African Americans
What was the reason for the Great Migration?
African Americans didn't like the way they were treated in the South, so they moved to the Midwest and Northeast.
What Amendment allowed women to vote?
The 19th Amendment
What Amendment prohibited alcohol?
The 18th Amendment
Why was the teaching of evolution banned from schools in Tennessee?
After John Scopes taught the history of evolution at school, he was taken to trial because it went against peoples religious beliefs.
What was the first major talking movie?
The Jazz Singer
Who was Marcus Garvey
Created the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which helped African Americans move back to Africa, and promote Black pride and unity.
Who are flappers?
Flappers are young women that would wear more skin showing clothing, and were the symbol of women in the 1920's
What was the reason for prohibition?
People wanted to conserve the grains for the troops during WWI, and women were upset that their husbands would come home drunk and some would abuse them
Where were the worst race riots in 1919?
Chicago
Cars made it easier to move to the suburbs because why?
They used to have to live in the cities so people could get to work quick and families in rural areas were isolated.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
An African American cultural movement that celebrated Black traditions, the Black voice, and Black ways of life.
Why did women want suffrage?
Women wanted the right to vote in elections and be able to work.
What are Bootleggers?
Illegal alcohol smugglers
Social tensions led to growth of the KKK because of what?
Prohibition sparked the KKK at this time, and they promoted racism, anti-semitism, anti-catholicism, anti-immigrants.The group grew in the West, Midwest, and the South.
What were some new inventions in the 1920's?
Hair dryers, Reeses Peanut Butter cups, Kool-Aid, the radio
Why is Langston Hughes an important person?
What were women not allowed to do?
In some state, women weren't allowed to be on juries or keep their earnings.
What are speakeasies?
Speakeasies were places that people would drink illegally and they would be designed as offices, hospitals, ect.This led to crime and gangs.
Why did farmers competition lead to them to having low prices?
Farmers produced to much of what they had.
KDKA was the first what?
Radio station
Some famous African American artists, writers in 1920's
Writers-Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen
Artists-Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and Ethel Waters
Women lost most of their jobs because
When the men were coming back from WWI, they started working at their old jobs again.
Why did prohibition come to an end?
So many people were selling, making, and using speakeasies as a way to still drink, that congress figured that it would be better for it to not be banned.
The National Origins Act was
The restrictions of immigrants based on the numbers of them based on where the were from.
What sport was the most popular in the 1920's?
Baseball