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1 American life changed during 1920’s
Roaring 20’s American life changed during 1920’s

2 Rise of living standards
More Jobs Better pay

3 Women in the 1920’s

4 Had more time outside of the home because of new labor saving devices
Washing Machine Telephones Stoves Radio Movies

5 Flappers

6 Women who rebelled by dressing and acting differently

7 Georgia O’Keefe

8 Painter of the Southwest

9 Temperance Movement

10 The campaign to outlaw the making and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Led to the 18th Amendment. Strong connection with Women’s Suffrage Movement.

11 Prohibition

12 Law against the making or selling of alcoholic beverages

13 What did the 18th Amendment do?

14 made manufacturing, transporting, and selling alcohol illegal

15 Bootleggers

16 People who transported or sold illegal alcohol during the Prohibition Era
Al Capone

17 Speakeasies

18 Illegal saloons that sprang up across the United States following the passage of the 18th Amendment

19 What is a result of Prohibition?

20 Growth of organized crime
Al Capone

21 21st Amendment

22 Ended Prohibition

23 Harlem Renaissance

24 A flowering of African American art, poetry, and writing during the 1920s, centered in the New York City neighborhood known as Harlem

25 Great Migration

26 Movement of African Americans from the South to the North in search of better jobs and less discrimination

27 Jacob Lawrence

28 Painter of the Great Migration Series

29 Jazz Age

30 The period in American history when African and European musical traditions blended, creating the unique American music known as jazz

31 Wrote about the Jazz Age

32 F. Scott Fitzgerald

33 Musicians and songs of theirs

34 “What a Wonderful World” Bessie Smith “Backwater Blues” Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” Bessie Smith “Backwater Blues” Duke Ellington “Taking the ‘A’ Train” Aaron Copland “Hoedown”

35 Langston Hughes

36 Poet of the 1920’s & 1930’s Langston Hughes “Dream Deferred”

37 John Steinbeck

38 Wrote about migrant workers in California

39 What two Americans built & flew the first airplane?

40 The Wright Brothers


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