The Roaring Twenties

What was Prohibition?

• the 18th amendment outlawing the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the US between 1920 to 1933.

• the law limiting the types of jobs Black people could take in the 1920s.

• the political movement int he 1920s that prohibited women from voting.

• The law prohibiting U.S presidents from serving more than two terms in office.

What famous black poet invented Jazz Poetry, during the Harlem Rennaissance?

• Marcus Garvey

• W.E.b. Du Bois

• Babe Ruth

• Langston Hughes

What group is shown in this photo?

• Suffragettes

• Speakeasy girls

• Flappers

• The Women's League of America

What was new and different about the women in this photo?

• They rejected traditional ideas of what was acceptable behavior for women.

• They smoked cigarettes, went dancing at night clubs, drank alcohol and wore short skirts.

• They cut their hair short (bobs) and listened to Jazz music

• They worked jobs outside the home that were not previously available to women.

• All of the above

Which Black man of the 1920s started a movement that included encouraging Black people to move to the country of Liberia in West Africa?

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

• Marcus Garvey

• Babe Ruth

What is being represented in this political cartoon?

• The Irish Exclusion act

• Nationalism

• Immigration Quotas

• Universal Suffrage

What was the Red Scare in the U.S. in the 1920s ?

• Rising fears of communism

• the work of Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• American pride following WWI

• Overcrowding and poverty in cities where Irish Immigrants lived

Which was NOT part of the Harlem Reaissance?

• Music

• Novels and short stories

• Black American Shared experience and culture

• The Liberian independence movement

What did the 19th Amendment do?

• Made the sale of alcohol illegal

• Gave women the right to vote

• Made the 2 party system the primary political system in the US

• Legalized Asian immigration to the US, overturning the Chinese Exclusion Act

Who wrote the Harlem Renaissance novel, " Their Eyes Were Watching God?"

• Langston Hughes

• Claude McKay

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Palmer Hayden