Women's Suffrage
the right to vote.
Suffrage
Buying something with a loan of money to pay it later
credit
was a Jazz Age burst of prosperity and freedom for flappers and others during the Prohibition era, until the economy crashed in 1929.
Roaring Twenties
was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
Harlem Renaissance
The law that granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
people who smuggled liquor into the United States during Prohibition.
Bootlegger
The name of goods created and sold. The production increased in the 1920s
Consumer goods
The women with the hatchet
Carrie Nation
was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
Great Migration
a young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress
Flapper
In the late 1800's and early 1900's the movement to ban alcohol production and sales in the US was known as
Prohibition
The method used to increase the production of consumer goods - like the Model T
Assembly Line
The war that happened before the 1920's
World War I
American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music.
Jazz
An individual that supported and fought for the right for women to vote. like Susan B. Anthony
Suffragette
An place where people could go to illegally drink alcohol, typically disguised as business.
Speakeasy
The result of increased prosperity and access to consumer goods like the washing machine.
Leisure
The Declaration made by women to advocate for their right vote.
Declaration of Sentiments
The treatment of African Americans in the U.S. with the Tulsa massacre and St. Louis massacre
inequality
How did the role of women change in the 1920s?
Before the war: no rights
During WWI: in factories
After WWI: flappers, can vote
The criminal activities that are planned and controlled by powerful groups and carried out on a large scale. - mostly to sell alcohol
Organized Crime
the belief that excessive consumption of goods has a positive effect on the economy and that companies should create goods and services that consumers most desire.
Consumerism
The movement to ban alcohol
Temperance Movement
The themes of artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance revealed that African-Americans were
gaining confidence and pride in their cultural achievements. - life experiences