Chapter 23 Flashcards
July 10, 1925, the ______ trial began in Dayton, Tennessee. High school teacher John Thomas ____ was charged with violating Tennessee’s law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man.
The Scopes Trial
an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
Charlie Chaplin
an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to “talkies” after 1927. (“It Girl”)
Clara Bow
an Italian actor in America who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik.
Rudolph Valentino
It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era.
The Jazz Singer
a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
The Age of the Flapper
an American aviation pioneer and author. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment.
Amelia Earhart
an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France.
Charles Lindbergh
nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz
Louis Armstrong
an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.
Duke Ellington
an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Jelly Roll” Morton
an American blues singer. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.
Bessie Smith
an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud
an American fiction writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Wrote “The Great Gatsby”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the “New Negro Movement”, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
Harlem Renaissance