1920s Review

Women

100

This term was used to describe young, independent women in the 1920's who went against social norms, embraced new fashions, and engaged in modern behaviors lie smoking and drinking in public? 

Flappers

200

This major event in 1920 marked a turning point for women's rights in the United States?

Women's right to vote, 19th Amendment.

300

Suffragettes was the name given to women who were fighting for what?

Voting Rights

400

This League was primarily made up of women who were fighting to outlaw the use of alcohol in America.

Temperance League

Inventions

100

This product was mass produced and became a symbol of consumerism in 1920s culture. 

Automobile

200

The 1920s introduced the practice of purchasing items by making payments also called...

Credit Economy

300

Electronic appliances like vacuum cleaners and washing machines helped give women more free which resulted in women being able to do what?

Get jobs.

400

This invention connected rural and urban Americans by allowing them to listen to national broadcasts.

Radio

Prohibition

100

the ban on the sale, manufacture, and distribution of alcohol.

Prohibition

200

This Amendment to the US Constitution enacted Prohibition. 

18th Amendment

300

This Amendment repealed (ended) Prohibition.

21st Amendment

400

These were underground bars and night clubs where people would come to dance, listen to jazz, and drink alcohol. 

Speakeasys

Harlem Ren

100

The primary culture that was celebrated and promoted by the Harlem Renaissance. 

African American Culture.

200

Langston Hughes was a popular figure of the Harlem Ren for this type of work.

Poetry/writing

300

This man was critical in the promotion of the Harlem Ren and also was a founder of the NAACP.

WEB Dubois

400

The most famous Jazz composer/singer in the 1920s, known for his trumpet play and unique voice.

Louis Armstrong

Nativism

100

This organization had a resurgence of membership during the 1920s which promoted Americanism and white-protestant values. 

KKK

200

This was the name given to the widespread fear of the spread of Communism.

Red Scare

300

This group believed the U.S. should limit immigration and prioritize the interests of native-born Americans.

Nativists

400

Immigrant groups thought to be promoting radicalism and socialist ideas would have been primary targets for these raids.

Palmer Raids.