Show:
Section 1: Prohibition America
Section 2: A Changing Population
Section 3: America at
Play
Section 4:
The Arts
Everything
100
The name for women in the 1920s that described there loose style of clothing
Flappers
100
Law that set the total U.S. immigration to 357,000 per year after immigration greatly increased
Emergency Quota Act
100
HI
HI
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
early movie theater; admission was 5 cents.
nickelodeon
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
Law that completely stopped Japanese immigration.
Immigration Act of 1924
300
movies with music or dialogue
talkies
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
Law that gave all American Indians the legal and voting rights of United States citizens.
Indian Citizenship Act
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
introduced the American public to cubism and other new painting styles
Armory Show
500
A group that asked its members only to vote for people who would ban the use of alcohol
Anti Saloon League
500
African American leader from Jamaica that supported black nationalism. He wanted African Americans to become economically independent and to take pride in their African heritage. 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
People who leave their native country to live somewhere else.
expatriates
500
Writers of the _______________ were critical of the values of postwar American society.
The Lost Generation