1920s Culture
This style of music was brought to northern cities by southern African Americans
What is Jazz?
In order to convince people to buy their goods and services companies started using this tactic.
What is advertising?
Hate group that targeted Black Americans, Jews, Catholics, etc and marched in Washinton D.C. following a resurgence
Who is KKK?
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th amendment
This political party dominated the 1920s and believed in high tariffs and law taxes, they also believed that what was good for business was good for America
These women rejected traditional values, wore skirts, and attended dance halls
Who are flappers?
60% of Americans purchased this item. It was the most wanted technology of the decade
What is a radio?
U.S. Attorney General that led many anti-immigrant raids targeting Eastern Europeans and Russians due to his fear of communism spreading
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
This is the name given to the movement of large numbers of African Americans from the South to the North in search of better economic opportunity and to escape discrimination.
What is the Great Migration?
Marcus Garvey promoted this black nationalist movement
What is "Back to Africa Movement"?
The economy grew in the 1920s as consumers began to buy goods they could not normally afford and growing their personal debt by using this method
What is buying on credit/installemnt plans? credit plans or credit works
Republican president known for carrying on many scandals but died in office
Who is Warren Harding?
A teacher was arrested in Tennesse for teaching about Evolution
What is the Scopes Trial?
This law defined alcohol as intoxicating liquors and gave clear rules to the 18th amendment of prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act?
People used this term to describe an area of New York experienced a resurgence in music, dance, literature, theatre, and other forms of art in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The prosperity of the 1920s led to new patterns of consumption, or purchasing consumer goods like radios, cars, vacuums, beauty products or clothing
What is consumerism?
Saw a friend lynched and spend the rest of her life advocating for anti-lynching laws
Who is Ida B. Wells
This term describes the fear and distrust towards those deemed as "radicals" during the 1920s. Began due to the Russian Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
This law was the first to put a limit on how many immigrants the United States would accept, it also discriminated against "undesirable" groups
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
Henry Ford's car innovation lay in his use of_______ to manufacture automobiles
What is mass production or the assembly line
This amendment overturned prohibition and allowed congress to collect taxes on alcoholic beverages
What is the 21st amendment?
Many Americans believed these men were killed because they were immigrants with radical beliefs.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
Civil Rights group founded by W.E.B. DuBois (NAACP stands for?)
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This African town was burned to the ground because it was a successfull , self sufficient black community
What is Tulsa?