African Americans
A cultural shift of the 1920s, African Americans began expressing a new attitude through art, music, and other forms of culture, especially in this district of New York City.
What is Harlem, NY?
This technological advancement's widespread use allowed American to continue with work and recreation into the night.
What is the light bulb?
Prohibition was passed in the beginning of the 1920s as this amendment (number) of the U.S. Consitution.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The 1920s saw the development of this type of economy, one that depends on a large amount of spending by consumers.
What is a consumer economy?
Who is Warren G. Harding?
One expression of the new attitude of African Americans in the 1920s blended their cultural experiences from West Africa and the southern United States into this form of music
What is Jazz music?
During the 1920s, Americans were able to gain a greater sense of national identity by sharing in the music, news, stories, and jokes they heard on this technological innovation that no one could live without.
What is the radio?
This amendment repealed the prohibition of alcohol.
What is the 21st amendment?
People used this to purchase goods like furniture, cars, houses, and other goods and would have to pay back later.
What is credit?
This man was a vice president before taking over after a tragic death of the president. Pushed for a "robust economy" and helped reestablish Native American Boarding Schools.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This organization took off in the 1920s expanding to over 5 million members. They disliked, catholics, irish, and african americans.
What is the KKK?
Through the 1920s cars, especially the Model T, dropped significantly in price due to this innovation of efficiency, introduced by Henry Ford.
What is the Assembly Line?
Liquor, during the 1920s, was sold behind closed doors in establishments that went by this name.
What is speakeasies?
The rise in the cost of goods without an increase in wages is called this.
These two men were of Italian Decent and were charged for murder at a shoe factory in Massachusetts.
Who is Sacco and Vinzetti
As African Americans pursued industrial work in the North, post-World War I, African American populations increased in major northern urban areas by as much as 600% in a movement known by this name
What is the Great Migration?
This act only allowed 3% of Europeans from southern and eastern Europe. This was to limit the immigration.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
What is the Palmer Raids?
October 29th, 1929 was a significant day in American history.
What is Black Tuesday?
This man helped create the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) and pushed for African Americans to flee to Africa in search of freedom.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
John Scopes was a substitute teacher that taught the evolution of humans to a class. Led to a controversial topic in trial declaring him guilty. What was this trial called?
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This act only allowed western or northern Europeans to come to America. It was unlimited.
What is the National Origins Act?
This place is where the stock market resides with financial services and American financial power. There is a movie with the name of this location in it. A lot goes on here.
What is Wall Street?
What is the Red Scare?