Name given to literary movement that celebrated the work of blacks
What is Harlem Renaissance?
100
The time period also know as...
What is Jazz Age?
200
He represented the honesty, bravery and sense of adventure the U.S. seemed to have lost
What is Charles Lindbergh?
200
Amendment that created prohibtion
What is 18th? 19th is women's suffrage
200
By 1930 40% of Americans had this
What is radio?
200
Her work celebrated the simple person's artform, people whose simple values reflected their survival of slavery
What is Zora Neale Hurston?
200
Marriage became more about this..
What is love? (Not neccesarily who their parents wanted them to marry.)
300
ACLU attorney in the Scopes Trial
What is Clarence Darrow?
300
Religious group who believe the bible should be taken literally and who advocated a return to traditional values for America
What is fundamentalist? This group helped the fight against teaching evolution, also maintained their stance of support for prohibition
300
Repealed prohibition
What is 21st? Prohibition lasted for 33 years, and helped to create organized crime (Al Capone)
300
The Great Migration also caused this between blacks & whites
What is race riots?
300
These new technologies helped to reshape the role of women and mothers
What is new appliances that shortern domestic tasks and made them easier? This would help women to pursue other interests and increased their freedom from being just a housewife
400
Her art produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York
What is Georgia O'Keeffe?
400
Higher standards for industrial jobs and times of prosperiety changed this in education
What is large increase of high school students? Also, high school began to teach students not only for higher education (college) but VOCATIONAL jobs
400
After the discovery of this, everyone wanted decorations and furniture in the Egyptian style
What is Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb?
400
poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary who fought for anitlynching laws
What is James Weldon Johnson?
400
He blended Jazz with traditional elements to create a sound uniquely American
What is George Gerschwin?
500
First American to win a Nobel prize for literature
What is Sinclair Lewis? For his book Babbit, which ridiculed Americans for their conformity and materialism
500
Created the American Birth Control League
What is Margret Sanger? This change then affected family life and increased the independence of women
500
Langston Hughes, thought the Harlem Renaissance was launched with THIS PLAY, a black musical comedy popular in 1921. “It gave just the proper push . . . to that Negro vogue of the ‘20s,”
What is Shuffle Along?
500
Perhaps the most celebrated poet-"A Dream Deferred"
What is Langston Hughes?
500
Name given to some writers such as Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos were so soured by American culture that they chose to settle in Europe, mainly in Paris.
What is "Lost Generation"? Name given by Gertrude Stein