Harlem Renaissance
Artists of the 20s
Prohibition
Inventions
Other Vocab
100

Bessie Smith

Blues Singer

100

Painter who painted scenes of the Southwest and Cities. 

Georgia O'Keeffe

100

This amendment started prohibition. 

18th

100
Washington Machines, stoves, and vacuum cleaners are examples of these. 

Labor Saving Devices

100

This was the period of increased importance of African American artists, writers, and musicans

Harlem Renaissance

200

Painter who painted scenes of the Great Migration

Jacob Lawerence

200

John Steinbeck 

Author

200

This amendment ended prohibition. 

21st

200

Henry Ford used this to make cars cheaply and quickly. 

Assembly Line

200

This term describes the movement of African Americans out of the Jim Crow Souther into Northern industrial cities. 

The Great Migration 

300

Poet who wrote about the hopes and fears of African Americans

Langston Hughes

300

Man who coined the term "The Jazz Age" and wrote The Great Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

300

This was the group that made illegal alcohol. 

Bootleggers

300

This new invention improved communication across the country. 

The Radio

300

This term refers to laws requiring the separation of public spaces based on race. 

Segregation 

400

Duke Ellington 

Piano Player/Jazz Singer

400

Composer of Rhapsody in Blue

George Gershwin

400

This was the name for bars were people went to drink during Prohibition. 

Speakeasies. 

400

The Wright Brothers pioneered this new invention. 

The Airplane

400

This was the period of time in which it was illegal to buy, make or sell alcohol in the United States.

Prohibition

500
Trumpet Player of the Harlem Renaissance

Louis Armstrong

500

Composer who used folk music in his pieces. 

Aaron Copland

500

This was the effect of prohibition on crime rates in America. 

They went up. 

500

Alexander Graham Bell invented this new device. 

The Telephone

500

This term refers to electricity becoming standard in American households. 

Electrification