roaring 20’s

Roaring 20’s

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Bootleggers

People who transported or sold illegal alcohol during the Prohibition Era

Speakeasies

Illegal saloons that sprang up across the United States following the passage of the

18th Amendment

Harlem Renaissance

A flowering of African American art, poetry, and writing during the 1920s,

centered in the New York City neighborhood known as Harlem

Jazz Age

The period in American history when African and European musical traditions blended, creating the unique American

music known as jazz

Prohibition

Law against the making or selling of alcoholic beverages

Great Migration

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North in search of better jobs

and less discrimination

Temperance Movement

The campaign to outlaw the making and consumption of alcoholic beverages

Roaring 20’s

• Rise of living standards• More Jobs• Better pay

American life changed during 1920’s

Roaring 20’s

• Telephones• Labor saving products• Radio• Movies

Stove

Radio

What two Americans built & flew the first airplane?

The Wright Brothers

What did the 18th Amendment do?

made manufacturing, transporting, and selling alcohol illegal

Women in the 1920’s

• Had more time outside of the home because of new inventions– Washing Machine– Stoves

19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

Flappers

Women who rebelled by dressing and acting differently

African Americans and the Great Migration

• Moved North for better paying jobs• Less discrimination• Better education

Jacob Lawrence

Painter of the Great Migration Series

Georgia O’Keefe

Painter of the Southwest

21st Amendment

Ended Prohibition

Langston Hughes

Poet of the 1920’s & 1930’s

John Steinbeck

Wrote about migrant workers in California

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wrote about the Jazz Age

People of the Harlem Renaissance

• Louis Armstrong• Bessie Smith• Langston Hughes• Duke Ellington

What is a result of Prohibition?

Growth of organized crime

• Al Capone

Review the important people of the 1920’s

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