1920's Society
What was the hate organization that revived during the 1920's?
What is the Klu Klux Klan
To bump off means
To murder/ kill
What major city is associated with the cultural renaissance of African Americans during the 1920's?
What is Harlem
She is considered one of the greatest female artists of the 20th century. She is best known for her urban scenes and, later, painting of the Southwest.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Which year did women get the right to vote and which amendment?
What was the name of the popular vehicle of the 1920's?
What is the Model T
What is a novelist
a writer
What was a push factor for African Americans leaving the South?
What is Jim Crow Law, lack of opportunities, racism, and violence.
He was a novelist best known for his novels and short stories about America’s “Jazz Age” during the 1920s. One of his major literary works was The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald-
What is a description of a liberal woman in the 1920s
What is flappers
What was the movement that banned the distribution, and sell of alcohol?
What is Prohibition
To keep things copacetic means
All good; things being as they should be
What is the event called of African Americans leaving the South in mass numbers?
What is the Great Migration
These men were composers that wrote a unique style of American music. Gershwin was best known for writing, “Rhapsody in Blue.” Copland wrote classical music flavored with jazz.
George Gershwin and Aaron Copland-
This amendment prohibited alcohol
18th
1920's collectively known as the "Roaring 20's", or the
"Jazz Age"
These women redefined the modern look for British and American women. Flappers wore short skirts, cut their hair short, listened to jazz, and smoke and drank in public.
Flapper
What is the term associated with voting?
What is suffrage
She was one of the blues singers of the 1920s. Her first recording, “Down Hearted Blues” was an immediate success. She was known as the “Empress of the Blues” and was the highest paid African American entertainer in the country.
Bessie Smith-
The amendment repealed the outlaw of alcohol
21st amendment