Roaring 20's
How does the 18th Amendment affect today's society?
18th Amendment has little/no effect to today's society since it has been repealed.
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th amendment
The 18th amendment outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, but was repealed by what amendment?
21st amendment
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A novelist of the jazz age & the lives of the rich
Langston Hughes
African American poet who wrote about the lives of working class African Americans
Importance of the Great Migration?
African Americans had the opportunity to build a new place for themselves in a public life.
Who did jazz begin among?
African Americans in New Orleans
Why was the Harlem Renaissance a result of the Great Migration?
African Americans took their culture with them to northern urban areas; gathered together in cites, this culture flourished.
How did the 18th Amendment affect people in the 1920's?
After the amendment was enforced, bootlegging & illegal distillation & illegal sale of alcoholic beverages became widespread. The popularity of alcohol made people go against the law.
How did the Great Migration affect people in the 1920's?
Allowed African Americans to move North and Midwest to find more job opportuinites and higher salaries. (showed a shift from agricultural based economy to an industrial based economy)
How does the 21st amendment affect today's society?
Allows todays production and sales of alcohol. The United States is able to gain economic revenue because of this amendment.
Al Capone
American gangster who led a Prohibition era crime
Charles Lindbergh
American pilot who made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Speakeasies
An illegal bar where drinks were sold, during the time of prohibition. It was called a Speakeasy because people literally had to speak easy so they were not caught drinking alcohol by the police.
Writers, artists, and musicians celebrated African contributions to America through their ____.
Art
Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist known for painting urban scenes, vivid flowers, and landscapes
Importance of Bootleggers?
As a result of the 18th amendment becoming a law, bootlegging became a big business in the era
How did bootleggers affect people during the 1920's?
Bootleggers smuggled illegal alcohol. This activity was revolved around crime.
How does bootleggers affect today's society?
Bootlegging still takes place today resulting in organized crime.
Who was a Republican President during the 1920's?
Calvin Coolidge
George Gershwin
Composer who mixed jazz and classical music
Importance of 21st amendment?
Confirmation that the National Prohibition had failed (ended 13 years of Prohibition)
In what town did John Scopes teach evolution in order to gain publicity?
Dayton, Tennessee
How did the Great Migration affect today's society?
Distribution of African Americans across the nation
Babe Ruth
He was a famous baseball player who played for the New York Yankees; he set numerous world records (home-runs)
Importance of Prohibition?
In 1920, the American government banned the sale and supply of alcohol as they thought it would rid crime/violence.
What did African American soldiers take to France during WW1?
Jazz music; when they returned home, it became. popular among whites as well as African Americans.
What were some "push" factors of the Great Migration?
Jim Crow Laws, lynchings, the economic hardships of sharecropping, the negative effects of the boll weevil (boys mascot to UAM), and the lack of opportunities
What "pull" factors caused African Americans to travel North and Midwest?
Job opportunities in factories in the bigger cities
Why was John Scopes fined? What was the name of the trial?
John Scopes was charges on May 5, 1925 with violating the Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. He was found guilty and fined $100. Trial nicknamed "Scopes Monkey Trial" because he was used as a form of entertainment and publicity for the town of Dayton.
A new _________ targeted Jewish and Catholic immigrants.
KKK
White, Protestant, men would have been eligible for membership in the ______.
KKK
Prohibition
Nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Why did Prohibition become popular with the increase of immigration?
Native-born Americans thought immigrants drank too much.
The Great Migration was a movement of African Americans from southern rural to _____________ areas and was a result of "push" and "pull" factors.
North urban suburbs
John Steinbeck
Novelist who wrote about strength, courage, and the suffrage of migrant workers.
importance of the 18th Amendment?
Only amendment to be repealed from the Constitution
Progressive reformers were also concerned about improving society by controlling the moral behavior of all Americans and helped to pass Blue Laws that ___________________.
Prohibited the making and selling of alcohol
18th Amendment
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages in the United States
The 1920's was a decade characteristic of 4 things
Prohibition New freedom for women Fear of communism Economic prosperity
How did Prohibition affect people in the 1920's?
Prohibition led to the growth of crime, bribed police officers. It enabled gangsters to conduct illegal operations
What 2 things brought new styles of music to new audiences?
Radio & film
3 common household products by the end of the 1920's?
Radios, telephones, washing machines
21st Amendment
Repealed the 18th amendment (prohibition)
______ in large cities targeted African Americans, especially following WW1, when racial and unemployment violence peaked during the Red Scarce of 1919. Even though African Americans fought in WW1, whites didn't want them to have equal rights.
Riots
What was not enforced by the law in the North but widely practiced? For example, African Americans were often the last hired and the first fired.
Segregation
Bootleggers
Smugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era
How did speakeasies affect people in the 1920's?
Some people went to speakeasies as a form of protest; this resulted in overcrowded jails & the opposite of what officials thought would happen when Prohibition started.
A scandal involving Albert Fall taking bribes for leasing government lands to oil companies?
Teapot Dome
How does Prohibition affect today's society?
The Black Market) crimes still take place except bigger than alcohol..guns & drugs
Why did Prohibition fail?
The law was ignored & led to speakeasies and bootlegging which increased crime.
Great Migration
The movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.
How did the 21st amendment affect people in the 1920's?
The repeal generated positive effects; gave adults the personal freedom to drink again and weakened organized crime.
Where did African Americans head to during the Great Migration to escape poverty, violence, and discrimination in the south?
They headed North and Midwest for better employment opportunities.
Why were speakeasies important during the 1920's?
They were illegal drinking dens, saloons, or nightclubs where people whispered code words to enter.
How does speakeasies affect today's society?
Today, there are still "clubs" known for participating in illegal activities.
Louis Armstrong
Trumpet player who influenced the development of jazz
Writers of the Renaissance used their work to call for an end of discrimination and ____________ _______________ of African Americans.
Unfair treatment
Automobiles changed society by allowing people to be more _________.
mobile
