Ch. 13 History Final – Flashcards

Bootlegger

Fundamentalism

Flapper

Prohibition

Double Standard

Charles A. Lindbergh

George Gershwin

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Zora Neale Huston

Harlem Renaissance

Paul Roberson

Funding was needed because the job for enforcement involved patrolling 18,700 miles of coastline as well as inland borders, tracking down illegal stills, monitoring highways for truckloads of alcohol to be sure none was siphoned off for illegal purchases

In March 1925, Tennessee passed the nation's first law that made it a crime to teach evolution. John T. Scopes taught evolution in his biology class and was arrested and put on trial. The Scopes trial was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100. The Tennessee Supreme Court later changed the verdict on technicality, but the law outlawing the teaching of evolution remained in effect.

Close-fitting felt hats, bright waistless dresses an inch above the knees, skin-toned silk stockings, sleek pumps, and string of beads replaced the dark and prim ankle-length dresses, whalebone corsets, and petticoats of the Victorian days. Young women clipped their long hair into boyish bobs and dyed it jet black. Some women began smoking, drinking in public, talking openly about sex, and danced the fox trot, camel walk, tango, Charleston, and shimmy. Many middle-class men and women began to view marriage as more of an equal partnership.

The decline in birthrate was due to the wider availability of birth control. Technological innovations simplified household labor and family life. Stores flowed with ready-made clothes, sliced bread, and canned foods. Public agencies provided services for the elderly, public health clinics helped the sick, and workers' compensation assisted those who could no longer work. These innovations freed home makers from some of their traditional family responsibilities and many housewives focused more of their attention on their homes, husbands, children, and pastimes. Marriages were based on romantic love and companionship. Children no longer worked in factories with adults, instead they spent most of their days in school or in organized activities with others their own age.

Prior to the 1920s, high school had catered to college-bound students. In contrast, high schools of the 1920s began offering a broad range of courses such as vocational training for those interested in industrial jobs. The cost for education double from 1913-1920 and then doubled again in 1926.

Sinclair Lewis: used the main character in his novel, Babbit, to ridicule Americans for their conformity and materialism F. Scott Fitzgerald: revealed the negative side of the period's gaiety and freedom, portraying wealthy and attractive people leading imperiled lives in gilded surroundings. Edna St. Vincent Millay: wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints T.S. Elliot presented an agonized view of a society that seemed stripped of humanity in his poem, The Wasteland. Lost Generation: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Passos were so soured by American culture that they chose to settle in Europe.

This showed that African Americans were trying to secure jobs so they could raise families and escape segregation

they expressed pride in the African American culture; books described difficult lives of the working class and expressed pain of life in black ghettoes and strain of being black in world dominated by whites