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By 1929, this consumer product was the most important consumer product and was so widespread that one for every five Americans owned it.
What is the automobile?
This cultural movement, centered in New York City, celebrated Black art, music, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This illegal establishment flourished during Prohibition, secretly selling alcohol to patrons.
What is a speakeasy?
This secretive racist organization grew to about two million members in the mid-1920s.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This cultural movement, centered in New York City, celebrated Black art, music, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Young women in the 1920s who embraced new fashions, freedoms, and social norms were known by this term.
Who were flappers?
Increased visibility of this musical culture contributed to racial tension in the decade.
What is jazz and blues music?
An infamous American gangster, who ruled Chicago's organized crime. Building a vast empire through bootlegging, racketeering, gambling, prostitution, and bribery.
Who is Al Capone?
This migration saw millions of Black Americans move from the rural South to Northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
This 1921 riot, one of the worst race massacres in U.S. history, targeted the Black, prosperous, Greenwood district.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
This nationwide consumer and entertainment shift included cities overtaking this type of living pattern for the first time.
What is urban (cities overtaking farms)?
The most popular dances of the 1920's.
What are the Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom and the flea hop?
This Amendment was ratified in 1919, which banned the manufacture and sale of “intoxicating liquors”.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This act, passed in 1924, established extremely restrictive immigration quotas favoring Northern Europeans.
What is the National Origins Act of 1924?
This environmental disaster of the 1930s caused massive dust storms across the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This birth-control device increased during the 1920s making it possible for women to have fewer children.
What is a diaphragm?
Two popular Jazz band venues in New York City.
What are the Savoy and the Cotton Club?
A derogatory nickname used by middle-class white Americans for what beer was known as during the Prohibition era.
What is the beer known as “Kaiser brew”?
This “fear” after World War I fueled anti-immigrant sentiment and nativist hysteria.
What is the Red Scare?
The Roaring Twenties followed hardships from these two major early 20th-century events.
What are World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic?
The first commercial radio station in the United States that hit the airwaves in 1920.
What Pittsburgh’s KDKA?
The author whose novels chronicled the hedonism and excitement of the Jazz Age.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This law, enacted alongside the 18th Amendment, enforced Prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act?
The increasing power of Black Americans threatened this oppressive system of racial segregation.
What is Jim Crow?
This New Deal president launched government programs to help Americans recover from the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?