Social Changes of the 1920s

Enhanced participation in the political process

divided the nation along secularist/fundamentalist lines

increased competition for housing and jobs

Harlem Renaissance

Women's Suffrage

Prohibition

The Red Scare

The Great Migration

The Sunbelt migration

New immigration

Explosion/celebration of African American culture

Expressed a strong fear of communism

Works that exposed the racial intolerance of northern urban areas.

Often referred to as the Lost Generation in literature

Gave pride to people of African heritage.

Celebration of Native American traditional culture

Pride in the US' victory in World War I

increased awareness to the struggles of intolerance and life in large urban centers

A ban on alcohol

to make a woman suffer

the right to vote

19th

20th

21st

25th

When immigration was cut off from Europe

When women were not allowed to vote

When alcohol was banned in the US

16th

17th

18th

19th

Increase

Decrease

True

False

True

False

Liquor that is made from using old boots.

Illegal alcohol

Alcohol made in France

To approve something

To disown someone

to remove something

True

False

an unintelligent woman

An empty bottle of wine

A silly man

fancy clothes

someone who is the coolest

A sneaky person

Let's get out of here

Let's go clothes shopping

Let's get dressed up to go out

You're homeless and jobless

You're super boring

That you live a wealthy, extravagant lifestyle

Prohibition

Great Migration

Women's Suffrage

Harlem Renaissance

18th

19th

20th

21st

Women were not allowed to drink alcohol.

Women lost rights in their home life

Women received more education, worked outside of the home and challenged some traditional gender roles

18th

19th

20th

21st

It led to an increase in organized crime.

It was easily enforced

All Americans followed the law and gave up alcohol

It led to a loss of income for the US government

19th

20th

21st

22nd