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- 18th amendment
- 1917 -prohibited selling and drinking alcoholic beverages in US
- 1903
- When the Wright Brothers flew the 1st successful airplane flight
- flappers
- young women with short hair and skirts above the knee
- 1st radio broadcast
- 1920 on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh reporting the Harding election
- Amelia Earhart
- female aviator - never found after ill-fated flight
- movies by 1927
- talkies
- Kitty Hawk, NC
- Where the Wright Brothers flew the 1st successful ariplane flight
- aviator
- person who flies an airplane
- Ford's assembly line
- more people bought cars because of this
- Bessy Holman
- 1st African American female pilot
- 19th amendment
- passed for women to have the right to vote
- 2 million
- number of homes that owned a radio by 1925
- During the 1920's women's lives changed how
- winning the right to vote, able to attend college, worked outside the home, drive cars
- reaissance
- a time when there is new interest in art, literature, and music and learning
- movies in the early 1920's
- silent movies
- from 1920 to 1929
- the number of cars on the road more than doubled
- Harlem Renaissance
- creation of art, literature and music by African Americans living in Harlem
- Charles Limburgh
- 1927-1st solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean
- by 1920
- more people lived in urban areas than rural
- 35% of homes had electricity
- 1920
- broadcast
- program sent over a radio or television station
- Langston Hughes
- African American poet famous during the 1929's
- Louie Armstrong
- singer and trumpeter who helped make jazz popular
- improvisation
- when musicians decide what notes to play as they perform
- 3 problems of the 1920's
- Discrimination, illegal activities and violence due to prohibition, farmers struggled
- prohibition
- act of forbidding something
- roaring 20's
- life was roaring forward like a roaring car during this time
- What families listened to on the radio
- sports broadcasts, news, mysteries, dramas and comedies
- Wright Brothers
- person(s) who flew the 1st successful airplane flight
- farmers struggled after WWI because
- less demand for crops by the Allies, many had to sell their farms
- Ku Klux Klan
- group that spread hatred and prejudice against African Americans
- jazz age
- name for the music of the 1920's
- jazz
- music that with improvisation, began with African Americans in the south
- 21st amendment
- repealed 18th amendment, ended prohibition
- 70% of homes had electricity
- 1930
- Harlem
- a New York neighborhood famous for jazz, art and literature
- electricity made people's lives easier by
- making chores easier (appliances) and giving people more free time