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Prohibtion and 1920s
Chapter 13 Vocab
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History
10th Grade
04/15/2008

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Prohibition
Definition
banning of Alcohol
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Speakeasy
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hidden saloons and night clubs where you could purchase alcohol
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Bottlegger
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people who bought alcohol and smuggled it in from Canada
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Fundamentalism
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a protestant movement grounded in a literal interpretatio of the Bible
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Clarence Darrow
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the most famous trial lawyer of the day, defended scopes
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Scopes Trial
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a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools
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Flapper
Definition
an emancipated young woman who embracd the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day
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Double standard
Definition
a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to woman
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Babe Ruth
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Baseball's legendary star was New York Yankees slugger
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Gertude Ederle
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the first woman to swim the English Channel
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Charles A. Lindbergh
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made first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic
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Geroge Gershwin
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Composer of concert music, wrote Rhapsody in blue and concerto in F
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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famous for her paintings of the Southwest
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Sinclair Lewis
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1st american to win nobel prize in literature (wrote Babbit, Satire of Middle Class)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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coined the term the "jazz age", wrote about the emptiness of wealth
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from constraints
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Ernest Hemingway
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wounded in the 1sy WW became the best known expatritate author (a farewell to arms author)
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Zora Neale Hurston
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an female African American writer (major part of harlem renaissance)
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James Weldon Johnson
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poet, lawyer and NAACP executive secretary
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Marcus Garvey
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a Jamican immigrant who believed that African american should bulid a seperate society
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Harlem Renissance
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a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture
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Claude McKay
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a Jamican Immigrant who was a major influence during the Harlem Reniassance
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Langston Hughes
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the movement's best-known poet wrote about freedom and equality
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Paul Robeson
Definition
the son of a run away slave became a actor, singer, and a soviet backer
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Louis Armstrong
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a trumpet player who rose to stardom during the jazz era
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Duke Ellington
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a jazz pianist and composer led his ten-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club
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Bessie Smith
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a female blues singer (queen of blues)
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Great Migration
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movement of African Americans north
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Radio
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most powerful '20s communications medium
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Al Capone
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violent Chicago gnagster and bootlegger
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Charlie Chaplin
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"Little Tramp" comic
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NAACP
Definition
organization, led an antilynching campign
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Charleston
Definition
dance craze of the 1920s
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