Terms
Roaring 20's/Jazz Age
John Steinbeck.
This jazz singer sang about the culture of his day.
Louis Armstrong.
What led to the mass production of cars and made them affordable to almost every American.
Henry Ford's assembly line.
This trial was about teaching evolution in schools.
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan were the lawyers.
Scopes (monkey) Trial.
This is what the "modern woman" of the 1920's was called.
Flappers
This disillusioned writer wrote The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This poet wrote about the culture of Harlem, NY.
Langston Hughes.
Vacuums, dishwashers, washing machines, and automobiles led to this.
More leisure (free) time.
18th.
This was America's foreign policy after WWI.
Isolationism.
This disillusioned writer was critical of the government.
H.L. Mencken
This poet wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Zora Neale Hurston.
This event sparked (led to) the Great Depression.
The Stock Market Crash.
Radios created a ______ in America.
Mass Culture.
This scandal was over the illegal selling of government land.
Teapot Dome Scandal.
This disillusioned writer wrote The Sun Also Rises.
Earnest Hemingway.
This female jazz singer is often known as the "Queen of Jazz."
Ella Fitzgerald.
This led to the Palmer Raids and the fear of communism.
The Red Scare.
This is a term to describe someone who wanted to break away from Traditional values in the 1920's.
Modernist.
This law tried to enforce prohibition.
Volstead Act
This disillusioned writer was from Mississippi. Wrote about southern culture.
William Faulkner.
This jazz artist played piano in the 1920's.
Duke Ellington.
What led to the creation of suburbs.
This is another word for Traditionalist.
Fundamentalism.