Military
18th Amendment &
Scopes Triai
People
This and That
Harlem Renaissance
100
To disband an army
Demobilize
100
Ban on the manufacture, transport and sale of alcohol
Prohibition
100
Honest, quiet and frugal President who took office when Harding died
Calvin Coolidge
100
Led to the rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants with radical political views in 1919 and 1920 due to fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.
Red Scare
100
Name for a period of flowering of African American arts and literature in New York during the 1920's
Harlem Renaissance
200
Reduction or limitation of the size, equipment or armaments of a military service
Disarmament
200
Law that gave the government the power to enforce the 18th Amendment
Volstead Act
200
Psychiatrist who stressed the importance of the unconscious mind
Sigmund Freud
200
Trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional religious ideas
Modernism
200
Harlem Renaissance writer who wrote of the struggles of ordinary African Americans. "If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"
Claude McKay
300
Treaty signed in 1921 by the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan not to seek territorial expansion in the Pacific Ocean
Four Powers Treaty
300
Illegal bar during prohibition
Speakeasy
300
Trumpet player who influenced the development of jazz
Louie Armstrong
300
Pertaining to worldly ideas or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred.
Secular
300
Native Floridian [from Eatonville] folklorist and author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God." I worked with her aunt for years and she told me her writings are best read aloud to you by someone who knows the vernacular of her time.
Zora Neale Hurston
400
Meeting held in 1921 and 1922 in which nations agreed to limit construction of large warships
Washington Naval Disarmament Conference
400
1925 trial of John Scopes, a Tennessee schoolteacher, for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution
Scopes Trial aka Scopes Monkey Trial
400
Blues singer known as the "Empress of the Blues"
Bessie Smith
400
Movement or attitude stressing strict adherence to a set of religious principles
Fundamentalism
400
American musical art form based on improvisation that came to represent the 1920's
Jazz
500
Novel by Ernest Hemingway set in Italy during WW I
A Farewell to Arms
500
Defense attorney who became famous as a defense attorney in the Scopes Trial
Clarence Darrow
500
Two anarchists who were convicted of robbery and two murders in the early 1920's and executed. Both were Italian born but had been living in the United States for years. Many people have thought they were convicted because of their political views and not because of the evidence against them.
Sacco and Vanzetti
500
Group violently opposed to African Americans, Jews, Catholics and immigrants
Ku Klux Klan
500
Melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence that gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll. To find out what a 12 bar sequence is, here is a video on YouTube http://tinyurl.com/buk9jzr
Blues
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