Chapter 28 Flashcards
African American musicians combine western harmonies with African rhythms to create
Jazz
While Europe recovered from War the ____________ experienced boom time
United States
Played the trumpet
Louis Armstrong
Who plated the piano
Duke Ellington
Which was a liberal young women-first originated in America but soon Europeans adopted the style
Flapper
Had become common in middle class homes. Example, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and canned foods
Labor-saving
Is the ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
Prohibition Movement
Illegal bars (called this because when speaking about them you spoke quietly or easily)
Speakeasies
Swept across rural areas of the United States. They believed in traditional christian ideas about Jesus. They also believed that all the events in the bible were literally true
Fundamentalist movement
A biology teacher that was tried for teaching evolution to his classroom, his action broke a law that barred any teaching that went against the bible’s story of creation. Was found guilty in the “Scopes Trail”
John T. Scopes
Exposed the grim horrors of modern warfare
All Quiet on the Western Front
Consisted of African American writers and artists who expressed their pride in their unique culture
Harlem Renaissance
Wrote “Eyes Were Watching God”
Zora Neale
Found that atoms of certain elements
Marie Curie
Introduced theories of relativity. Argued that measurement of space and time are not absolute, but are determined by the relative position of the observer
Albert Einstein
Was that the universe was like a machine operating according to absolute laws
Newtonian Science
The splitting of atoms
Fission
Discovered a type of non toxic acid mold that kills bacteria
Alexander Flemining
Non toxic mold that kills bacteria
Penicillin
Which are used all over the world to treat infections
Antibiotics
Challenged faith in reason
Sigmund Freud
Personality theory
Psychoanalysis
is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends
Ids
Plays the critical and moralizing role
Superego