Ch 21 Flashcards
What was city life like?
Fast paced, competitive, and not leisurely
What activities were tolerated in cities?
Drinking, gambling, and casual dating
What was rural life like?
Slow, leisurely, and traditional
This is the banning if the manufacture, sale; and position of alcohol
Prohibition 1920-1933
What brought on prohibition?
Drinking caused crime, abuse, and accidents on the job
This established a prohibition bureau
Volstead act
This is a place where alcohol was sold during prohibition
Speakeasies
What did a speakeasy usually require?
A password
This is a person that smuggled alcohol from Canada, Cuba, or the West Indies
Bootleggers
Who was al Capone?
A Chicago gangster that built a bootlegging empire
This is the belief that all stories and details in the bible are true
Fundamentalism
This is a case where a biology teacher was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed teaching evolution
Scopes Trial
This man was the teacher in the scopes trial
John T Scopes
This man was the famous trial lawyer hired by the ACLU to defend scopes
Clarence Darrow
What did William Jennings Bryan do for the scopes trial?
He was a special prosecutor
What was the outcome of the scopes trial?
Scopes was found guilty and teaching evolution remained outlawed
What did women do in the 20’s in culture?
They sought greater independence and rejected past values
This is a free thinking young woman who embraced new fashions and urban attitudes of the 20s
Flapper
What did woman do that showed increased equality?
They smoked and drank in public and talked openly about sex
This is a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men then women
Double standard
With rising equality what did women focus time on?
Their families
What did marriage become focused on?
Love and companionship
Where did children spend time?
Schools and organized after school activities-not at factories
Why did school enrollment increase?
Prosperous times an higher standards for industrial jobs
This was the first person to have a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh
This person was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
This man was a music composer that merged traditional elements with jazz
George Gershwin
This lady was a painter hat captures the grandeur of NYC
Georgia O’Keefe
This person was the first American to receive a Nobel prize in literature
Sinclair Lewis
This man coined the “jazz age” to describe the 20s
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This was an author wounded in WWI that criticized war glorification
Ernest Hemingway
This man was the leader of the NAACP who fought for protective legislation
James Weldon Johnson
This man founded the universal negro improvement association
Marcus Garvey
What is Garvey encourage?
A return to Africa and a rise up against colonial oppression there
This was a literary and artistic movement t celebrating black culture
Harlem renaissance
This man was a writer who described the difficulties of working class blacks
Langston Hughes
This man was a famous black trumpet player
Louis Armstrong
This man was a jazz pianist and famous composer
Duke Ellington
