The Roaring 20s

African American cultural movement of the 20s and 30s

• Harlem Renaissance
• Consumer Revolution
• Great Migration
• Prohibition Era

Exodus of African Americans from the South to the North & West

• Consumer Revolution
• Harlem Renaissance
• Great Migration
• Bootlegging

African American poet and activist; innovator of jazz poetry

• Al Capone
• Langston Hughes
• Louis Armstrong
• Henry Ford

African American jazz musician; helped popularize black music

• Billie Holiday
• Langston Hughes
• Louis Armstrong
• Henry Ford

New production & installment buying led to mass purchase of goods

• Bootlegging
• Great Migration
• Entertainment of the 1920s
• Consumer Revolution

More leisure time led to radio, baseball, mah-jong, movies, etc.

• Harlem Renaissance
• Entertainment of the 1920s
• Prohibition
• Consumer Revolution

Passed in 1920 this Constitutionally protected women’s right to vote

• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 21st Amendment
• Equal Rights Amendment

A stylish woman intent on enjoying herself and bucking convention

• Flapper
• Margaret Sanger
• Speakeasy
• Feminist

Birth control activist who fought for women’s equality

• Flapper
• Margaret Sanger
• Alice Paul
• Billie Holiday

Business magnate who developed modern mass production

• Andrew Carnegie
• Louis Armstrong
• Langston Hughes
• Henry Ford