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Hristina Bundalo
Chapter 13 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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