Chapter 8 Jazz Age Flashcards

(14 cards)

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bootlegging

A

a nineteenth-century term for the illegal transport of alcoholic beverages that became popular during prohibition

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expatriate

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someone who lives outside of their home country

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3
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flapper

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a young, modern woman who embraced the new morality and fashions of the Jazz Age

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4
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Hollywood

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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

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5
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Lost Generation

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a group of writers who came of age during World War I and expressed their disillusionment with the era

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Model T

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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

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moving assembly line

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a manufacturing process that allowed workers to stay in one place as the work came to them

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8
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nativism

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the rejection of outside influences in favor of local or native customs

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9
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Negro nationalism

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the notion that African Americans had a distinct and separate national heritage that should inspire pride and a sense of community

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10
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new morality

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the more permissive mores adopted my many young people in the 1920s

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11
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return to normalcy

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the campaign promise made by Warren Harding in the presidential election of 1920

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12
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Scopes Monkey Trial

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the 1925 trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution in a public school; the trial highlighted the conflict between rural traditionalists and modern urbanites

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13
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Second Ku Klux Klan

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unlike the secret terror group of the Reconstruction Era, the Second Ku Klux Klan was a nationwide movement that expressed racism, nativism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism

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14
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Teapot Dome scandal

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the bribery scandal involving Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in 1923

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