Chapter 7 Lesson 2: “The Roaring Twenties” Study Guide
South Carolina Standards: 5-3.2 and 5-4.1
Vocabulary
1. Prohibition - a complete ban on the sale of alcohol
2. 18th Amendment - amendment to the Constitution passed in
1919 that outlawed the making, selling, transporting of
alcoholic beverages. It is also called the Prohibition
Amendment
3. 21st Amendment- Amendment to the US Constitution adopted
in 1933 that ended Prohibition
4. Jazz- musical form that began in New Orleans, Louisiana and
was influenced by African-American musical traditions.
5. Harlem Renaissance- artistic movement centered in Harlem,
where many African-Americans moved to in NYC.
6. Great Migration - a period of time from 1910-1930 when
African Americans moved North to escape prejudice in the
south and find better opportunities.
Introduction
7. The Great Migration was the movement of African Americans from southern rural to
northern urban areas and was a result of “push” and “pull” factors.
8. Some of the “pushes” included Jim Crow laws, lynchings, the economic hardships of
sharecopping , the negative effects of the boll weevil , and the lack of
economic opportunities.
9. The major “pulls” to the cities of the North and midwest included job opportunities in
factories .
“Prohibition” p. 311
10. Progressive reformers were also concerned about improving society by controlling the
moral behavior of all Americans and helped to pass Blue Laws that
prohibited
the manufacture and sale of alcohol
11. Prohibition became popular with the increase of immigration because native-born
Americans thought
immigrants drank too much.
12. The 18th Amendment outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, but it
was repealed by the
21st Amendment, which ended Prohibition.
13. Why did Prohibition fail?
The law was ignored and led to speakeasies and bootlegging, which increased crime.
“The Jazz Age” p. 312
Radio
14.
and film brought new styles of music to new audiences.
15. Jazz began among AFRICAN AMERICANS in NEW ORLEANS.
jazz music to France during World War I .
When they returned home, it became popular among whites as well as African
Americans .
16. African Americans soldiers took
“The Harlem Renaissance” p. 314
17. The Harlem Renaissance was one result of the Great Migration because African
culture with them to northern urban areas. Gathered together in
Americans took their
cities, this culture flourished.
18. Writers , artists , and musicians celebrated
through their art .
African contributions to America
19. Writers of the Renaissance used their work to call for an end of discrimination and
unfair treatment , of African Americans.
Additional Information
20. There was also racial and ethnic conflict during this time. Although
segregation
North , it was widely practiced. For example, African
Americans were often the last hired and the first fired .
21. Some riots in large cities targeted African Americans , especially following World
War I , when racial and unemployment violence peaked during the Red Scare
of 1919 . Even though African Americans fought in World War I, whites didn’t
was not enforced by law in the
want them to have equal rights.
22. A new
Ku Klux Klan targeted Jewish
and Catholic immigrants.