to vote

19th Amendment

300

When Prohibition took effect, many of these opened up-illegal bars where people could consume alcohol if they knew how to get in

Speakeasies

400

Which amendment created Prohibition and which amendment ended it (you need both for credit)

18th and 21st Amendment

500

This means to put numerical limits on something. The American government put these on immigration for the first time during the 1920s.

Quotas

Fear and Discrimination

100

Name one of the factors that motivated many African Americans to move North during this era

-racial violence

-segregation laws

-more jobs in the North

200

This term refers to the fear of Communist ideas spreading to the United States

Red Scare

300

This white supremacist group carried out acts of violence against black Americans and other minority groups.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

400

This is the belief that people born in a certain country should be prioritized over people born elsewhere

Nativism

500

This event, which took place in Oklahoma, was one of the largest instances of racial violence that has ever occurred in American history but was largely covered up after it happened

Tulsa Massacre

Events

100

This event killed more people than WW1 and WW2 combined

"Spanish Flu" Pandemic

200

This was the period during which alcohol was illegal in the United States

Prohibition

300

This was the emergence of black culture in art, music, and literature that came with many African-Americans moving to Northern citiese

Harlem Renaissance

400

This was the movement of many African-Americans from southern states to northern cities during the late 1800s/early 1900s

The Great Migration

500

The first cross-Atlantic flight by aviator Charles Lindbergh occurred in this year

1927

Miscellaneous

100

This author of The Great Gatsby and other works often depicted the social changes of the 1920s in his books and short stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald

200

This person was the most famous athlete of the 1920s and helped baseball become a "national pastime"

Babe Ruth

300

Al Capone was the most famous gangster of the 1920s, who made a fortune doing this and supplying alcohol to millions of Americans

Bootlegging

400

A man named John Scopes was arrested in Tennessee and put on trial for teaching this to his science students

Darwin's theory of Evolution

500

Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants who were unfairly convicted of murder and sentenced to death largely because they were viewed as "outsiders." In which Massachusetts town did they allegedly commit their crime?

Braintree