The 1920s Vocabulary Study this for your quiz—Name-_____________________
Term
Definition
An arrangement of workers, machines, & equipment in which
1. Assembly line the product passes from operation to operation until
completed on a conveyor belt
People who transported or sold illegal liquor during
2. Bootleggers
Prohibition (1920s)
3. Flapper
Nickname for a young woman in the 1920s who rebelled
against how society thought she should behave and dress
4. Great
Migration
north
Movement of 500,000 African Americans from the South to
the North (looking for better jobs and less discrimination in
the early 20th century)
5. Harlem
Renaissance
A flowering of African American art, poetry, and writing
during the 1920s, centered in Harlem, New York City
6. Jazz Age
7. Mass Media
8. Prohibition
18th
Amendment
9. Roaring 20s
10. Speakeasies
11. Temperance
Movement
12.
21st
Amendment
The period in America when African & European musical
traditions blended creating the unique music known as jazz;
(Famous jazz musicians were: Duke Ellington, Count Basie,
and Louis Armstrong.)
Types of communication that reach lots of people (radio,
newspaper, magazines)
Outlawed alcohol
Phrase describing the drastic changes in the U. S. during the
1920s; changes included social (fashion), economic (big
business), and civic (laws)
Illegal saloons that sprang up across the U. S. after the 18th
Amendment passed 1919 (beginning a 14-year period of
Prohibition)
The campaign to outlaw alcoholic beverages
Repealed Prohibition (overturned the 18th Amendment)
13. nativism
A belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners
14. anarchist
(anarchy)
A person who believes there should be no gov’t
15. Deport
16.
To expel (kick out) a person from a country
Installment Paying small, regular amounts of money for a product (like a
Buying
car or home) over a period of time.
17. Recession
A moderate downturn in the economy (NOT severe)
18. Capitalism
An economic system based on private ownership of property
and free enterprise (what we have in the U.S.)