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Hristina Bundalo
Chapter 13 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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prohibition | the banning of alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition |
bootlegger | a person who smuggled alcoholic drinks into the US during prohibition |
fundamentalists | a protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the bible are literally true |
Clarence Darrow | the most famous trial lawyer of the day to defend scopes |
Scopes Trail | a sensational 1925 court case in which biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution |
Flapper | one of the free thinking young women who embraced the few fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920's |
double standard | a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than women |
Charles A. Lindbergh | made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic |
George Gershwin | created jazz |
Georgia O'Keefeer | produced intensely colored convases |
Sin clair Lewis | the first American to win a nobal prize in literature |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | who joined the team "Jazz Age" to describe the 1920's |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth and life |
Ernest Hemingway | wounded in WW1 and became the best known evpatcates author |
Zora Neale Hurston | lived in Eatonville and loved adventure stories and myths |
James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer, and NAACP secretary |
Marcus Carvy | an immigrant from Jamaica |
Harlem Renaissance | a literary artistic movement celebrating afr. ame. culture |
Claude McKay | a novelist poet and Jamaican immigrant |
Langston Hughes | was the movements best- known poet |
Paul Robertson | the son of a one time slave, became a major dramatic actor |
Louis Armstrong | joined Olivers group which became known as the Creole Jazz Band |
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington | a jazz pianist and composer led his 10 piece orchestra at the club |
Bessie Smith | a female blues singer, was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade |