Chapter 21.1
During which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited.
Prohibition
An emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.
Flappers
Who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
Charles Lindbergh
A poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary—the organization fought for legislation to protect African-American rights.
James Weldon Johnson
The son of a one-time slave, became a major dramatic actor. His performance in Shakespeare’s Othello, first in London and later in New York City, was widely acclaimed.
Paul Robeson
To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden saloons and nightclubs.
Speakeasies
Magazines, newspapers, and advertisements promoted the image of the flapper, and young people openly discussed courtship and relationships in ways that scandalized their elders.
Double Standards
When he merged traditional elements with American jazz, thus creating a new sound that was identifiably American.
George Gershwin
An immigrant from Jamaica, believed that African Americans should build a separate society.
Marcus Garvey
Joined Oliver’s group, which became known as the Creole Jazz Band.
Louis Armstrong
A name for a smuggler’s practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots who smuggled it in from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies.
Bootleggers
How did women's jobs change in the 1920's
More women worked outside the home, in offices, stores, and factories. But they still got paid less and had fewer chances than men.
He produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York.
George keefe
A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.
Harlem Renaissance
A jazz pianist and composer.
Duke Ellington
The most famous trial lawyer of the day, to defend Scopes. William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic candidate for president and a devout fundamentalist, served as a special prosecutor.
Clarence Darrow
What did the 19th amendment do for women
It gave women the right to vote
Who coined the term “Jazz Age” to describe the 1920s.
F. Fitzgerald
A novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant, was a major figure whose militant verses urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination.
Claude McKay
A female blues singer, was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade.
Bessie Smith
The Protestant movement grounded in a literal, or non symbolic, interpretation of the Bible.
Fundamentalism
How did life for women change at home in the 1920's
New inventions like washing machines and vacuum cleaners made housework easier, so women had more free time.
The first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature, was among the era’s most outspoken critics. In his novel Babbitt, Lewis used the main character of George F. Babbitt to ridicule Americans for their conformity and materialism.
Sinclair Lewis
was the movement’s best-known poet. Many of Hughes’s 1920s poems described the difficult lives of working-class African Americans.
Langston Hughes
What are the two major causes of the dust bowl?
Overproduction and Drought