Technology and Entertainment
The period after World War I is called the _______ _______ because of the rapid changes that took place in the 1920s.
Roaring Twenties
The _________ ___________, passed in 1920 after the government acknowledged the contributions of women during World War I, removed gender restrictions for voting allowing women to vote.
Nineteenth Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance was the creation and recognition of African American ______, dance, politics, ___________, and art.
music; literature
Thousands of African Americans were murdered between the ___________ period and the 1930s.
Reconstruction
The standard of living _________for people who could afford the new products
improved
Beginning in 1910, many African Americans ______ ______ from the South. They could not find jobs because of discrimination.
moved away
The main goal of the Harlem Renaissance was to encourage _______ in African American culture.
pride
African Americans were often the _____ hired and the _____ fired.
last; first
The American ___________ was booming, and many people benefited.
economy
The ________ and _________ offered more jobs in factories and less discrimination.
Northeast; Midwest
More Catholics and Jewish immigrants came from the southern and eastern parts of Europe and became additional targets of a new __ ____ ____.
Ku Klux Klan
___________, ________, and ______ ________often did not get paid enough to live above poverty.
sharecroppers, farmers, factory workers
Due to the Great Migration, African American influence in music and the arts ________.
increased
The Eighteenth Amendment – known as ___________ because it prohibited alcohol – outlawed making, selling, and transporting alcohol in the United States.
Prohibition
After World War I, factories began to ____ ________ airplanes.
mass produce
One push factor that helped spark the Great Migration was the hardships of __________.
sharecropping
___________ caused _________ ______ – criminal groups structured like corporations – to grow into a giant industry.
Prohibition; organized crime