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?
This president was elected on his platform of minimal government, high tariffs, and low taxes.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
A belief in the promise of science and technology to improve society.
Modernism
This man flew from New York to Paris solo and in one flight.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
These women rejected traditional values, wore skirts, and attended dance halls
Who are flappers?
What new technological device connected Americans and provided entertainment and information in a way that was not previously possible?
Radio
19th
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?
The first American baseball celebrity.
Babe Ruth
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?
What led to Prohibition?
18th amendment
This term refers to people who smuggled or otherwise transported illegal liquor in the United States
Who are bootleggers?
People used this term to describe the growth in music, dance, literature, theatre, and other forms of art in Harlem in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Hollywood became a major industry in the 1920s. Who was one of the early popular actors in the U.S.?
Charlie Chaplin
Many Americans believed these men were killed because they were immigrants with radical beliefs.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
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?
Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A traditional way of thinking, rooted in a literal interpretation of the words of the Bible.
fundamentalism
Famous bootlegger who got in trouble
Al Capone
One reason for 1919-1920 Red Scare.
1917 Communist Revolution in Russia
In order to efficiently transport, produce and sell illegal alcohol this type of illegal activity became rampant across America
Became president when Harding died and supported big businesses.
Coolige