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Ch 20
Post War Social Change
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History
11th Grade
10/19/2011

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flapper
Definition
a 1920s term used to describe a new type of young woman: rebellious, energetic, and bold
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demographics
Definition
the statistics that describe a population, such as data on race or income
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barrio
Definition
a Spanish-speaking neighborhood
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mass media
Definition
print and broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people
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Jazz Age
Definition
term used to describe the 1920s
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Lost Generation
Definition
a group of American writers in the the 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and who often chose to flee to Europe
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
African American literary
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bootleggers
Definition
Term used to describe an illegal supplier of alcohol during Prohibition
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speakeasies
Definition
bars that operated illegally during the time of Prohibition
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fundamentalism
Definition
set of religious beliefs including traditional Christian  ideas about Jesus Christ; the belief that the Bible was inspired by God and does not contain contradictions or errors, and is literally true
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Scopes trial
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1925 court case in which Charles Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools
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