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history chap 13
Term | Definition |
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Prohibition | manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol was legally prohibited |
speakeasy | illegal places where they drank alcohol |
bootlegger | smugglers of alcohol |
fundamentalism | believed the bible is literal |
Clarence Darrow | a famous trial lawyer |
Scopes Trial | a fight over religious teachings and evolution in schools |
flapper | women that embraced new trends like smoking and short hair |
double standard | giving more or less to people |
Charles A. Lindbergh | first person to fly across the Atlantic non stop |
George Gershwin | concert music composer |
Georgia O'Keeffe | made intensely colored canvas |
Sinclair Lewis | the first american to win the nobel prize in literature |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | coined the term jazz age |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth |
Ernest Hemingway | best known expatriate |
Zora Neal Hurston | a girl that liked to read |
James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary |
Marcus Garvey | immigrant from Jamaica |
Harlem Renaissance | flowering creativity |
Claude McKay | novelist and poet |
Langston Hughes | movements best known poet |
Paul Robeson | the son of a one time slave and an actor |
Louis Armstrong | young trumpet player |
Duke Ellington | a jazz pianist and composer |
Bessie Smith | a female blues singer |