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Chp13Vocab_Ernst

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Prohibition   manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited  
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Speakeasy   nightclubs where you could illegally obtain alcohol  
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Bootlegger   people who smuggled alcohol from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies  
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Fuundamentalism   nonsymbolic interpretation of the Bible  
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Clarence Darrow   the most famous trail lawyer of the day  
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Scopes Trail   a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools  
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Flapper   an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions of the day  
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Double Standard   a set of principles granted greater sexual freedom to men than to women  
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Charles A. Lindbergh   made the first nonstop solo flight across the Alantic  
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George Gershwin   American Jazz music composer  
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Georgia O'Keeffe   produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York  
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Sinclair Lewis   the first American to win a noble prize in literature  
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F. Scott Fitzgerald   coined the term "Jazz Age"  
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Edna St. Vincent Millay   wrote poems celebrating youth and life of independence  
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Ernest Hemingway   became the best known expatriate author  
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Zora Neale Hurston   a girl in Eatonville  
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James Weldon Johnson   poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary  
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Marcus Garvey   an immigrant from Jamaica  
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Harlem Renaissance   a literary and artistic movement celebrating African American Culture  
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Claude McKay   a novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant  
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Langston Hughes   the movements best known poet  
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Paul Robeson   a major dramatic actor  
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Louis Armstrong   a young trumpet player  
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Duke Ellington   a jazz pianist and composer  
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Bessie Smith   a female blues singer  
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