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Mass movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities
What is the Great Migration?
Baseball legend who symbolized the rise of sports culture
Who is Babe Ruth?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote in 1920
What is the 19th Amendment?
Cultural movement centered in Harlem celebrating Black art and music
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Fear of immigrants and foreigners during the 1920s
What is nativism?
Buying goods over time instead of paying all at once
What is installment buying?
Secret clubs where alcohol was illegally sold during the 1920s
What is a speakeasy?
First person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Scandal involving government corruption during Harding’s presidency
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Young women who challenged traditional behavior with new fashion and attitudes
What are flappers?
Law that limited immigration using quotas based on nationality
What is the National Origins Act?
Term for the push to buy more goods in the 1920s
What is consumerism?
Fear of communism that led to raids and arrests in 1920
What is the Red Scare?
Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote “I, Too”
Who is Langston Hughes?
First movie with sound released in the 1920s
What is The Jazz Singer?
Type of music that defined the 1920s and became extremely popular
What is jazz?
Why Sacco and Vanzetti were controversial
What is they were seen as unfairly convicted due to anti-immigrant bias?
One benefit of buying on credit
What is being able to afford expensive goods?
Trial about teaching evolution in schools in Tennessee
What is the Scopes Trial?
Civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Stock market crash event that helped start the Great Depression
What is Black Tuesday?
Why African Americans moved North during the Great Migration
What is to escape racism and find jobs?
Bryan’s argument in the Scopes Trial
What is schools should teach religion/morality instead of evolution?
One drawback of buying on credit
What is debt/interest payments?
Immigration policy that limited how many people could enter the U.S.
What is the quota system?
President who promoted “Return to Normalcy”
Who is Warren G. Harding?
Agreement where countries promised not to go to war
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Message of Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too”
What is equality and hope for inclusion in American society?
U.S. foreign policy approach after WWI
What is isolationism?
Why mass production increased during the 1920s
What is demand for consumer goods?