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| a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior |
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| a belief in a strict adherence to a set of basic principles (often religious in nature), sometimes as a reaction to perceived doctrinal compromises with modern social and political life |
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| Scopes Monkey Trial—was an American legal case that tested the Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach any thoughts on the origin of man other than the Biblical account of man’s origin |
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| an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States |
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| along with the Volstead Act (which defined "intoxicating liquors" excluding those used for religious purposes and sales throughout the U.S.), established Prohibition in the United States. Its ratification was certified on January 16, 1919. It is the only amendment to the Constitution that has been repealed (by the Twenty-first Amendment) |
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| reinforced the prohibition of alcohol in the United States |
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| refers to making, transporting and/or selling illegal alcoholic liquor |
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| a blind pig or blind tiger, is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the period known as Prohibition |
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| an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. |
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| the movement of 1.75 million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1910 to 1930 |
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| the flowering of African American intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s |
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| a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). |
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| an international self-help organization founded by Marcus Garvey |
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| a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions |
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| an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era who became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War |
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| an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist |
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| noted American aviation pioneer and author |
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| noted American aviation pioneer and author |
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| an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself |
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