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inventions
women
prohibition
mass culture
conflicts
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insulin injections
What medical invention helped diabetics / was invented for diabetics?
100
a young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts
What was a flapper?
100
it was a law that banned the manufacture and sale of liquors
What was the 18th amendment to the constitution?
100
they were music styles that African-Americans popularized
What were jazz and blues?
100
from Southern to northern cities, and it made their culture more visible
Where did Africans Americans move to?
200
they were places where people could buy the same consumer goods as everyone
What were 'chain stores'?
200
because they drank, smoked or said 'unladylike' things
Why were flappers different from previous generations?
200
they were bars where alcohol was sold illegally
What were speakeasies?
200
in cities rather than farms
Where did people live?
200
it was the name given to the conflict between city-dwellers and small-town residents, Protestants and Catholics, blacks and whites..
What was called the "cultural civil war"?
300
it was an invention that made people's lives easier in their homes
What was the dishwasher and/or air conditioning and/or vacuum cleaner?
300
in 1920, and it made it possible for women to vote
When was the 19th amendment passed?
300
they were people who controlled speakeasies
Who were the bootleggers or racketeers?
300
more than 12 million households
How many people bought a radio?
300
they were laws that excluded some immigrants (Eastern Europeans and Asians) in favor of others
What were the Quota Laws?
400
it was invented by Fleming and saved millions of lives
What was penicillin?
400
in white-collar jobs (as a stenographers for example)
Where did women work?
400
a law that closed every tavern, bar and saloon in the United States.
What was the Volstead Act?
400
the car, and especially the Ford T model
What became the most important consumer product?
400
because some people in the South saw this organization as a way to return to the 'good old values'
Why did some people joined the KKK?
500
they had to buy ice
How did people keep things cold before refrigerators were invented?
500
they made it possible for women to have fewer children and get a job
Why were birth control devices like the diaphragm invented?
500
because they wanted to have some control over unruly immigrants masses
Why did people from the middle-class/Temperance women want Prohibition ?
500
to meet drivers' needs
Why were service stations and motels built?
500
the 'Red Scare'
Which movement encouraged a nativist / anti-immigrant/ anti-communist hysteria ?