Prohibition & Culture
The ____________ Act made any drink with more than 1% alcohol illegal, including beer and wine.
What was the Volstead Act?
Many moved out of the South to take advantage of employment opportunities in the North.
What was the Great Migration?
A cultural explosion in the 1920s where African American artists, musicians & writers celebrated black life through their art
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Americans feared immigrants were bringing dangerous ideas like communism and anarchism.
What is the Red Scare?
Many people were buying these items for the first time
What are radios, refrigerators, vacuums, washing machines, and cars? Appliances to make life easier.
The most popular American celebrity of the 1920s.
Who was Babe Ruth?
The inventor of the 1st automobile
Who was Henry Ford?
Genres of African American music that became popular in the 1920s
What is Swing/Jive, Jazz, and Blues music?
Two Italian immigrants were accused of robbery and murder in the 1920s, and many thought they were treated unfairly because of their background and beliefs.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
Listeners could hear this being broadcast over the radio in the 1920s.
What are music, news, sporting events, and shows? Any combination
Which U.S. President was known for his quiet demeanor, which earned him the nickname “Silent Cal”?
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
A business innovation where a product moves across a conveyor belt in a factory
What is an assembly line?
This 1920s dance craze started as an African American folk dance in the South
What is the Charleston?
In the 1920s, the U.S. government searched people’s homes looking for suspected anarchists and communists.
What were the Palmer Raids?
These laws created segregation of blacks and whites in the South
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Made the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927 and was important in starting commercial air travel.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
A way of purchasing a product with borrowed money that could be paid off at a later date.
What is buying on credit?
A young woman who embraced a care-free lifestyle & was viewed by many as outrageous & immoral/improper
What is a Flapper?
John Scopes was put on trial for teaching the Theory of __________ in public schools.
What is evolution?
Passed in 1919, this amendment made it illegal to make, sell, or transport alcohol in the United States
What was the 18th Amendment?
A person who made their living by transporting & selling alcohol illegally.
What is a bootlegger?
This Act, passed in 1924, reduced the number of settlers allowed into the United States.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
I controlled most of the illegal activities involving bootlegging & speakeasies, especially in Chicago
Who is Al Capone?
These two groups clashed over religion and science: one embraced new ideas, while the other stuck to traditional beliefs.
Who are Modernists and Traditionalists?
Passed in 1933, this amendment repealed the 18th Amendment and ended Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?