Women of the 1920s
This new type of young woman challenged traditional rules by wearing shorter skirts, cutting their hair short, and enjoying jazz music.
What is a flapper?
A district of New York City that was the hub for creativity, especially for Black Americans, in the 1920s.
What was Harlem?
This invention allowed people to stay up late and go out after dark to places like night clubs.
What is the electric light bulb?
This Act gave all Native Americans the right to vote in 1924.
This constitutional amendment, passed in 1920, gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
A form of music that got it start and became popular in 1920s Harlem.
What was jazz music? (or swing or blues)
This household invention made cleaning floors faster and easier for families in the 1920s.
What was the vacuum cleaner?
Who was Babe Ruth?
This new social activity in the 1920s allowed women and men to go out together without parents or chaperones.
What is dating?
Racist laws that upheld segregation and poor treatment of African Americans were known as:
What were Jim Crow laws?
This new form of communication brought music, news, and sports directly into people’s homes.
What was the radio?
Who were bootleggers?
A style of art known for geometric designs and bright colors.
What is Art Deco?
This famous aviator became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.
Who was Amelia Earhart?
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Nella Larson all are known as great ______ of the Harlem Renaissance.
What were writers?
This new type of tall building became possible in the 1920s because of steel frames and elevators, changing city skylines.
What was the skyscraper?
This man is one of the most famous gangsters of organized crime during prohibition.
Who was Al Capone?
The president during the 1920s who visited the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
She was a famous silent film star know as the 'It Girl'.
Who is Clara Bow?
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?
Henry Ford improved this invention by using the assembly line, making it cheaper for many Americans.
What was the car (automobile)?
This amendment repealed prohibition in 1933. (Give number)
What was the 21st?
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?