chapter 12
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Prohibition | a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages |
| speakeasy | hidden saloons and nightclubs the illegally sold liquor |
| bootlegger | someone who makes or sells illegal liquor |
| Clarence Draw | Argued in court about teaching evolution in public schools |
| Scopes trial | a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school |
| Communism | economic and political system in which the gov't controls the economy by owning its farms and businesses |
| isolationism | policy of having little to do with the political affairs of foreign nations |
| tea pot dome scandal | Harding Administration- Albert B. Fall- secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. GRAFT. corruption in govt |
| Quota | A numerical limit |
| kellogg brand pact | agreementsigned 1925 in which nations agrees not to paose treat of war agianst another |
| stock | a share of ownership in a corporation |
| stock market | A system for buying and selling shares of companies |
| credit | using borrowed money to make a purchase |
| pay plan | aka installment paln .repaying credit over a set time |
| buying on margin | pay 10% down on stock, price raises on stock, sell stock, make enough $ to pay back stock broker and make your own $ stock value decreases payback is harder |
| Charles a lindbergh | He was the first person to fly to paris france a trans atlantic flight. He flew around the eifel tower and arrived in paris. |
| George Gershwin | United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937) |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | United States painter (1887-1986) |
| Sinclair Lewis | United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951) |
| F.Scott Fitzgerald | Novelist coined the term "jazz age" books:This side of paradise and the great gatsby |
| Edna St .Vincent millary | wrote poems |
| Ernest Hemingway | an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961) |
| Zora Neale hurston | African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance |
| James Weldon Johnson | Led the NAACP to protect African American Rights |
| Marcus Garvey | Many poor urban blacks turned to him. He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and he urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of UNIA grocery stores and other business |
| Harlem renaissance | a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |
| Claude Mckay | A poet who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement and wrote the poem "If We Must Die" after the Chicago riot of 1919. |
| langston hughes | poet who wrote about daily llives of working blacks he wove jazz in his poems |
| paul robeson | United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976) |
| louis armstrong | United States jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971), United States jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971) |
| duke ellington | United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader (1899-1974) |
| Bessie smith | United States blues singer (1894-1937), African American blues singer who played and important role in the Harlem Reniassance. |
| fundamentalism | A movement that pushed that the teachings of Darwin were destroying faith in God and the Bible.Belief that Bible should be taken literally. consisted of the old-time religionists who didn't want to conform to modern science. |
| flapper | liberated young woman, bobbed hair, short skirts, unchaperoned dates, cigs, and drank |
| double standard | a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women |
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