Economic Boom
What invention brought the country together and made it easier to listen to sports?
Radio
What was the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North called?
Great Migration
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th
What was the name given to the "rebirth" of African American culture during the 1920s?
Harlem Renaissance
What was the name given to women in the 1920s who wore their hair & dresses short and acted freely?
Flappers
What areas saw the greatest growth after cars became more widespread?
Suburbs
How did KKK membership change in the 1920s?
It increased (& expanded to North)
True/False - The 19th Amendment specifically said only white women could vote.
False
Who was the painter who depicted the Great Migration in his work?
Jacob Lawrence
True/False - There was no discrimination in the North.
False
What invention lowered the price of a Ford Model T?
The assembly line
Who was the teacher arrested for trying to teach evolution in his classroom?
John Scopes
Which two amendments are associated with Prohibition?
18th & 21st
What was Louis Armstrong known for?
Music (jazz music/trumpet playing)
What does it mean to take away a law or amendment?
Repeal
Because of new inventions, people had more __________ time to do things they enjoyed.
Leisure
What was the period of intense fear and paranoia over communism called?
Red Scare
What movement wanted to limit the consumption of alcohol in America?
Temperance Movement
What novel did F. Scott Fitzgerald write about the glitz and glamour of the 1920s?
The Great Gatsby
Name one reason why Prohibition was ended.
- crime & corruption increased
- government lost money, too expensive
- Great Depression - people needed a drink & jobs
What allowed people to have so many new household appliances in their homes?
Electricity
List one example of backlash to the more diverse immigration of the 1920s.
-literacy tests required for immigrants
-immigration banned from Asia
-quotas (limits) set on immigration
List one strategy the women's suffrage movement used to get the right to vote.
-trying to get a Constitutional amendment passed
-picketing/protesting
-going on hunger strikes (refusing to eat)
-going to prison
Who was the poet and author who used a new style called "jazz-poetry"?
Langston Hughes
Name 5 inventions of the 1920s.
Electricity, Cars, Assembly Line, Vacuum Cleaner, Washing Machine, Radio, Toaster, Traffic Light, Refrigerated Transport, Telephone