Tech and Mass Culture
What production method did Henry Ford use to build cars faster and cheaper?
The assembly line
Many African Americans did not refer to the Harlem Renaissance as such but instead called it this...
Holiday of the Spirit
What did the 18th Amendment make illegal across the United States in 1920?
Selling alcohol (Prohibition)
After WWI, many Americans feared that communists were trying to take over the country. What is this period of fear called?
The Red Scare
What amendment gave American women the right to vote in 1920?
The 19th Amendment
What brand-new invention let Americans hear music and news from home for the first time in the 1920s?
The radio
What was the name of the 1920s cultural movement in New York City where Black artists, writers, and musicians celebrated their identity?
The Harlem Renaissance
What were the secret, hidden bars called where people went to drink alcohol during Prohibition?
Speakeasies (illegal bars)
What is the word for the attitude that 'real Americans' were white and Protestant, and that immigrants were a danger to the country?
Nativism
What were the bold young women of the 1920s called who wore short skirts, cut their hair, and rejected old-fashioned gender rules?
Flappers
What type of entertainment, produced in Hollywood, brought millions of Americans to theaters every week?
Movies / Cinema
What style of music- created by Black artists- became so popular that the 1920s are sometimes called the 'Jazz Age'?
Jazz
Prohibition accidentally made gangsters like Al Capone very rich and powerful. Why?
Because alcohol was banned but people still wanted it, so criminals sold it illegally
What did Congress pass in the 1920s to limit how many immigrants — especially from Southern and Eastern Europe — could enter the U.S.?
Immigration quota laws
Besides voting, what new opportunity did women gain more access to in the 1920s?
Jobs / working outside the home
Cheap cars allowed Americans to move to these areas outside of cities. What are they called?
Suburbs
What is the name of the movement where millions of Black Americans moved from the South to northern cities for jobs and freedom?
The Great Migration
In 1925, a Tennessee teacher was put on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in school. What is this famous trial called?
The Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial)
Who were the two Italian immigrant anarchists who were convicted and executed in 1927 in a trial many believed was unfair?
Sacco and Vanzetti
The flapper became a symbol of changing 1920s America. What does her rise tell us about society at the time?
Gender roles were loosening and women were gaining more freedom and independence
Many Americans bought radios and fridges by paying a small amount each month instead of all at once. What is this risky buying habit called?
Buying on credit / installment plans
Who was the famous Harlem Renaissance musician that wrote What a Wonderful World?
Louis Armstrong
The Scopes Trial showed a major conflict in 1920s America. What two sides were clashing?
Modern science vs. traditional religious beliefs
What racist organization made a huge comeback in the 1920s, growing to 4 million members and targeting Black Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants?
The Ku Klux Klan (2nd KKK)
Even with new freedoms in the 1920s, Black women still faced two major forms of discrimination at the same time. What were they?
Racism and sexism