1920+1930s💀😐😯🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱😵🙄 Flashcards
Spanish flu
Spanish (believed started Kansas) influenza- pandemic (disease that spreads across many nations….really started from hogs
•Last 9 months and killed 20 million worldwide
•US ½ million deaths
•Crime rate dropped
•Fines for sneezing/coughing in public
Williams Jennings Bryant
Prosecuting attorney at the scopes monkey trials
Clarence Darrow
Defending attorney at the scopes monkey trial
Lost generation
A group ex-patriot’s during the 1920´s
Prohibition
Outlawed alcohol
Speakeasy
A place where alcohol was sold illegally
Bootlegger
A person who smuggled alcohol into the US during prohibition
Red Scare
Fear of a revolution with the intent to make the US a communist contry
19th amendment
Granted women the right to vote
Sacco and Vanzetti
Two radical Italian immigrants who where controversially found guilty of murder
Fundamentalism
Taking the word of the Bible literally
Scopes trial
A case in 1925 in which the biology teacher teacher John Scopes was tried for teaching evolution
Flapper
An young woman in the 1920s that embrace modern fashion and urban attitudes
Harlem Renaissance
The growth of African Americans arts
cotton Club
Famous jazz club located in Harlem where the musicians of the Harlem Renaissance often Played.