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Chp13Vocab_Ernst
Term | Definition |
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Prohibition | manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited |
Speakeasy | nightclubs where you could illegally obtain alcohol |
Bootlegger | people who smuggled alcohol from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies |
Fuundamentalism | nonsymbolic interpretation of the Bible |
Clarence Darrow | the most famous trail lawyer of the day |
Scopes Trail | a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools |
Flapper | an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions of the day |
Double Standard | a set of principles granted greater sexual freedom to men than to women |
Charles A. Lindbergh | made the first nonstop solo flight across the Alantic |
George Gershwin | American Jazz music composer |
Georgia O'Keeffe | produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York |
Sinclair Lewis | the first American to win a noble prize in literature |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | coined the term "Jazz Age" |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth and life of independence |
Ernest Hemingway | became the best known expatriate author |
Zora Neale Hurston | a girl in Eatonville |
James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary |
Marcus Garvey | an immigrant from Jamaica |
Harlem Renaissance | a literary and artistic movement celebrating African American Culture |
Claude McKay | a novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant |
Langston Hughes | the movements best known poet |
Paul Robeson | a major dramatic actor |
Louis Armstrong | a young trumpet player |
Duke Ellington | a jazz pianist and composer |
Bessie Smith | a female blues singer |