Chapter 21 Flashcards
Prohibition
- era during which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol were legally prohibited
- Eighteenth Amendment
Volstead Act
established a Prohibition Bureau in the Treasury Department in 1919
speakeasies
hidden saloons and nightclubs where one could obtain liquor illegally
bootleggers
- smuggled liquor from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies
- famous bootlegger: Al Capone
fundamentalism
- were skeptical of scientific knowledge
- argued that all important knowledge could be found in the Bible
Clarence Darrow
lawyer who defended Scopes
Scopes Trial
- fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society
- Scopes was a biology teacher who taught evolution, even though it was banned
flapper
a emancipated young woman who dressed in short skirts, smoked cigarettes, and drank in public (more assertive)
double standard
set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women
Charles A. Lindbergh
- made the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight
- was a hero
George Gershwin
- composer
- merged traditional elements with American jazz, creating a new sound that was American
Georgia O’Keeffe
produced intensely colored canvases that portrayed New York
Sinclair Lewis
- first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature
- ridiculed Americans for their conformity and materialism
Edward Hopper
painted the loneliness of American life
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- coined the term “Jazz age” to describe the 1920s
- revealed the negative side of the period’s freedom
Edna St. Vincent Millay
wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom
Willa Cather
celebrated the simple lives of people such as immigrant farmers in her works
Edith Wharton
wrote about the clash between traditional and modern values
Ernest Hemmingway and John Dos Passos
- denounced war in their works
