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1920's Vocabulary Flashcards

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Electric refrigerator, radios, phonographs, vacuum cleaner and other devices that allowed people to have more free time. Usually bought on credit.

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Appliance

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New developments in transportation, communication, and electrification that changed American life

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Technology

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A branch of manufacturing or any large-scale business activity

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Industries

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The US continues to create new industries and jobs. This allows for an increase in spending and more leisure

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Progress

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During the 1920s more Americans are becoming millionaires. Businesses continue to increase production to match consumer spending.

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Prosper

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Method of production in which workers add parts to a product that moves along a belt. Introduced by Henry Ford in 1913 and products are made faster which lowers costs.

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Assembly-line

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Films with sound

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Talkies

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Due to an increase in free time, people now we’re able to go to the movies.

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Motion picture

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A writer of music

George Gershwin, Aaron Copland

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Composer

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Powered machines, homes, inventions and equipment

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Electrification

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Motels, restaurants, gas industries, etc.

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Transportation-related industries

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Automobiles enabled people to travel and live out of cities

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Mobility

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Radio news and entertainment

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Broadcast

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Neighborhoods located out of cities; automobiles enabled people to live in them

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Suburbs

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Laws that segregated blacks from; prevented them from voting and sharing public areas with whites.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Mass movement of blacks moving from South to North for better jobs and less discrimination during the 1920’s and -30’s

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Great Migration

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A period of great artistic, musical, and literary developments on the African-American populations in Harlem, New York during the 1920s.

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Harlem Renaissance

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African American folk music that developed into jazz, characterized by minor harmonies, slow tempo, and melancholy words.

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Blues

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Music that originated among Southern blacks in the late 19th century; usually characterized by free improvising, strong rhythms, and unusual tonal effects on the saxophone, clarinet trombone, and trumpet

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Jazz

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The banning of all production, distribution, and selling of alcohol in the 1920s and early 30s.

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Prohibition

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The political movement to outlaw alcohol.

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Temperance Movement

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The only amendment to later be repealed; prohibited the manufacturing, sale, and transporting of alcoholic beverages.

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18th Ammendment

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Repealed the 18th amendment, meaning that making, selling, and transporting alcohol was once again legal.

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21st amendment

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Highly organized and directed group of criminals Raegan illegal activities. Example: bootleggers

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Organized crime

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People who made and snuggled alcohol illegally into the US.

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Bootleggers

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Young women in the Jazz age of the 1920s who were known for a carefree lifestyle which included dancing in illegal nightclubs called speakeasies.

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Flappers

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Illegal bars and clubs right alcohol is served during Prohibition

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Speakeasies

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Famous black jazz musician who sang and played the trumpet

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Louis Armstrong

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Famous American composer who created unique American music

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Aaron Copeland

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Famous black jazz musician who is the composer and pianist

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Duke Ellington

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Famous American writer who captured the flavor of life in the US; wrote the book, ‘The Great Gatsby’

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Famous American composer, son of a Jewish immigrant, whose music was embraced by the public in the 1920s. He composed ‘An American in Paris’

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George Gershwin

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Famous black poet who wrote about segregation and discrimination.

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Langston Hughes

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Famous black artist whose work depicted the migration of blacks from the south to the north

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Jacob Lawrence

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Famous female American artist whose work depicted life in the cities and in the south west

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Georgia O’Keeffe

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American novelist his famous work, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ presents life during the Great Depression

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John Steinbeck

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First to test the airplane successfully in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

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Wright brothers

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