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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'?
100
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?
100
This technological advancement's widespread use allowed American to continue with work and recreation into the night.
What is the electric light bulb?
100
Prohibition was passed in the beginning of the 1920s as this amendment (number) of the U.S. Consitution.
What was the 18th Amendment?
100

This Act gave all Native Americans the right to vote in 1924.

What is the Indian Citizenship Act?
200
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?
200
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?
200
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?
200
Liquor, during the 1920s, was sold behind closed doors in establishments that went by this name.
What were speakeasies?
200

She was a famous silent film star know as the 'It Girl'.

Who was Clara Bow?

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Women had made political progress by working in industrial factories during World War I due to most men serving in this role.
What was a soldier?
300
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?
300
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?
300
The battle over Prohibition was more than a moral battle as Americans sought to decrease the cultural influence of this particular group of immigrants in America.
Who were the German Americans?
300

A style of art known for geometric designs and bright colors. 

What is Art Deco?

400
Along with factory jobs, women also earned the right to vote through their hard work on this particular type of family-owned land throughout the Great War.
What were farms?
400
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?
400
This technology of the 1920s was readily visible to visitors of cities, allowing for continued growth of urban areas when there was no longer new territory in which to spread out.
What was the skyscraper?
400

This man is one of the most famous gangsters of organized crime during prohibition.

Who was Al Capone?

400

The president during the 1920s who visited the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Who is Calvin Coolidge?

500
Before passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, women had already gained the right to vote by 1896 in anyone one of these four western states.
What was Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, or Idaho?
500

Hundreds of white citizens from this Oklahoma town invaded the part of town known as Greenwood home to Black citizens and burned it to the ground in the event known as this. 

What was the Tulsa Massacre?

500
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 this national event.
What was the (1920) Presidential election (returns)?
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This German American industrialist (sometimes called the "Emperor of Beer") gained great support in the fight against Prohibition by influencing members of Congress and even U.S. Presidents to protect the brewery industry.
Who was Adolphus Busch?
500

Sacco and Vansetti were accused of being Communist during the ongoing fear of the spread of communism in the United States known as this.

What is the Red Scare?