Harlem Renaissance
In what city did the Harlem Renaissance begin?
What is New York City?
This part of New York city was known as the center of jazz music and culture during the 1920s.
What is Harlem?
This was when many African Americans MOVED from the South to northern Cities and the west.
What is the Great Migration?
This was a nickname for the 1920's because the time period was so prosperous.
What is the Roaring 20s?
This cultural movement emphasized the importance of African American culture and was centered in Harlem.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This was the occupation of Langston Hughes in the Harlem Renaissance?
What is a writer.
This type of music, including artists like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, became the hallmark of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is jazz?
This amendment in 1920 gave women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the 19th Amendment
This method of BUYING stocks became popular in the 1920s, contributing to the stock market boom and crash.
What is buying on on the margin?
This name for women symbolized new freedoms for women in the 1920s.
What is a flapper?
The famous FEMALE blues singer of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who was Bessie Smith?
The ideas and music of this was spread throughout the US, even to the white culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This famous TRIAL in 1925 debated the teaching of evolution in schools (John Scopes)
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This event in the stock market in 1929 led to the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This amendment made it illegal to produce, sell, or transport alcohol.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
Who is Duke Ellington?
This famous jazz musician who played the trumpet.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This ACT of 1924 restricted IMMIGRATION by creating quotas for certain countries.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This is the market many Americans started to invest in the 1920's.
What is the stock market?
The Harlem Renaissance was related to these 3 types of art (need at least 2)? Think Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, and Jacob Lawrence
What is music, painting, and writing?
This was the type of music that was primarily played during the Harlem Renaissance.
What is Jazz?
He was a famous African American painter in the Harlem Renaissance..
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
This event was when the US was afraid (scared) of a communist takeover (Think color)
What is Red Scare?
This was the famous type of Ford car (think letter)
What is the MODEL T?
These secret bars emerged during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?