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Chapter 13 AH
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| One of the most prominent writers *W* during the Harlem Renaissance. | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Anti-lynching laws - No hanging of people due to racism, gave the issue to the federal court. UNIA - To promote African American business and instill black pride and unity. | Efforts of the HR Reformers/Activists |
| An activist *A*, that believed that African Americans should build a separate society, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which promoted black pride & unity. | Marcus Garvey |
| Artistic movement that combined racial pride and political organization. It resulted into a flowering of African American arts. | Harlem Renaissance |
| The first important writer *W* of the Harlem Renaissance, expressed a proud defiance and bitter contempt of racism, and his *militant* verses urged African Americans to resist racism. | Claude McKay |
| Best known poet during the Harlem Renaissance, known for his poems based on the difficult lives of working-class African Americans. | Langston Hughes |
| Trumpet player performer *P* that became one of the most well known jazz artists of all time. | Louis Armstrong |
| Jazz pianist performer *P* and composer, led his ten-piece orchestra at the cotton club. | Duke Ellington |
| Female blue singer who became the highest paid black artist in the world. She became known as the Empress of the Blues. Her lyrics focused on unfulfilled love, poverty, and oppression. (Performer *P*) | Bessie Smith |
| Sell-binding oratory, mass meetings, parades, and a message of pride was how the NAACP...? | Combated Injustice |
| To achieve black nationalism through the celebration of black history was the purpose of the...? | UNIA |
| The reputations of African Americans increased in a good and popular way from the impact of...? | Literature & Performance |
| The impact of ______ introduced a new kind of music from African Americans. | Jazz |
| An emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. | Flapper |
| Flappers started to change their fashion to things people have never seen before in order to change the...? | View of Women |
| Jobs in offices, factories, stores, and professions were work opportunities for ______ in the 1920s. | Women |
| How were women view prior to the 1920s? | Housework and Child-Rearing |
| A set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women; required women to observe stricter standards of behavior than men did. | Double Standard |
| Banning of Alcohol | Prohibition |
| Which amendment banned alcohol (prohibition)? | 18th |
| A biology teacher who went on trial after he illegally taught evolution. | John T. Scopes |
| Most famous trial lawyer at the time, he defended Scopes. | Clarence Darrow |
| The man who prosecuted Scopes | William Jennings Bryan |
| Scopes was found guilty and fined $100 | The outcome of the Scopes trial |
| Protester who spoke in a literal, or non-symbolic, interpretation of the Bible. | Fundamentalist |
| Hidden saloons and nightclubs | Speakeasy |
| Most notorious gangster whose empire netted over $60 million / year. Most dominant bootlegger during prohibition. | Al Capone |
| Pulling away from involvement in world affairs. | Isolationism |
| A fear of the spread of communism in the U.S. | Red Scare |
| People who opposed any from of government. | Anarchists |
| People who smuggled in wine from other countries. | Bootleggers |
| Hate group formed after the Civil war who aimed to prosecute anyone that wasn't like themselves. | Ku Klux Klan |
| Labor leader/organizer, called for a strike against labor conditions, became a hero after it succeeded. | John L. Lewis |
| Harlem is located in this city. | NYC |
| Supporters of prohibition that alcohol was this. | The root of all evil. |
| American banks would loan Germany money to pay off their war reparations. | Dawes Plan |
| Limited the number of people who could enter the U.S. from each foreign country. | Quota System |
| Anyone who was foreign, communist, anarchist, a prime example being Sacco and Vanzetti. | Targets of the Red Scare |
| The U.S. contributed to Hysteria by using this as an excuse during the Red Scare. | Nativism |
| This is how prohibition led to an increase of organized crime. | Profit |
| Drinking, gambling, and casual dating were tolerated in big cities, but not in...? | Small Towns |
| State ownership of property, one party government, dictatorship most of the time. | Communism |
| Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted because they vaguely matched a description of a suspect and were Italian. This led the case to be...? | Controversial |