Women of the 1920s
Women of the 1920s who pushed the boundaries and broke the traditions previously held by society regarding a woman's role in the social order were known by this term.
What were 'flappers'?
A cultural shift of the 1920s, African Americans began expressing a new attitude through art, music, and other forms of culture, especially in this district of New York City.
What was Harlem?
This technological advancement's widespread use allowed American to continue with work and recreation into the night.
What is the electric light bulb?
During the Scopes Monkey Trial, the biology teacher got arrested for teaching this
What was the theory of evolution
Women had made significant political and social progress in the 1920s when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed them this.
What is the right to vote?
One expression of the new attitude of African Americans in the 1920s blended their cultural experiences from West Africa and the southern United States into this form of music
What was jazz music?
During the 1920s, Americans were able to gain a greater sense of national identity by sharing in the music, news, stories, and jokes they heard on this technological innovation that no one could live without.
What was the radio?
Liquor, during the 1920s, was sold behind closed doors in establishments that went by this name.
What were speakeasies?
Warren G Harding Promised this while running for President?
What was a return to normalcy.
Women replaced men where, while they were serving in World War 1?
What were factories (jobs)
African Americans sought to leave the South in the 1920s in order gain greater financial independence working in industrial jobs in the North than they had achieved working in this agricultural system of labor
What was sharecropping?
Through the 1920s cars, especially the Model T, dropped significantly in price due to this innovation of efficiency, introduced by Henry Ford.
What was the assembly line?
This time was known for an intense fear of communism.
What was the Red Scare.
Calvin Coolidge believed in this type of Government involved in the economy?
What is Laissez Faire or "Hands off"
What were three popular consumer goods that were used by Women of the 20s for the first time.
What were...
As African Americans pursued industrial work in the North, post-World War I, African American populations increased in major northern urban areas by as much as 600% in a movement known by this name
What was the Great Migration?
The growth of cities is known as what
What is urbanization
These were used by Mitchell Palmer to weed out suspected communists and jail them.
What were Palmer Raids.
This Scandal during Harding's Presidency saw the Sec. of the Interior taking bribes to allow oil companies to drill on federally protected land.
What was The Teapot Dome Scandal.
Women purchased consumer goods on this, which is referred to as "Buy now, pay later"
What is credit
This group terrorized African Americans, as well as Immigrants, Jewish and Catholic people, etc. during the Roaring 20's
What is the Ku Klux Klan
The first radio broadcast in the U.S. happened in the 1920s on a factory rooftop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the station KDKA, airing the results of the 1920 Presidential Election. Who won this election?
Who was Warren G Harding
These two Italian immigrants were falsely executed for the murder of two people. They were tried because of their different beliefs.
Who were Sacco and Venzetti
This brought the 1920's to screeching halt in 1929.