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Prohibition America
A Changing Population
America at Play
The Arts
Everything
100
The name for women in the 1920s that described there loose style of clothing
Flappers
100
People moved from ________ areas to _________ areas during the 1920s.
Rural-Urban
100
Famous baseball player known for his record setting number of home runs.
Babe Ruth
100
The most popular music club in New York where Duke Ellington was the resident musician
The Cotton Club
100
Combined tradition elements of European music with the new Jazz style. Most famous piece is Rhapsody in Blue.
George Gershwin
200
The banning of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
prohibition
200
The movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities in order to escape racism and poverty
The Great Migration
200
Famous trumpet player who became the face of the Jazz Age
Louis Armstrong
200
A period of great African American artistic achievement
The Harlem Renaissance
200
High school science teacher that was arrested for teaching evolution
John Scopes (Scopes Trial)
300
Secret illegal clubs that sold alcohol
Speakeasies
300
Increasing prosperity and demand for skilled workers led many more children to do this.
attend/graduate high school
300
movies with music or dialogue
talkies
300
African American poet that became popular during the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
300
Author of the Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
400
Name the amendment that made alcohol illegal AND name the amendment that made it legal again.
18th Amendment - banned alcohol 21st Amendment - ended prohibition
400
As a reaction to modernists beliefs the U.S. saw a rise this Protestant movement grounded in the literal interpretation of the Bible.
Fundementalism
400
The first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
400
Artist known for urban scenes and paintings of the southwest
Georgia O'Keeffe
400
Group of writers who were disillusioned with American culture and materialism
The Lost Generation
500
People who smuggled and sold liquor during the 1920s
Bootleggers
500
The leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, he believed African Americans should build a separate society and advocated his followers return to Africa.
Marcus Garvey
500
The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Attempted to fly around the world but disappeared.
Amelia Earhart
500
First African American Actor to star alongside a white female lead.
Paul Robeson
500
The first American to win the Nobel prize for literature
Sinclair Lewis