Roaring 20s

What is the name of the movement which promoted the growth of African-American culture and later influenced the civil rights movement?

• Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

• Back to Africa Movement

• Temperance Movement

Which words are related to the abolition of alcohol during the 1920s?

• Temperance

• Prohibition

• 18th Amendment

• All of the above

During what event did many African Americans leave the south and move to the north in search of economic opportunities in industrialized cities?

• Great Migration

• Dust Bowl

• Rust Belt to Sun Belt Migration

• Social Darwinism

Why was Prohibition seen as a failure?

• Speakeasies were established to replace bars.

• It led to an increase in organized crime.

• Mobsters made it unsafe in the cities.

• All of the above

Flappers during the 1920s -

• confronted discrimination in employment and education

• challenged traditional attitudes and social norms.

• joined the Army and fought in combat

• refused to use their 19th Amendment rights

Can you recall what the 18th amendment is

• Made it illegal to make or sell alcohol

• Gave women the right to vote

• Led to a decrease in crime

• Gave African Americans the right to vote

Which statement is an opinion about the US in the 1920s?

• The US became a more urban society

• Industrial working conditions and wages improved

• Women increased their presence in the workforce

• The 1920s were the wildest times of the 1900s

“Dreams”

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow

-Langston Hughes

This poem written during the Harlem Renaissance, was most likely meant to encourage African Americans to

• Flee from slavery

• Accept racial segregation

• Never give up hope and look to the future

• Deal with the Great Depression

Young women in the 1920s who declared their independence from traditional values were known as __________________________.

• Fads

• Actresses

• Flappers

• Beyonce

Which of the following is the main idea of the cartoon below?

• Alcohol should only be banned because it is expensive

• Alcohol causes Americans to become poor and make bad decisions

• Only Christian Americans should stop drinking alcohol

• Alcohol hurts the economy because Americans do not go to work