1920s Vocabulary Flashcards
Red Scare
Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
Prohibition
The forbidding by law of the manufacture transport and sale of alcohol
Harlem Renaissance
Period during the 1920s in which African American novelists, poets and artists celebrated their culture
Tin Pan Alley
The center of the music publishing industry in New York City, where jazz and ragtime music originated
Black Tuesday
October 29, 1929 when stock prices fell sharply in the great crash
Langston Hughes
Missouri born, the movements best known poet, many of his poems describe the difficult lives of working class blacks
Quota System
Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the US from specific countries
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Coined the phrase “Jazz Age” to describe the 1920s, wrote paradise lost in the Great Gatsby which reflected the emptiness of New York elite society
Flappers
Young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress, also an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashion and urban attitudes
Return to Normalcy
Warren G Harding’s slogan in the presidential campaign. The US returns to isolation from Europe
Warren G Harding
29th president of the US, known for Teapot Dome Scandal
Scopes Trial
1925 trial of the Tennessee school teacher for teaching Darwins’ theory of evolution
William Jennings Bryan
Opposed the idea of putting the US on a gold standard, which he thought would drive many farmers into debt. Served as Secretary of State under Wilson
Henry Ford
Founder of the Ford Motor Company, created the middle class in American society, achievement revolutionize industrial production
Glenn Curtis
American aviation pioneer and a founder of the US aircraft industry. Made the first officially witnessed flight in North America
