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Women of the 1920s
African American Experience
1920s Technology
Prohibition
1920s Economy
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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 term for buying stocks by borrowing money from a broker, which fueled the 1920s stock market boom...

What was buying on margin?

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

Father of this President sold his holdings just before the stock market crash of 1929...

Who was JFK?

300
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

In the 1920s, there was substantial demand for this cool new kitchen appliance.

What is the refrigerator?

400

The first female governor...Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross was an American educator and politician who served as the 14th governor of which state?

What is Wyoming?

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

While Prohibition ended nationally in 1933, Mississippi did not repeal its state prohibition laws until which year?

When was 1966?

400

The name for when government followed a laissez-faire approach, promoting low taxes, high tariffs, and minimal regulation on business. (named for 20s President)

What is "Coolidge prosperity"?

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
Tensions arose between African Americans and Whites in the summer of 1919 in the city of Chicago, leading to race riots, after an African American boy was struck by rock thrown by White boys while swimming in this Great Lake.
What was Lake Michigan?
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)?
500
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

He was the wealthiest person in America during the 1920s, widely considered the country’s first billionaire. As the founder of Standard Oil, his fortune was valued at over $1 billion ($1.2 billion in 1918), representing roughly 1.5% of the U.S. GDP at the time.

Who was John D. Rockefeller?