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1920's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence; other targets: Catholics, Jews, immigrants and others thought to be un-American | Ku Klux Klan |
| United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production | Henry Ford |
| A movement that pushed that the teachings of Darwin were destroying faith in God and the Bible. It consisted of the old-time religionists who didn't want to conform to modern science. | Fundamentalism |
| movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 | Great Migration |
| Amendment 18 prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages | Prohibition |
| bars that operated illegally during the time of Prohibition | Speakeasies |
| women in the 1920's who bobbed their hair, wore short skirts, and defied the morals and restrictions of the earlier generations | Flapper |
| a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | Harlem Renaissance |
| Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages 1919 | 18th Amendment 1919 |
| gave women the right to vote 1920 | 19th Amendment 1920 |
| 1933; prohibition repealed officially | 21st Amendment 1933 |
| October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed. Lead to the Panic of 1929 | Black Tuesday |
| a period of general fear of communists | Red Scare |
| someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Bootlegger |
| prejudice against Jews | Anti-Semitism |
| Famous trumpet player during the Jazz Age | Louis Armstrong |
| American hero who was the first to fly solo from New York to Paris | Charles Lindberg |
| 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 | W.E.B. Dubois |
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