US History CH. 21 – Flashcards
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Prohibition
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The manufacture, sell and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal
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`Speakeasies
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Hidden saloons and nightclubs were alcohol was sold during the prohibition
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Bootleggers
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smuggled alcohol in the legs of boots
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Fundamentalism
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This was defended at the Scopes trial. The bible was right about everything.
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Clarence Darrow
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The American Civil Liberties Union hired him to represent John T. Scopes
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Scopes trial
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Fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society
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William Jennings Bryan
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He was called as a witness/prosecutor in the scopes trial
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How did prohibition help lead to the rise of organized crime?
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It takes a certain person to start this type of crime. Because of it being illegal, more people wanted it.
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What was the outcome of the scopes trial?
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The act was not removed. Scopes was found guilty and was fined $100
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Flapper
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Emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day
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Double Standard
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A set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men then to women
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What are some "Women's Professions"
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-Nursing -Teachers -Librarians
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Margaret Singer opened the first what?
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Birth Control clinic
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Women in the 20s experienced greater freedom through the help of technological innovations that simplified ___________
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Household labor
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Did the birth rate drop or grow in the 1920s?
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drop because of the new resources
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What are three negative effects that accompanied women's changing roles in the 20s?
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1. Strain on the working class 2. Teens would spend less time with their families 3. Double standard
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What prompted the sharp rise in high school enrollment during the 20s?
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Prosperous times and higher educational standards for industrial jobs
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How did radio have a strong impact on American society?
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Created a shared national experience of hearing the news as it happened
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Wrote the Great Gatsby
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Helen Willis
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Dominated women's tennis
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Ernest Hemingway
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Introduced a simple, tough style of prose
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Wrote poems celebrating youth
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Babe Ruth
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Famous home-run slugger
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Charles A. Lindbergh
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Made first solo flight across the Atlantic
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George Gershwin
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Merged popular concert music with American jazz
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York
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Sinclair Lewis
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First American to win noble prize in literature
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Great Migration
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The transition on millions of blacks moving from the South to the North in search of jobs
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Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, whose goal was to help blacks advance economically and socially?
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Marcus Garvey
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NAACP made what law one of its main priorities?
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Anti-lynching
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under his leadership, NAACP fought for legislation to protect African-American rights
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James Weldon Johnson
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Harlem Renaissance
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A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture
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Claude McKay
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A writer who was a major figure whose militant verses urged African-Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination
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Langston Hughes
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The movements best known poet. Many of his poems described the difficult lives of working class African-Americans.
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Paul Robeson
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Dramatic actor
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Louis Armstrong
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Trumpet player. His talent rocked him to stardom in the jazz world.
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
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Jazz pianist and composer and composer
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Bessie Smith
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Female blues singer. Was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade.
