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| What was Prohibition, and how effective was it? |
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banned the making, selling, and transporting of alcoholic beverages.
Results of Prohibition were Speakeasies were created and bootleggers smuggled illegal alcohol and promoted organized crime. |
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| Why did African Americans migrate to northern cities? |
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Great Migration North
scarce jobs and low paying
discrimination and violence
bad employment opportunity's
but they also faced discrimination and violence in the north. |
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| Who were the leaders in art? what was the contribution? |
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| Art-Georgia O'Keeffe, an artist known for urban scenes and later paintings of the southwest. |
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| Who was the leader in literature? What was their contribution? |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald, a novelist who wrote about the Jazz age of the 1920s; John Steinbeck, a novelist who portrayed the strength of poor migrant workers during the 1930s |
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| Who were the leaders in music? what were their contributions |
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| Aaron Copland and George Gershwin, composers who wrote uniquely American music |
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| How did the Harlem Renaissance influence artistic American life? |
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| Art-Jacob Lawrence, painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration north through art. |
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| How did the Harlem Renaissance influence Literature American life |
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| Langston Hughes, a poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots |
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| How did the Harlem Renaissance influence Musical American life? |
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| Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, jazz composers; Bessie Smith, blues singer |
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| How was social and economic life in the early twentieth century different from that of the late 19th century? |
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Definition
Results of improved transportation brought by affordable automobiles
Invention of the airplane
Use of the assembly line
Communication changes
Ways electrification changed American life. |
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| An arrangement of machines workers and equipment in which the product begin assembled passes from operation to operation until completed. |
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| People who transported or sold illegal liquor during the prohibition era of the 1920s |
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| A young woman in the 19200s who rebelled against how society thought she should behave and dress |
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| Movement of African Americans from the south to the north in search of better jobs and less discrimination in the early 20th century |
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| A flowering of African American Art, Poetry, and Writing during the 1920s, centered in the New York City neighborhood known as Harlem. |
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| The period in American History when African and European musical traditions blended, creating the unique American music known as Jazz; famous jazz musicians were Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong. |
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| Types of communication that reached lots of people (examples: radio, newspaper, magazines, and television) |
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| Law against making, selling, or transporting alcohol it applied during 1920-1933 |
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| Phrase used the describe the drastic changes in the United States during the 1920s; major changes included social(fashion), economic (big business), and civic (laws). |
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| illegal saloons that sprang up across the United States following the passage of the 18th Amendment in1919, beginning a 14-year period of Prohibition |
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| The campaign to outlaw the making and consumption of alcoholic beverages. |
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Composer/Conductor
jazz composer, conductor, and performer during the Harlem Renaissance. |
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Composer/trumpeter
composer and trumpet player during the Harlem Renaissance. Widely recognized as a founding father of jazz |
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Jazz/Blues singer
famous jazz and blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance. popular with both whites and African-Americans |
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Author and poet
wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry. known for his colorful portrayals of black life in America |
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Painter
Painted scenes of, his own background in Harlem, the hard life of black Americans in the 1920s |
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painter
Painted scenes of urban landscapes, Southwest |
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Author
Wrote about the lives of wealthy white Americans and Europeans during the Jazz Age |
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Author
Wrote about the strength of migrant workers during the dust bowl of the 1930s. |
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Composer
Wrote uniquely American music (often with western themed titles and sounds) that incorporated jazz and other American musical styles |
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Composer
Wrote uniquely American music for orchestras, Broadway shows, and Hollywood. |
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| How did elctricity change the american home? |
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Definition
| They don't have to do everything by hand (speeded up the process) |
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| Something that's supposed to last a long time. |
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| What does buying on credit mean? what problems might this cause? |
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| buy no pay later. People become in debt |
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| why was there a need for advertising in the 1920s? |
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| There were too many goods and not enough customers |
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| How did advertising change American buying habits? |
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| bought more stuff than needed |
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| How did Henry Ford make the cost of buying a car cheaper? |
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| by using an assembly line to make the cars |
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| How did the automobile change the American Lifestyle? |
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| They could go places farther away |
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| What new industries developed from the automobile |
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| drive-thrus, drive-ins, gas stations, licenses plate. |
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| What is a Flapper? Describe their lifestyle. |
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Party-girl
well educated
terrible manner |
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| Why were sports so popular in the 1920s? |
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| What was important about the fight between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney? |
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| Clash of modern and country |
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| How did the radio change America? |
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| it brought sports to everyone |
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| How did Prohibition lead to organized crime? |
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| People started to sell, make, and move alcohol which led to gangs |
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| What did Charles Lindbergh accomplish? Importance? |
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| He flew across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| name five cities that probably saw their African American populations grow rapidly between 1910 and 1920. |
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| Indianapolis, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Newark, Washington D.C. |
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