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Speakeasies | Secret, illegal clubs that served alcohol during prohibition |
Prohibition | The banning of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol |
Great Migration | Mass migration of some 500,000 African Americans to mid-western and northern US cities during and after WWI |
Harlem Renaissance | Period of great African artistic achievement in the 1920s; named after the Harlem neighborhood in NY City |
19th Amendment | Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote |
Red Scare | A wave of anticommunist fear that swept the US after WWI |
18th Amendment | Constitutional amendment that outlawed the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the US |
Jazz Age | A term for the 1920s; so called because of jazz music's popularity during the decade |
Talkies | Movies with sound or dialogue |
Flappers | Young women in the 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior |