Social Changes of the 1920s

Multiple Choice

What was the effect of the Great Migration?

• The Red Scare developed

• Nativism became a popular belief

• Race riots erupted in Northern cities

Multiple Choice

What social change was caused by the Great Migration?

• Enhanced participation in the political process

• divided the nation along secularist/fundamentalist lines

• increased competition for housing and jobs

Social Changes of the 1920s

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Multiple Choice

Movement where poets and Jazz artists addressed social concerns.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Women's Suffrage

• Prohibition

Multiple Choice

What population shift occurred that led to the Harlem Renaissance?

• The Red Scare

• The Great Migration

• The Sunbelt migration

• New immigration

Multiple Select

Select all that reflect the Harlem Renaissance.

• Explosion/celebration of African American culture

• Expressed a strong fear of communism

• Works that exposed the racial intolerance of northern urban areas.

• Often referred to as the Lost Generation in literature

Multiple Select

Choose 2 of the themes that were part of the Harlem Renaissance:

• Gave pride to people of African heritage.

• Celebration of Native American traditional culture

• Pride in the US' victory in World War I

• increased awareness to the struggles of intolerance and life in large urban centers

Women of the 1920s

The New Woman

Multiple Choice

What does the term SUFFRAGE mean?

• A ban on alcohol

• to make a woman suffer

• the right to vote

Multiple Choice

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 19th

• 20th

• 21st

• 25th

Open Ended

How has fashion changed for women from the late 1800s to the 1920s?

Flappers

Young, modern women, that resisted the traditional roles of women

Open Ended

What is 1 word you would use to describe the flappers of the 1920s?

Prohibition

"The Noble Experiment"

Multiple Choice

What does the term Prohibition Era describe?

• When immigration was cut off from Europe

• When women were not allowed to vote

• When alcohol was banned in the US

Multiple Choice

What Amendment banned the making, selling, and transportation of alcohol?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Multiple Choice

Did crime rates increase or decrease during Prohibition?

• Increase

• Decrease

Multiple Choice

True or false: Prohibition hurt the US financially?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: It was never actually illegal to drink alcohol during Prohibtion

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What do you think Bootleg Liquor means?

• Liquor that is made from using old boots.

• Illegal alcohol

• Alcohol made in France

Multiple Choice

What do you think the term repeal means?

• To approve something

• To disown someone

• to remove something

Multiple Choice

True or False the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment

• True

• False

Organized Crime

Gangs made a lot of money selling, transporting and manufacturing illegal alcohol

Average citizens became criminals

Speakeasies and moonshine makers

Illegal bars that operated during Prohibition

​Speakeasies

Government couldn't enforce it

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21st Amendment

repealed (reversed/got rid of) the 18th Amendment

Poll

Thoughts on Prohibition:

• It was a great thing that they should have kept in effect

• It really was an awful idea that caused worse problems than it ways trying to solve

• I can't believe this was a thing.

• It reminds of the debate over the legalization of marijuana

Greater Prosperity

--The Roaring Twenties

--Times were fun...but how long will it last?

Multiple Choice

What does a "Dumb Dora" mean?

• an unintelligent woman

• An empty bottle of wine

• A silly man

Multiple Choice

What does the "Cat's Pajamas'" mean?

• fancy clothes

• someone who is the coolest

• A sneaky person

Multiple Choice

If someone said "let's blouse to you" what would he/she mean?

• Let's get out of here

• Let's go clothes shopping

• Let's get dressed up to go out

Multiple Choice

If someone called you an "egg" what would he/she mean?

• You're homeless and jobless

• You're super boring

• That you live a wealthy, extravagant lifestyle

Multiple Choice

What movement led to the democratic participation of group increasing?

• Prohibition

• Great Migration

• Women's Suffrage

• Harlem Renaissance

Multiple Choice

What Amendment gave women the right to vote

• 18th

• 19th

• 20th

• 21st

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of the "New Woman" of the 1920s?

• Women were not allowed to drink alcohol.

• Women lost rights in their home life

• Women received more education, worked outside of the home and challenged some traditional gender roles

Multiple Choice

What Amendment was the Prohibition Amendment that banned the making and selling of alcohol.

• 18th

• 19th

• 20th

• 21st

Multiple Select

Choose two of the impacts of the 18th Amendment

• It led to an increase in organized crime.

• It was easily enforced

• All Americans followed the law and gave up alcohol

• It led to a loss of income for the US government

Multiple Choice

What Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment?

• 19th

• 20th

• 21st

• 22nd