A | B |
SPEAKEASIES | Illegal drinking places during Prohibition |
BOOTLEGGERS | Alcohol smugglers |
GREAT MIGRATION | Movement of African Americans to Northern & Eastern cities for jobs |
 | Painted urban scenes, southwest, flowers |
 | Wrote novels about the Jazz Age of the 1920s |
 | Wrote novels about poor migrant workers |
AARON COPLAND & GEORGE GERSHWIN | Composed uniquely American music |
HARLEM RENAISSANCE | Revival of African American art and culture in 1930s New York |
 | Painted scenes from the Great Migration north |
 | Poetry combines American and African American cultural roots |
 | Invented the airplane |
 | His assembly lines made cars affordable |
 | Invented the telephone |
 | Powered washing machines, stoves, lighting, radios, changing the way Americans lived |
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION | Over-speculation, high tarriffs, failure of Federal Reserve to act |
THE NEW DEAL | FDR's plan to end the depression |
 | Proposed the New Deal to pull the economy out of the Depression |
FEATURES OF THE NEW DEAL | Social Security, federal work programs, farm assistance, increased labor rights |
 | Repealed by the 21st Amendment |
 | Blues singer of the Harlem Renaissance |
 | Jazz musician, band leader and composer from the Harlem Renaissance |