Save
Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or
show password
Forgot Password?
Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or
Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account. Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.
focusNode
Didn't know it?
click below
 
Knew it?
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
0:00
edit
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how

Roaring 20's

8th

TermDefinition
18th Amendment The law/ amendment added to the constitution that made alcohol illegal in the U.S.
19th Amendment The law/ amendment added to the constitution that gave women the right to vote.
21st Amendment The law/ amendment added to the constitution that ended prohibition (made alcohol legal again in the U.S.).
Bootlegger A person who makes and sells alcohol illegally during prohibition.
Bull Market When the economy is doing well.
Consumer Goods Things made in a factory to be bought by normal people (clothes, toys, furniture, ect).
Credit Borrowing money to buy things with the idea of paying it back later.
Buying on Margin Buying a stock using credit with the hope that the value of the stock will increase enough so that you can sell it for more money than you borrowed to buy it.
Declaration of Sentiments A document created by suffragettes at the Seneca Falls convention that made arguments for why women should be given the right to vote.
Economy How a country is doing in business, employment, and trade.
Economic Boom When a country’s economy is doing well. Usually seen when people are able to buy more consumer goods, land, houses, and new businesses are created.
Flapper A young woman who cut her hair short, wore short skirts, drank, smoked in went out as a protest against the way women were expected to act at the time.
Great Migration The movement of African Americans from the southern countryside to northern cities.
Harlem Renaissance A time of African American cultural growth and expression through music, art, literature, and politics in New York City.
Jazz Music A new type of music that came out of the Harlem Renaissance.
Organized Crime Groups of criminals who came together to make money by selling alcohol illegally.
Prohibition When alcohol was made illegal in the U.S.
Prohibition Agent A police officer who specialized in stopping the illegal sale of alcohol in the U.S. during prohibition.
Rum-Runner A person who illegally sneaks/ smuggled alcohol into the U.S. during prohibition.
Seneca Falls Convention A gathering of women suffragettes who came together to talk about how they were going to get the right to vote.
Silent March The first major civil rights demonstration in the U.S. in which 10,000 African Americans marched in New York City to protest the St. Louis Massacre
Speakeasy A secret illegal bar where alcohol was served during prohibition.
Suffrage The right to vote.
Suffragette A woman who fought for women’s right to vote.
St. Louis Massacre When White Americans in St.Louis attacked, killed, and burned the homes of African Americans started by a rumor that a white man had been killed by an African American man.
Stock A piece of a company that can be bought or sold based on how well the company is doing.
Stock Market Where different stocks can be bought or sold. How the stock market is doing tells how a country’s economy is doing as a whole.
Temperance Refusing to drink alcohol because a person thinks it is morally bad.
Tulsa Massacre A massacre of African Americans in Tulsa Oklahoma that happened after an African American man was wrongly accused of attacking a white woman.
Volstead Act A law that made it illegal to make, transport, or sell alcohol in the U.S.
Woodrow Wilson The U.S. president during the start of the roaring 20’s who signed the 18th and 19th amendments.
Women’s Temperance Movement A group of women who fought to get alcohol banned in the U.S.
Created by: user-1752242
Popular History sets

 

 



Voices

Use these flashcards to help memorize information. Look at the large card and try to recall what is on the other side. Then click the card to flip it. If you knew the answer, click the green Know box. Otherwise, click the red Don't know box.

When you've placed seven or more cards in the Don't know box, click "retry" to try those cards again.

If you've accidentally put the card in the wrong box, just click on the card to take it out of the box.

You can also use your keyboard to move the cards as follows:

If you are logged in to your account, this website will remember which cards you know and don't know so that they are in the same box the next time you log in.

When you need a break, try one of the other activities listed below the flashcards like Matching, Snowman, or Hungry Bug. Although it may feel like you're playing a game, your brain is still making more connections with the information to help you out.

To see how well you know the information, try the Quiz or Test activity.

Pass complete!
"Know" box contains:
Time elapsed:
Retries:
restart all cards