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Urban Life/Automobile
Consumer Culture/Industry
Prohibition
Women & Pop Culture
The Harlem Renaissance
100
The largest city in the United States according to the 1920 census
What is New York?
100
Two new inventions/technologies in the 1920s
What is washing machines, electric toasters, electric stove, electric iron, automobile, radio, mouthwash, sewing machine
100
Define Prohibition
What is time period where producing, transporting, and selling alcohol was illegal
100
The first Presidential election women could vote in
What is 1920
100
New York City neighborhood where approximately 90,000 African Americans settled after WWI
What is Harlem
200
The second largest city in the 1920s census
What is Chicago
200
How Americans afforded all of the new consumer goods in the 1920s
What is installment plan (dollar down and a dollar forever; credit)
200
Amendment that created prohibition
What is 18th Amendment
200
Name for young women who challenged traditional roles of women
What is flappers
200
Describe the Harlem Renaissance
What is cultural revival that celebrated being black in America; black authors, poets, artists, musicians, etc.
300
Describe life in cities
What is fast paced, more opportunities for entertainment, crowded, drinking, gambling, casual dating
300
How much the average American's annual income rose by
What is 35%
300
"Judas Hole" where you could drink some illegal "hooch"
What is speakeasy
300
Two characteristics of the "new woman" of the 1920s are
What is short hair, short skirts, rolled stockings, bare arms, make up, casual dating, smoking, drinking
300
"Poet Laureate" of Harlem
What is Langston Hughes
400
Two effects of the automobile
What is greater freedom for women, building of highways (Route 66), building of carports, driveways, garages, gas stations & repair shops
400
Who said "The Business of America is Business"
What is Calvin Coolidge
400
Famous Chicago gangster who dealt in bootleg liquor, gambling, and prostitution
What is Al Capone
400
A major way that people got news, were entertained, and heard about new products
What is the radio
400
Reason African Americans moved from the South to the North
What is more economic opportunity, less discrimination
500
Term that refers to the spreading out of cities because of the automobile
What is Urban Sprawl
500
Describe the government's position towards business in the 1920s
What is deregulation, "hands off", etc.
500
Famous murder of Al Capone's gang of members of Bugs Moran's gang in Chicago
What is St. Valentine's Day Massacre
500
1920s music that is considered the first truly American form of music
What is jazz
500
Term for the movement of 1.5 million African Americans from the South to Northern cities
What is the Great Migration