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Chapter 21
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prohibition | during which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited |
| speakeasy | so called because when inside, one spoke quietly |
| bootlegger | named for a smuggler's practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots |
| fundamentalism | the protestant movement grounded in a literal, or non symbolic, interpretation of the bible |
| clarence darrow | the most famous trial lawyer of the day |
| scopes trial | was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public |
| flapper | A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior |
| double standard | a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women |
| charles a. lindbergh | made the first nonstop solo flight across the atlantic |
| george gershwin | he merged traditional elements with american jazz |
| georgia O'keeffe | produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of new york |
| sinclair lewis | the first american to win a nobel prize in literature |
| f. scott fitzgerald | who coined the term jazz age to describe the 1920 |
| edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from tr |
| Ernest Hemingway | |
| Zora Neale Hurston | |
| james weldon johnson | |
| marcus garvey | |
| harlem renaissance | |
| claude mckay | |
| langston hughes | |
| paul robeson | |
| louis armstrong | |
| duke ellington | |
| bessie smith |