Youth
Flappers of the 1920s were women of this "new" type of American.
What are Moderninsts? (New Woman)
The 18th Amendment to the Constitution outlawed this intoxicant.
What is alcohol?
This American style of music was introduced by African Americans and later caught on around the world.
What is Jazz?
The 1919 general strike in this west coast city was the largest and most impactful.
What is Seattle?
American pilot Charles Lindbergh was the first person in the world to do this.
What is fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean?
This is an accurate description of a flapper.
What is (short hair, colored hair, shorter skirts, drank alcohol, smoked tobacco, wore makeup)?
Many urban Modernists would gather in these places to illegally consume alcohol, so named for the soft tone of voice you would use when mentioning them.
What are speakeasies?
American Writers of of the 1920s, including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, were know as this because of their rejection of both Modernist and Traditionalist views.
What is the Lost Generation?
What political system in which wealth is evenly distributed to all citizens was the focus of fear during the Red Scare?
Like other athletes of the 1920s, this baseball player became a celebrity because he was great at baseball, media brought his performances to a wider audience, and this reason.
What is he made a personal connection to his fans?
Being romantically involved with the opposite gender could just be a fun date for the youth of the 1920s, unlike the Traditionalists' goal of this whenever romantically engaged with someone.
What is marriage?
Use a towel, or dive in the deep end of the pool.... this adjective is used to describe an American who is in favor of the 18th Amendment.
What is dry?
Poets, musicians, and authors from a mostly African American neighborhood of New York City brought on this artistic movement that expressed to the world what it was like to be black in America during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
During 1919 and 1920, several high ranking political officials were targeted by these people, which scared many Americans into thinking that a Communist revolution was happening.
Who are the radicals? (Anarchists, or Communists).
What is Fundamentalism?
In response to youth fashion trends of the 1920s, many Traditionalists made laws in which the length of these could be measured on demand at beaches and swimming pools.
What are women's bathing suits?
The 18th Amendment outlawed the sale, transportation and use of alcohol; also known as this.
What is prohibition?
He was the most popular poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
During the Palmer Raids, over 6000 people were arrested without these, which the Constitution says the police must have in order to arrest someone.
What are warrants? (Probable cause).
This is the reason why the American economy was not very good after World War 1.
What is the government stopped getting involved in labor disputes?
More young people were forced to do this than ever before in the 1920s, creating an environment where young people socialized much more.
What is go to school?
According to Modernists, the 18th Amendment would likely cause an increase in this.
What is crime?
This book from Lost Generation author F. Scott Fitzgerald, was a critique on the consumer culture brought on by Modernists in America during the 1920s.
What is the Great Gatsby?
The federal agents carrying out the Palmer Raids were looking for these people, a term for radical Communists living among the American population.
What are subversives?
This amendment to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th?