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American Cultures 13
Chapter 13 Key Terms
Question | Answer |
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Flapper | A 1920's term used to describe a new type of young woman; rebellious, energetic, fun-loving, and bold |
Demographics | The statistics that describe a population, such as data on race or income |
Barrio | A spanish-speaking neighborhood |
Mass Media | Print and broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people |
Jazz Age | Term used to describe the 1920s |
Lost Generation | Group of writers in the 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values, and who often chose to flee to Europe |
Harlem Renaissance | African American literary awakening of the 1920s, centered in Harlem |
Bootleggers | Term used to describe a supplier of illegal alcohol during Prohibition |
Speakeasies | Bars that operated illegally during the time of Prohibition |
Fundamentalism | Set of religious beliefs including traditional Christian ideas about Jesus Christ, the belief that the Bible was inspired by God and does not contain contradictions or errors, and is literally true |
Scopes Trial | 1925 court case argued by Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in which the issue of teaching evolution in public schools was debated |