Overall Perception
The nicknames for the 1920s in the US.
What is the Roaring 20s and the Jazz Age?
A hate group in the 1920s that was created to abuse and harass people of color because of racist beliefs.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The prosperity of the 1920s made it feel like the American Dream was coming true.
What were Americans' feelings about the American Dream?
Radio, jazz music, and Hollywood films.
What is the popular entertainment that flourished during the 1920s?
During the 1920s, more people moved to cities from rural towns to indulge in the pleasures of city life, like shopping and the arts.
What is the increase of city population and decrease of farms?
What the 1920s were for the majority of the population who didn’t enjoy the “roaring” part.
What is a decade of poverty?
In the 1920s, hundreds of foreign-born people were deported without trial and harrassed by bigots.
What is the prejudice and fear of communists?
During the 1920s, more jobs and opportunities became widely available for all people, regardless of where they came from.
What is who could achieve the American Dream?
Corsets changed to straight and shorter skirts as fashion changed.
What is: the clothing women stopped and started wearing during the 1920s.
An illegal establishment that sells alcohol and fueled a criminal outbreak during the 1920s.
What are speakeasies?
Changing gender roles, hairstyles, and clothing styles. Social and political changes, like freedom for women, and advances in science and technology.
What are major changes during the 1920s?
Hate and prejudice towards foreign-born people and immigrants.
What are xenophobia and nativism?
The prosperity and increasing income during the 1920s.
What is what allowed for the American Dream to become a reality?
The vacuum cleaner, electric cooking range, and toaster.
What are inventions that made the lives of housewives easier during the 1920s?
A way that people went into debt during the 1920s.
What is gambling?
People spent more than they made, nativism, the revival of the KKK, overproduction and underconsumption.
What are the bad sides of the 1920s?
Communists, foreign-born Americans, people of color, and Jews.
What are groups of people who faced intolerance in the 1920s because they were viewed to have wrong beliefs?
The growing gap between the rich and the poor.
What is what the American Dream in the 1920s hid?
Inventions that became common in buildings and helped with cleanliness.
What are sewer systems and plumbing?
Boxing, baseball, tennis, and golf.
What are sports that were popular during the 1920s?
Exuberant, freewheeling popular culture that defined the decade, like jazz bands and flappers.
What is how the 1920s got the name the “Roaring 20s?"
A quota system that established the maximum number of people who could enter the US from each foreign country. This Act was used to cut European immigration to the US because intolerant beliefs made many Americans fear immigrants were communists and that they were going to take over the US government.
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
Inventions that affected the American Dream in the 1920s by making life easier, more enjoyable, and transforming the nation.
What are the automobile, electricity, shopping centers, and cooking ranges?
Henry Ford’s invention that created an affordable automobile faster and more efficiently, and also created an explosion of industrial growth in the US during the 1920s.
What is the assembly line?
The act that made the manufacturing, transportation, and sale of alcohol illegal during the 1920s.
What is prohibition?