Prohibition
The name of the law against production and selling of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
What is Broadway?
The majority group in terms of ethnicity in Harlem?
What are African Americans?
What is World War 1?
An invention that changed mass communication forever that became a household necessity in the 1920
What are radios?
The organization that fought against modernity and racial equality and became eerily popular in the 1920s
What is Ku Klux Klan? (KKK)
The name of the illegal bars where alcohol was sold during prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
The name of a famous musical from the 1920s that is still played today that refers to a vessel (ship)
What is Show Boat?
The famous jazz band leader who became an icon of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Duke Ellington?
A group of women with short hair, rising hemlines and a love for independence, parties and fun!
Who were the flappers
An invention which meant that traveling all over the US became widespread, also for ordinary folks
What are cars?
The approximate number of members of the KKK in the US in the 1920s?
What is 4 million people?
A form of illegal liquor consisting of sugar, yeast and water?
What is moonshine?
The number of theatres on Broadway at the peak in the late 1920
What is between 70-80?
The name of the famous jazz club that became a hub for jazz musicians in the USA
A group of women who explored freedom and partying to the max - also sexually
Who were the Vamps?
The way that most people bought stuff in the second half of the 1920s
What is credit?
The famous song about lynchings in the South during segregation
What is 'Strange Fruit'?
The exact years when prohibition was the official law
When was 1920-1933?
A population group related to religious affiliation that was larger in this city than any other city in the US.
What is the Jewish population?
The reason why many African Americans migrated to Harlem.
What is to escape racism and prejudice in the South
A modern invention that contributed to a sense of freedom for many women
What are cars?
The percentage of farms that had electricity in 1922
What is 3%?
The approximate number of people lynched in the USA
What is 200?
The name of the famous Chicago mobster who made a fortune during prohibition?
Who was Al Capone?
The street where most advertising agencies were located
What is Madison Avenue?
A famous writer who wrote poems and novels and became a celebrated literary figure in the Harlem Renaissance
Who was Langston Hughes?
A Hollywood film by Quentin Tarantino from the 1990s with a female character inspired by the 1920s' flapper fashion?
What is Pulp Fiction?
The approximate number of radio stations in the US in the late 1920s
What is 600?
The nickname of the segregation laws introduced in many states under the motto 'separate but equal'
What were the 'Jim Crow Laws'?