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Section 1: Prohibition America
Section 2: A Changing Population
Section 3: America at
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What is an example of a specific group that supported the temperance and prohibition movement?
Anti-Saloon League, Women's Christian Temperance Movement
100
The number of federal officers that were charged the task of enforcing Prohibition
1,500
100
interests that many people follow with great excitement for a short time (hair-dos, clothes, etc.)
fads
100
The ______________ got its name from the music that was very popular in the 1920s.
The Jazz Age
100
People involved in transporting alcohol illegally were known as
bootleggers
200
The banning of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
prohibition
200
The movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities in order to escape racism and poverty
The Great Migration
200
when education and literacy increased in the country... this industry flourished
Newspapers, Magazines, etc..
200
A period of great African American artistic achievement
The Harlem Renaissance
200
High school science teacher that was arrested for teaching evolution
John Scopes (Scopes Trial)
300
Secret illegal clubs that sold alcohol
Speakeasies
300
The percentage of the population that supported Prohibition in the late 1920s
19-20%
300
The first ever animated movie with sound
Steamboat Willie
300
African American poet that became popular during the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
300
The belief that the Bible is literally true and can be relied on as an unquestioned authority.
Fundamentalism
400
Name the amendment that made alcohol illegal AND name the amendment that made it legal again.
18th Amendment - banned alcohol 21st Amendment - ended prohibition
400
A trial that focused on teaching the theory of evolution in schools
Scopes Trial
400
The first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
400
Artist known for urban scenes and paintings of the southwest
Georgia O'Keeffe
400
What effect did the Great Migration have on cities in the 1920s?
Riots, protests, and clashes with Nativists often resulted
500
Two groups of people who sold alcohol illegally
Bootleggers, Moonshiners
500
African American leader from Jamaica that supported black nationalism. He wanted African Americans to become economically independent and eventually go back to Africa. Eventually he was sent back to Jamaica.
Marcus Garvey
500
The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Attempted to fly around the world but disappeared.
Amelia Earhart
500
Wrote the book "The Great Gatsby" among many others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
500
One of the most famous musicians of the Jazz Age and arguably the best trumpet player of all time.
Louis Armstrong