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Unit 4: The 1920s Vocabulary
Term
Assembly
line
Bootleggers
Flapper
Great
Migration
north
Harlem
Renaissance
“Jazz Age”
Definition
An arrangement of workers, machines,
and equipment in which the product
being assembled passes from operation
to operation until completed
People who transported or sold illegal
liquor during the Prohibition era of the
1920s
A young woman in the 1920s who
rebelled against how society thought
she should behave and dress
Movement of African Americans from
the South to the North in search of
better jobs and less discrimination in
the early 20th century
A flowering of African American art,
poetry, and writing during the 1920s,
centered in the New York City
neighborhood known as Harlem
The period in American history when
African and European musical
traditions blended, creating the unique
American music known as jazz; famous
Mass Media
Prohibition
“Roaring
20s”
Speakeasies
Temperance
Movement
jazz musicians were Duke Ellington,
Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong
Types of communication that reach lots
of people (radio, newspaper,
magazines)
Law against the making or selling
alcohol or alcoholic beverages. The
term also applies to the period of
history between 1920 and 1933 when
the making and selling of alcoholic
beverages was forbidden by the 18th
Amendment
Phrase used to describe the drastic
changes in the United States during the
1920s; major changes included social
(fashion), economic (big business), and
civic (laws)
Illegal saloons that sprang up across the
United States following the passage of
the 18th Amendment in 1919, beginning
a 14-year period of Prohibition
The campaign to outlaw the making and
consumption of alcoholic beverages