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SS Midterm 1920s

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Ku Klux Klan Secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep blacks from obtaining their civil rights.
Flappers Young women in the 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior.
Twenty-First Amendment The U.S. constitutional amendment that repealed the ban on the manufacture, sale, and transport of alchohol, ratified in 1933.
Prohibition The banning of the manufacture, sale, and transport of alchohol. Prohibition made crime a big business in the US.
Harlem Rennaissance Period of great African American artistic acheivement in the 1920s; named for the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, NY.
Speakeasy Secret, illegal clubs that served alchohol during the prohibition.
Great Migration Mass migration of about 500,000 African Americans to Midwestern and Northern U.S. cities during and after World War I.
Bootlegger People who smuggled liquor into the United States during Prohibition from Canada, Mexico, Russia, and other foreign countries.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Author who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s and his book, The Great Gatsby, told the story of the Roaring 20s.
Duke Ellington African American jazz composer who was also a famous jazz band leader.
Charles Lindbergh A U.S. aviator who made the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight that took place in 1927.
Langston Hughes The most well-known African American poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots.
Talkies A term for a motion picture film that includes sound or dialogue.
Scopes Trial The trial questioning John Scopes illegal teaching of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Jazz Age A term for the 1920s; so called because of jazz music's popularity during the decade.
Georgia O'Keefe A famous American Artist known for her paintings of urban scenes and the US Southwest.
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