Vocab
Trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution.
What is Scopes Trial?
The name of the Artistic Movement that began in New York City, and was driven predominantly by African Americans.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The name of the famous mobster who ruled Chicago during the Prohibition, nicknamed 'Scarface.'
Who is Al Capone?
This allowed women to begin working in traditionally male-dominated jobs, as they had to go abroad in order to participate in it.
What is World War I?
This is a subgenre of music that originated in the deep south, incoropating spirituals, work songs, field hollars, shouts, chants, and is typically of a more melancholic or lamentable tone.
What are blues?
Set of principles granting one group more freedom than another group.
What is a Double Standard?
The Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, and Radio City Music Hall are all examples of this.
What is Art Deco?
The primary movement behind the adoption of Prohibition into US law.
What is Temperance?
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Who are fundementalists?
The new symbol of women; she was a liberated young woman with independent, urban attitudes; assertive; liked the sophisticated new fashions of the day.
What is a flapper?
Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
30th president of the United States; succeeded to presidency on death of Harding; elected in 1924.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
One example of an artist from this movement, which aims to depict art as dreamlike, unconscious, illogical, or even unsettling, was Salvador Dali.
What is surrealism?
People during the twenties would often find themselves in these places, associating with people of different classes, races, and sexes than traditional culture would allow.
What are speakeasies?
Between 1910 and 1920, a movement where hundreds of thousands of African Americans uprooted themselves from their homes in the South and moved north to the big cities in search of jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
This city was made famous for popularizing Jazz culture- famous for Mardi Gras and its Creole culture.
Where is New Orleans?
Best-known Harlem Renaissance poet; described lives of working-class African Americans.
Who is Langston Hughes?
A famous Disney cartoon that originated during the Roaring Twenties, famously featuring a mouse driving a steam boat.
What is Steamboat Willie?
This amendment prohibited the sale of alcohol in the US.
A form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of left-wing ideologies in a society, especially communism and socialism.
What is the Red Scare?
Won renown as one of America’s greatest composers. Among his most popular works were “Mood Indigo” and “Sophisticated Lady.”
Who is Duke Ellington?
Immigrant anarchists accused of murder.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
Something more like an "anti-art movement," this began during the great war, and reacts to the horrors of World War I with absurdist rejection of traditional art techniques.
What is Dadaism?
The rise in crime in the US was triggered by an increase in this, which led to police officers looking the other way from crimes committed by the organized mobs.
What is corruption?
Unions would frequently undergo stikes, whereby employees would refuse to work in protest to the company until they make concessions; these were employees who agreed to work during the strike—and used force.
What are strikebreakers?
During the Jazz age, many new dance styles would become popular; this is one popular dance.
What is the Charleston?