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Marissa Russo
Chapter 13 Vocabulary
Prohibition | banning of manufactures, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages. |
Speakeasy | place were alcoholic beverages were sold illegally during Prohibition. |
Bootlegger | person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the United States during Prohibition. |
Fundamentalism | Protest religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are true. |
Clarence Darrow | famous lawyer that defended Scopes. |
Scopes Trial | fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and society. |
Flapper | women who embraced new fashions and urban attitude. |
Double Standard | principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women. |
Charles A. Lindbergh | small town pilot who made first nonstop solo flight across Atlantic. |
George Gershwin | music composer |
Georgia O' Keefee | artist producing colored canvases the captured the grandeur of New York. |
Sinclair Lewis | first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | who coined the Jazz Age in 1920. |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth and life of indepence and freedom from traditional constraints. |
Ernest Hemingway | wounded in WWI became best known author. |
Zora Neale Hurston | girl in Eatonville, Florida in early 1900s loved to read stories and myths. |
James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer and NAACP executive secretary. |
Marcus Garvey | immigrant from Jamaica believed that African Americans should build a separate society. |
Harlem Renaissance | a literacy and artist movement celebrating African American culture. |
Claude McKay | novelist, poet, Jamaican immigrant major figure who urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination. |
Langston Hughes | movements best known poet. |
Paul Robeson | son of a one time slave became a major dramatic author. |
Louis Armstrong | trumpet player joined oliver's group best known as Creole Jazz Band. |
Duke Ellington | Jazz pianist and composer. |
Bessie Smith | female blues singer perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade. |