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Chapter 13- US Hist
Chapter 13- US History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prohibition | January, 1920, the 18th Amendment was passed banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverage |
| Flapper | An emancipated young woman who embraces the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day |
| Double- Standard | A set of principles that required stricter standards of behavior for women than for men |
| Bootleggers | Smugglers who carried bottles of liquor in the legs of their boots |
| Fundamentalism | The Protestant Christian movement grounded in a literal interpretation of the Bible |
| Sinclair Lewis | The first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature; an outspoken critic of America |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | Produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Wrote to the top of the African-American literary society by hard work; went after the good life in America |
| Bessie Smith | Female blues singer; perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade |
| Duke Ellington | Jazz pianist and composer |
| Louis Armstrong | African American trumpet player; he became the most important and influential musician in the history of jazz |
| Claude McKay | Novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant; his music urged African-Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination |
| Clarence Darrow | Lawyer hired by the ACLU to defend John T. Scopes |
| Scopes Trial | This became a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society; July 10, 1925 |
| James Weldon Johnson | Poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary; worked against lynching, wrote about black culture in New York during the roaring twenties |
| Paul Robeson | Became a dramatic actor; performed in London and New York; he supported the Soviet Union and the Communist Party |
| Langston Hughes | Best known poet of the Harlem Movement; wrote of black defiance, also of hope |
| Marcus Garvey | Immigrant from Jamaica; believed that African-Americans should build a separate society |
| Ernest Hemmingway | Became the best-known expatriate author; criticized the glorification of war |
| Speak-easy | To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden saloons or nightclubs; when inside, they had to be quiet to avoid detection |
| Harlem Renaissance | A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture |
| Charles Lindbergh | Made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic in May 1927 |
| George Gershwin | Jewish composer, merged popular music with American jazz creating a new American sound |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Coined the term "Jazz Age" to describe the 1920s |
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