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10th U.S. Hist/ch 13
10th U.S. History the roaring twentiesVOCABULARY
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| prohibition | the eighteenth amendment |
| speakeasies | illegal bars hidden |
| bootleggers | practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots |
| fundamentalism | skeptical of some scientific discoveries and theories |
| Clarence Darrow | famous trial lawyer of the day, defended Scopes |
| Scopes Trial | a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools |
| double standard | a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men to than women |
| flapper | an emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day |
| Charles a. Lindbergh | made the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic |
| George Gershwin | merged traditional elements with american jazz, thus creating a new sound that was identifiably American |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York |
| Sinclair Lewis | first american to win a Nobel Prize in literature, was among the era's most outspoken critics |
| F Scott Fitxgerald | coined the term Jazz Age to describe the 1920's |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints |
| Ernest Hemingway | wounded in world war 1 became the best known expatriate author |
| James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary |
| Marcus Garvey | an immigrant form Jamaica, believed that African Americans should build their separate society |
| Harlem Renaissance | a literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture |
| Claude McKay | a novelist, poem and Jamaican immigrant was a major figure militant verses urged African Americans to resist prejudice |
| Langston Hughes | the movements best known poet |
| Paul Robeson | the son of a one time slave, became a major dramatic actor |
| Louis Armstrong | joined oliver's group which became known as the creole jazz band |
| Bessie Smith | a female blues singer, was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade |
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