Consumerism
This culture flourished as the lives of millions of Americans were transformed by an increasing abundance of goods and technologies
What is consumer culture?
This event led masses of African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West
What is the Great Migration?
This term means the right to vote
What is suffrage?
This was the prohibiting of the distribution and manufacture of alcohol
What is prohibition?
This was a cause of the Great flood of 1927
What is heavy rainfall in Northern states?
This flood aided the rise of Huey Long
What is the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927?
These industries became more common in the 1900s in Louisiana
What is oil, timber, and gas?
This technology allowed young Americans more freedom in the 1920s
What is the automobile?
This city became the home to 200,000 African Americans in the 1920s
Where is Harlem?
These women created NAWSA in order to get women's suffrage
Who is Elizabeth Cady Staton and Susan B. Anthony?
This amendment began the prohibition era
What is the 18th amendment?
To save New Orleans the levee in this parish was dynamited
Where is St. Bernard Parish?
This is the first position Huey Long held.
What is the Louisiana Railroad Commission?
These are the consequences of the new industries that came to Louisiana
What is erosion and pollution?
This innovation allowed products to be created cheaper and faster
What is the assembly line?
This trumpeter became known for increasing the popularity of jazz in the 1920s
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Alice Paul and the National Women's Party used this strategy to gain the right to vote
What is petitioning?
This became a consequence of the prohibition era
What is organized crime?
The effects of the disaster were heaviest on these people.
Who are African Americans?
Long vigorously opposed these companies that did not allow competition
What are monopolies?
This was considered a benefit of the new industries that came about in the 1900s
What is an increased standard of living?
This industry grew as more people traveled for business or vacation
What is the hospitality industry?
This singer was known as the First Lady of Song
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
Women gained the right to vote after their role in this war
What is World War I?
This amendment repealed prohibition
What is the 21st amendment?
The Flood of 1927 caused African Americans to join this movement
What is the Great Migration?
Long favored lowering these rates for the poor
What are utilities?
The flappers challenged this role during the 1920s
What is the traditional role of women?
This appliance caused stations to spring up across the country
What are radios?
This movement revived African American art, writing, and music in America
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
The flood caused African Americans to change their political affiliation to this party
What is the Democratic Party?
Long's Share Our Wealth program was closer related to this type of economic and political system
What is communism?
Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart are considered these
What are aviators/pilots?
Jesse Owens and Babe Ruth were considered
What are athletes?