Roaring 20s Test thing

Consumerism

The idea that the consumption of goods is beneficial to society or its economy.

Leisure

Freedom from work or other duties or responsibilities that require time and effort; free time.

Temperance Movement

A movement to limit drinking in the United States.

18th Amendment

The prohibition of alcohol in the United States.

Prohibition

A legal ban on the production, transport, sale, or possession of alcohol beverages.

Volstead Act

An act of Congress passed in 1919 and repealed in 1933, enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages.

Organized Crime

A continuing criminal enterprise that rationally works to profit from illicit activities that are often in great public demand.

Bootlegger

To smuggle or otherwise participate in unauthorized or illegal sale of.

Speakeasy

A bar or nightclub where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally, as during Prohibition in the United States.

Women’s Suffrage

The movement where women fought for their right to vote.

19th Amendment

Granted women the right to vote.

Flapper

In the 1920’s, a young woman who acted and dressed in a daring way.

Harlem Renaissance

An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Great Migration

Approximately 6 million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910’s until the 1970’s.

Tulsa Riots/Massacre

A two-day long massacre that took place between May 31-June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents destroyed the African American community within Tulsa.

Economic Boom

A time where there are increases in productivity, sales and wages accompanied by a rising demand for consumer products leading to massive profits for businesses and corporations.

Inequality

The state of being unequal

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South

Down

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