1920s

The 18th Amendment began this period forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages.

• Evolution

• Prohibition

• Alcholism

• Flappers

African American artistic movement during the 1920s centered in New York.

• Arts Renaissance

• Civil Rights Renaissance

• Hoboken Renaissance

• Harlem Renaissance

Court case over the teaching of evolution in schools during the 1920s.

• Scopes

• Red Scare

• Tennessee Evolution

• Smith

The day the stock market crashed in 1929.

• Black Monday

• Black Wednesday

• Black Tuesday

• Black Friday

Name given to women who challenged traditional standards of behavior during the 1920s.

• Fashionistas

• Pearls

• Charlestons

• Flappers

Popular baseball player who lived an excessive lifestyle that embodied the 1920s.

• Babe Ruth

• Lou Gehrig

• Joe Sewell

• Jackie Robinson

Infamous mob boss in Chicago during the age of Prohibition who was arrested for tax fraud.

• Al Capone

• Bugsy Siegal

• Frank Costello

• Lucky Luciano

Name of an illegal and secret bar or saloon that sold alcohol during Prohibition.

• Secret Bar

• Scopes

• Flappers

• Speakeasy

A person who makes, distributes, and sells alcohol illegally.

• Bootlegger

• Jazzer

• Boozer

• Flapper

This was a major innovation found in most homes by the end of the 20s.

• Radio
• Television
• Telephone
• Microwave.