1920s

What is the significance of the 19^th Amendment? 

• Women became citizens.
• African Americans became citizens.
• Women were granted the right to vote.
• African Americans were granted the right to vote.

What positive effect did the migration north have on African Americans? 

• Segregation
• Jim Crow Laws
• New job oppurtunities
• New sharecropping opportunities

During the Harlem Renaissance African Americans had the opportunity to celebrate their culture in all of the following ways EXCEPT… 

• Art
• Clothing
• Music
• Writing

Which amendment started Prohibition?

• 18th
• 19th
• 20th
• 21st

Which Amendment brought an end to Prohibition?

• 19th
• 18th
• 21st
• 20th

What is a speakeasy?

• a person who smuggles illegal alcohol
• an illegal bar
• a secret password
• the Chinese form of sign language

Which of following people was a famous 1920s novelist that wrote about the Jazz Age?

• John Steinbeck
• Langston Hughes
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• J. K. Rowling

What was the name of the event where large numbers of Africans Americans left the south for the north and west

• Great Migration
• Great Movement
• The Big Shuffle
• Harlem Renaissance

Define prohibition

• The act of forbidding something such as alcoholic beverages
• When women can't vote
• When African American men can't vote
• When the government chooses who has to go fight in certain wars

Who was Langston Hughes?

• He was a singer
• He was an astronaut
• He was a farmer
• He was a famous African American poet