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Roaring 20s

TermDefinition
18th Amendment Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
19th Amendment Gave women the right to vote (suffrage)
Bootlegger Smugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era
Buying on Credit people would purchase things and make partial payments on set intervals: installment plans, led to a lot of debt
Consumerism Americans were fascinated with new consumer products in the 1920s and began overspending and borrowing on credit. Would later lead to causes of the Great Depression
fad something that is very popular for a short time, then forgotten
Flapper carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. The flapper symbolized the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s. Image reinforced the idea that women now had more freedom.
Harlem Renaissance A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Prohibition the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
Speakeasy Illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition
Temperance Movement A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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