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Title: Cultural Change of the 1920s
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Cultural Change of the 1920s
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Prohibition
- 18th Amendment
- Volstead Act
- Leads to illegal alcohol sales
- Speakeasies
- Gangsters and bootleggers
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Nativism
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Immigration Quotas
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The KKK
- Targeted and terrorized the un-American
- Gained strong political influence during the 1920s
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The Flapper
- Short skirts
- Bobbed hair
- Listened to jazz music (unconventional)
- Disdain for the socially acceptable
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The Harlem Renaissance
Duke Ellington
Alain Locke
Paul Robeson
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Marcus Garvey
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- What Do You Think?
- What, to you, is the biggest cultural change
brought on by the Roaring Twenties?
