Roaring 20s

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

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.

A “return to normalcy” after World War I meant….

• Increased US involvement in Europe

• No longer selling alcohol in the United States

• Going back to life as it had been before the war

• Limiting immigration

What was one effect of the Harlem Renaissance?

• Prohibition ended for African Americans

• African-American cultural pride flourished in the cities

• The formation of multiracial corporations

• Unemployment

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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

A period of time when people were banned from drinking alcohol became known as

• Great Depression

• World War I

• Prohibition

• Progressive Era

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