Chapter 24 Flashcards
a nineteenth-century term for the illegal transport of alcoholic beverages that became popular
during prohibition
bootlegging
someone who lives outside of their home country
expatriate
a young, modern woman who embraced the new morality and fashions of the Jazz Age
flapper
a small town north of Los Angeles, California, whose reliable sunshine and cheaper production
costs attracted filmmakers and producers starting in the 1910s; by the 1920s, Hollywood was the center of
American movie production with five movie studios dominating the industry
Hollywood
a group of writers who came of age during World War I and expressed their
disillusionment with the era
Lost Generation
the first car produced by the Ford Motor Company that took advantage of the economies of scale
provided by assembly-line production and was therefore affordable to a large segment of the population
Model T
a manufacturing process that allowed workers to stay in one place as the work came
to them
moving assembly line
the rejection of outside influences in favor of local or native customs
nativism
the notion that African Americans had a distinct and separate national heritage that
should inspire pride and a sense of community
Negro nationalism
the more permissive mores adopted my many young people in the 1920s
new morality
the campaign promise made by Warren Harding in the presidential election of 1920
return to normalcy
the 1925 trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution in a public school; the trial
highlighted the conflict between rural traditionalists and modern urbanites
Scopes Monkey Trial
unlike the secret terror group of the Reconstruction Era was a nationwide movement that expressed racism, nativism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism
Second Ku Klux Klan
the bribery scandal involving Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in 1923
Teapot Dome scandal
