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What was the most famous car of the 20's?
Model T
Most influential musician in the history of Jazz
Louis Armstrong
Illegal underground taverns/saloons
Speakeasies
Bessie Smith
Movement of African Americans out of the rural South to cities in the North
Great Migration
What did fundamentalists believe in?
Literal interpretation of the Bible
First American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, he used the character "Babbit" to mock Americans for their conformity and materialism
Sinclair Lewis
Illegally smuggling alcohol is called by what name?
bootlegging
Poet whose works were often read to the beat of Jazz music
Langston Hughes
Women being forced to observe stricter social and moral standards than men in the 20's was known as the what?
Double Standard
Among the founders of this organization was W.E.B. Dubois
NAACP
This composer merged traditional elements of music with American Jazz. His most famous work was "Rhapsody in Blue".
George Gershwin
Most famous gangster associated with Prohibition
Al Capone
This jazz pianist and composer won fame as one of America's greatest composers. He had a national radio show and wrote pieces such as Mood Indigo and Sophisticated Lady.
Duke Ellington
Who were emancipated young women embracing new fashions and urban attitudes of the day?
Flappers
U.N.I.A.
This writer's poems celebrated youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
What famous F. Scott Fitzgerald novel is all about the Prohibition Era?
The Great Gatsby
In many of her novels, books of folklore, poetry and short stories, this writer portrayed the lives of poor, unschooled Southern African Americans
Zora Neale Hurston
Why was Prohibition hard to enforce? Name one reason.
2. Law enforcement officials often took bribes.
3. Insufficient funds and agents to enforce the law.
Teacher John Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution and fined $100
Famous painter whose works showed the skyline and grandeur of New York
Georgia O'Keefe
Who is the famous Prohibition Era crusader who carried a hatchet into saloons?
Carry Nation
This major dramatic actor's performance in Shakespeare's Othello was widely acclaimed
Paul Robeson
This author was wounded in WWI and wrote works criticizing war and introduced a tough, simplified style of writing that set a new literary standard.
Ernest Hemingway