Changing Society: Organized Crime
An underground saloon where illegal liquor was sold.
Speakeasy
This is a description of a flapper.
A modern young woman of the 1920 who cut their hair short, smoked, and were independent.
The radio
This is the most famous poet during the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Who was a bootlegger?
A person who would run or provide illegal alcohol.
This was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
Amelia Earhart
This is the term coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald that defined the 1920s
The Jazz Age
This is what the term Harlem Renaissance means
This is the rebirth of African American culture
The banning of the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol.
This is the amendment that granted women's suffrage
19th
This is who John Scopes was and what his trial was about
He was a teacher in Tennessee who was prosecuted for teaching evolution in high school.
This is what the the Harlem Renaissance was
A celebration of African American culture through literature and art
These are two reasons why Prohibition was difficult to enforce.
Alcohol was imported from other countries, there was not enough money budgeted to enforce the law, law officials took bribes, organized crime, and people did not support the law and did not obey it.
This is the definition of the "double-standard" for women in the 1920s
These are stricter social and moral standards for women than men.
This is what fundamentalists believed about religion and alcohol
That the Bible should be taken literally and that alcohol is the root of domestic abuse, crime, poverty...
This is what the Great Migration was and how it contributed to the Harlem Renaissance
A mass movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities and it expanded black culture.
He was the most infamous mobster, he was charged with tax evasion, and he went to Alcatraz prison.
This describes how traditional roles changed for women in the 1920s
Women had more freedom from the home environment, more educational and work opportunities, flappers image increased acceptability
These are four celerities from the 1920s and what they were known for....
Babe Ruth (baseball), Charles Lindbergh (pilot), Amelia Earhart (pilot), Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith (singers), F. Scott Fitzgerald (writer), Duke Ellington (composer)
This was the goal of the writers, poets, musicians, and everyone who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance
To combat racism and racial stereotypes by educating people about black culture