A | B |
The Great Migration | African Americans moving from the rural South to the urban North |
Klu Klux Klan | group who used acts of violence including lynching against African Americans |
aviation | meaning flight, as in airplanes |
Prohibition | time period where buying and selling alchohol is illegal |
bathtub gin | homemade alchohol |
speakeasy | an illegal bar or club where one could drink alchohol |
18th Amendment | law that made buying, selling, and making alchohol illegal |
Temperance Movement | group of people who wanted alchohol illegal in the U.S. |
organized crime | grew strong during Prohibition |
flappers | women who were fashionable and modern |
electrification | making everyone have access to electricity |
Wright Brothers | invented motorized airplane |
Guglielmo Marconi | invented the radio |
David Sarnoff | started the broadcast industry |
jobs created by improvement in transportation | road construction, steel, oil, automobile |
entertainment | moving pictures industry, radio industry |
John Steinbeck | writer of the "Grapes of Wrath" |
George Gershwin | composer of broadway music |
19th Amendment | allowed women the right to vote |
labor saving products | washing machine, electric stove |
Harlem Rennaissance | growth of African American culture in New York |
Georgia O'Keefe | painter of urban scenes and the Southwest |
Louis Armstrong | famous African American trumpet player |
Bessie Smith | famous African American blues singer |
Duke Ellington | Jazz pianist |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | novelist who wrote about the 1920s |
Aaron Copeland | classical musician who used jazz in his music |
Charles Lindberg | flew an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean alone |
road construction, oil, steel production | industries that benefited from the automobile industry |