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history chap 13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prohibition | manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol was legally prohibited |
| speakeasy | illegal places where they drank alcohol |
| bootlegger | smugglers of alcohol |
| fundamentalism | believed the bible is literal |
| Clarence Darrow | a famous trial lawyer |
| Scopes Trial | a fight over religious teachings and evolution in schools |
| flapper | women that embraced new trends like smoking and short hair |
| double standard | giving more or less to people |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | first person to fly across the Atlantic non stop |
| George Gershwin | concert music composer |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | made intensely colored canvas |
| Sinclair Lewis | the first american to win the nobel prize in literature |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | coined the term jazz age |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth |
| Ernest Hemingway | best known expatriate |
| Zora Neal Hurston | a girl that liked to read |
| James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary |
| Marcus Garvey | immigrant from Jamaica |
| Harlem Renaissance | flowering creativity |
| Claude McKay | novelist and poet |
| Langston Hughes | movements best known poet |
| Paul Robeson | the son of a one time slave and an actor |
| Louis Armstrong | young trumpet player |
| Duke Ellington | a jazz pianist and composer |
| Bessie Smith | a female blues singer |