Ch.24.2 and 24.3 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Flappers | Women who cut their hair short, wore make-up, and wore short dresses who showed different ways that women acted |
| Fundamentalism | Protestant religious movement |
| Scopes Trial | John T. Scopes was convicted for teaching children about evolution |
| Twenty-First Amendment | Ended prohibition |
| Red Scare | A time of fear of communists or Reds |
| Great Migration | African Americans left their jobs in the south to take jobs in northern factories |
| Marcus Garvey | Encouraged black people to show their pride in their culture |
| Talkie | A motion picture with sound |
| Jazz Age | An explosion in the popularity of Jazz music |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | Well known for her detailed paintings of flowers and of the southwest |
| Expatriates | People who leave their home country to live elsewhere |
| Lost Generation | Writers who criticized American society in the 1920's |
| Langston Hughes | Harlem Renaissance writer |
| Harlem Renaissance | A period of African American artistic accomplishments |
| Nellie Ross | One of the first women to become a governor in the United states [From Wyoming] |
| Miriam Ferguson | One of the first women to become a governor in the United states [From Texas] |
| American Civil Liberties Union | founded to defend people's civil rights |
| Al Capone | Murdered rival Made 60 million a year from illegal alcohol business |
| KKK | Racist group that terrorized African Americans during reconstruction |
| League of United Latin American Citizens | Worked to end unfair treatment such a segregation in schools and voting restrictions |
| KDKA | First Commercial Radio Station |
| Al Jolson | Created first talkie |
| Charles Lindbergh | Flew the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Gertrude Ederle | First women to swim the English Channel |
| Negro League | League that Satchel Paige and Babe Ruth played in |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychologist |
| Famous Dances | Toddle, Shimmy, Charleston |
| Bessie Smith | Leading Blues Singer |
| Big Band | Music that blended many instruments together |
| Sinclair Lewis | First American to win Nobel Peace Prize in Literature |
| Emergency Quota Act of 1921 | limited number of immigrants allowed to enter US; favored western Europeans |
| National Origins Act of 1924 | banned immigration from eastern Asia; further reduced overall immigration numbers |
| NAACP | publicized lynchings that were taking place in the South |
| Blues | expression of the suffering of African Americans during slavery |
| Edward Hopper | Artist |
| Gertrude Stein | Writer |
| F.Scott Fitzgerald | Writer |
| Ernest Hemingway | Writer |
| Claude Mckay | Activist, Poet |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Writer |
| Ferdinand Joseph Lamenthe | Jelly Morton Roll |
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