1920's Vocab
Carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts.
Flapper
A style of music characterized by the use of improvisation.
Jazz
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production
Henry Ford
Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI
Ernest Hemingway
A period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices
Bull Market
Secret bars where alcohol could be purchased illegally.
Speakeasies
Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion
Fundamentalism
"Home Run King" in baseball, provided an idol for young people and a figurehead for America
Babe Ruth
African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Marcus Garvey
paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest
The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment.
Prohibition
Movement of over 300,000 African Americans from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920.
Great Migration
This man wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "My People"
Langston Hughes
1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools
Scopes Trial
Smugglers of illegal alcohol during prohibition.
Bootlegger
A system originally determined by legislation in 1921, limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year.
Quota System
Became president when Harding died of pneumonia.
Calvin Coolidge
Pres.1921 laissez-faire, little regard for gov't or presidency. "return to normalcy" after Wilson + his progressive ideals
Warren G. Harding
Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines
Mass Production
A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art, music, and literature, flourished.
Harlem Renaissance
Flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after World War I
Consumer Revolution
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
this person captured the grandeur of New York using intensely colored canvases.
Georgia O'Keefe
Gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment