1920s Culture
This style of music was brought to northern cities by southern African Americans
What is Jazz?
The new way of thinking and behaving encouraged pleasure, leisure, personal freedom, and a culture of consumption instead of restraint.
New Morality
What was the name of the law pass by Congress that severely limited immigration in 1920s?
National Origins Act
What was one major push factor for Great Migration?
-Racial violence
-Bad schools
-Limited economic opportunity
-Jim Crow Laws blocking voting and segregating society
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
The Scopes trial was about whether or not to teach this in schools.
What is theory of evolution/ Darwinism?
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?
What activity/technology led to the rise of Hollywood and actor-celebrities in 1920s?
The Motion Picture
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?
What is and where is Harlem?
neighborhood in NYC, in Manhattan
outwardly displayed values of restraint, religious morality, strict social code conduct
Victorian Values
Famous bootlegger and gangster, pioneered mob and organized crime
Al Capone
One reason for 1919-1920 Red Scare.
1917 Communist Revolution in Russia
What is the cultural significance of the Harlem Rennaissance?
-Creation of spectacular art & music
-African American culture entered mainstream mass culture of U.S. through Jazz music
-Led to optimism and pride in Black community that would be foundational to later Civil Rights Movement