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1920's Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Electrification-1 | This technological improvement led to labor-saving-products that changed how Americans lived their day to day lives |
Bootleggers-2 | Smugglers who illegally transported or created alcohol to be sold during the Prohibition era |
21st Amendment-3 | Amendment that repealed the 18th Amendment |
Prosperity | A term describing a condition of wealth |
Temperance | A social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages |
Great Migration | Mass movement of southern blacks moving to the North and West |
Mobility | A term meaning on the move |
Prohibition | The period of time when alcohol was illegal |
Red Scare | when society had a fear of Communism |
18th Amendment | Amendment that made alcoholic beverages illegal |
Suffrage | The movement that gave women rights |
Speakeasies | An illegal bar or saloon where alcohol flowed freely |
Harlem Rennaissance | Cultural rebirth in African American communities |
Intolerance | against things that are new |
Immigration Act of 1924 | Legislation that limited the number of immigrants in US |
19th Amendment | Amendment that women the right to vote |