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What is the nickname for the 1920’s?
Roaring 20’s
What is the famous jazz nightclub in Harlem?
Cotton Club
October 29, 1929 is also known as?
Black Tuesday
What is the 19th Amendment?
Women's right to vote
What number amendment banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages?
18th
How did people find out about speakeasies?
The Red Summer of 1919 showed an increase of what?
White on Black Violence
Installment buying is also known as what?
Buying on credit
What is a speakeasy?
pop-up hidden bars
What was the name of the black segregated high school in Moss Point?
Magnolia High School
Where did Mr. Briggs go to college?
Alcorn State University
What number president is Calvin Coolidge?
30th
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What is the nickname for the Sears, Roebuck & Co. mail order catalog?
Consumer’s Bible
What's Mr. Briggs Favorite color?
Blue
The National Prohibition Act is also known as?
Volstead Act
Who wrote the song Strange Fruit?
Billie Holiday
What laws restricted the lives of African Americans after slavery?
Jim Crow Laws
Black Codes
Why is the Cotton Club so important?
Although it hosted many famous black musicians, it only allowed white audiences
Name one of the leading temperance organizations of the 1920’s?
Women Christian Temperance Union
Anti-Saloon League
Who is known as the ‘Father of the National Prohibition Movement?
Morris Sheppard
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
How many votes did Warren G Harding win in his presidential election?
404
Who coined the phrase New Negro Movement?
Alain Leroy Locke
What did ‘Coolidge Prosperity’ promise to do?
Slash taxes and support legislation that encouraged private business