MIni Jazz Age Flashcards
Having the right to vote in 1920 women sought to break free from_________-
Traditional roles
____________,_________,and______________ became linked to successful marriages.
- Romance
- pleasure
- freindship
_______________ theories also affected people’s ideas about relationships expecialy his theories about human sexuality.
Sigmund Freud
Some women known as flappers_____1____,___2________,___3________,__4__________
- smoked cigarettes
- drank prohibited liquor
- wore makeup
- and sleeveless dresses with short skirts
________________ research led to a dramatic drop in the death rates of TB
Florence Sabin
________________ believed that families could improve their standard of living by limmiting the number of children they had.
Margret Sanger
Margret Sanger founded the _________________ in 1921 to promote knowledge about birth control.
American Birth Control League
Birth control increased dramatically particularly in the _________
middle class
Many people joined a religious movement known as _____________
Fundamentalism
Fundamentalist believed the Bible was ___1____and they rejected _____2____theory of evolution.
- literally true and without error
2. Charels Darwin’s
_________the scientific theory that humans and other forms of life have evolved over time.
Evolution
Fundamentalists would embrace_________
creationism
____________is the belief that God created the world and everything in it usually in the way the bible descibed it.
creationism
________________advertised for a teacher willing to be arresd for teaching evolution
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
____________ a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, volunteered.
John T Scopes
At the trial_____________- a three time presidential candidate was the prosecutor representing the creationist.
William Jennings Bryan
___________ one of the country’s most celebrated trial Lawyers defended Scopes
Clarence Darrow
The _______went into affect in January 1920 which prohibited the manufacture and or sale of alcohol
18th amendment
The _____- gave the U.S. Treasury Department the power to enforce Prohibition.
Volstead Act
In the 1920s ______________agents made more that 540k arrest but Americans still ignored the law
Treasury Department
People would flock to _______ which were places where alcohol beverages are sold illegally
speakeasies
_________was readily availible in rural areas through bootlegging the illegal production and distribution of alcohol
Liquor
______________ one of the most successful and well known gangsters of the era had many police officers judges and other officials on his payroll.
Al Capone
The _______ratified in 1933 repealed the 18th amendment.
21st amendment
Many artist writers and intellectuals flocked to Manhattan’s _______________ in the Chicago ‘s South Side.
Greenwich Village
Among the great writers of the time was ________ who wrote novels about war and its aftermath such as A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
______criticized society’s superficiality in the Great Gatsby
F.Scott. Fitzgerald
IN 1927 the golden age of hollywood began with the first talking picture the ___________
Jazz Singer
Famous songwriter ___________ worked in NYC’s Tin Pan Alley where composers wrote popular music
Irving Berlin
Berlin’s famous songs included ____1____ and ____2___
- Putin on the Ritz
2. White Christmas
The most popular comedy of the time was ___________- a radio show where the trouble of two african american characters capture the nations attention
Amos and Andy
Baseball stared ____________ was a national hero even though he was a drunk
Babe Ruth
Fans also idolized boxer ____1___________ who was world heavyweight champion from 1919-1926 when he lost his title to _______2________
- Jack Dempsey
2. Gene Turiney
College footballs most famous player of the 1920s was _________ of the university of Illonios and was known as the Galloping Ghost
Red Grage
________was the best golfer of the decade
Bobby Jones
Night clubes and music filled the northern cities particually the NYC neighborhood of __________
Harlem
Artistic development racial pride and political organization combined in a flower of african american arts knowns as the ______________
Harlem Renassance
________ was the first important writer of the Harlem Renassance
Claude Mckay
In 1922 Mckay’s poetry collection ___________ expressed a pruod difiance and biter contempt of racism`
Harlem Shadows
_______________was a protific original versatile writer
Langston Hughes
________________ became a leading voice of the African American experience in America
Langston Hughes
New Orleans native _________________ moved to Chicago in 1922.
Louis Armstrog
_______ was an American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and that used syncopated rhythms and improvisation.
jazz
Composer, pianist, and bandleader _______________ got his start at the Cotton Club the most famous nightclub in Harlem.
Edward Duke Ellington
______________ symbolized soul and became known as the Empress of the Blues.
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith sang of ____________,_____________, and __________ classic themes of the blues.
unfulfilled love poverty and oppression
_____________ was a style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound.
blues
In 1928 African American voters in Chicago helped elect ____________ as the first African American representative in Congress from a Northern State.
Oscar DePriest
A dynamic leader from Jamaica _________ captured the imagination of millions of African Americans with his Negro Nationalism
Marcus Garvey
Garey founded the ______________________ aimed at promoting black pride and unity.
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
