Roaring 20s

The Harlem Renaissance was a movement of African American artists who

• Worked in the South

• Calling for segregation

• Urged African Americans to leave the country

• Exploring their heritage and encouraging African Americans to be prideful of black culture.

“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

Henry Ford produced a more affordable car primarily because his company….

• Paid workers lower wages than his competitors.

• Used foreign-made parts.

• Developed a faster and less expensive method of production called the assembly line.

• Offered a variety of options to buyers

During the 1920s, controversies concerning national Prohibition and the behavior of “flappers” were all signs of disagreement over…

• The return to normalcy

• Changing culture and lifestyles

• Causes of the Great Depression

• The benefits of new technology

The Great Migration of African Americans to the North during the 1920s was mainly the result of…

• Political corruption

• Nativism

• Racism and discrimination of African Americans in the South

• Success of military desegregation

The __________________________ ended prohibition and was passed in 1933.

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

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

• Fads

• Actresses

• Flappers

• Beyonce

Smugglers who brought alcohol into the United States when it was illegal were called?

• Flappers

• Bootleggers

• Anarchists

• Communists

Nativists believed that native-born Americans

• Should not drink alcohol

• Are superior to immigrants and foreigners

• Should have better working conditions

• Are a lost generation

Nativism influenced the outcome of which 1920s court case?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Sacco and Vanzetti

• Plessy v. Ferguson