Mini Jazz Age Test 2 : 12/10/14 Flashcards
Having won the right to vote in _____, women sought to break free from traditional roles.
1920
______, ______, and ______ became linked to ___________ _______.
Romance, pleasure, friendship, successful marriages
______ _____’s theories also affected people’s ideas about relationships, especially his theories about human sexuality.
Sigmund Freud
Some women known as _______, smoked cigarettes, drank prohibited liquor, and wore makeup and sleeveless dresses with short skirts
Flappers
______ _____’s research led to a dramatic drop in the death rates of ________.
Florence Sabin, tuberculosis
_________ ______ believed that families could improve their standard of living by limiting the number of children they had.
Margaret Sanger
______ founded the _______ _____ ______ _____ in 1921 to promote knowledge about birth control.
Sanger, American Birth Control League
_____ _____ increased dramatically, particularly in the ______ _____.
Birth control, middle class
Many people joined a religious movement known as ___________.
Fundamentalism
_____________ believed that the Bible was literally true and without error.
Fundamentalists
__________ rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of ______.
Fundamentalists, evolution
______ is 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 described it.
Creationism
The __________ ______ _______ _______ ( ? ) advertised for a teacher willing to be arrested for teaching evolution.
American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU )
_____ __ ______, a biology teacher in _____, _________ volunteered
John T. Scopes, Dayton, Tennessee
At the trial, _____ _______ ____, a three time presidential candidate, was the prosecutor representing the creationists.
William Jennings Bryan
_______ _____, one of the country’s most celebrated trial lawyers, defended Scopes.
Clarence Darrow
The ____ amendment went into effect in January 1920 which prohibited the manufacture and/or sale of alcohol.
18th
The ________ ____ gave the U.S. Treasury Department the power to enforce Prohibition.
Volstead Act
In the 1920s, __________ ________ agents made more than ____ arrests, but Americans still ignored the law.
Treasury Departments, 540k
People would flock to ________.
Speakeasies
________ were a where alcoholic beverages were sold illegally.
Speakeasies
Liquor also was readily available in rural areas through _________ - the illegal production and distribution of alcohol.
Bootlegging
__ _____, 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 ___ amendment, ratified in 1933, repealed the 18th amendment,
21st
Many artists, writers, and intellectuals flocked to ________ _______ _____ in _____’s ____ _____.
Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, Chicago’s South Side
Among the great writers of the time was ______ ________, who wrote moving novels about war and its aftermath, such as __ ______ __ ___.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
__ ____ ________criticized society’s superficiality in ___ _____ _______.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
In 1927 the golden age of Hollywood began with the first “talking” picture, ___ ____ ______.
The Jazz Singer
Famous songwriter _______ ________ worked in NYC’s ___ ____ _____, where composers wrote popular music.
Irving Berlin, Tin Pan Alley
_____’s famous song include “____ __ ___ ____” and “______ ______.”
Berlin, Puttin’ on the Ritz, White Christmas
The most popular comedy of the time was ____ __ ____, a radio show where the troubles of two African American characters captured the nation’s attention.
Amos ‘n’ Andy
Baseball star _____ _____ was a national hero, even though he was a drunk.
Babe Ruth
Fans also idolized boxer ____ ________, who was world heavyweight champion from 1919- 1926, when he lost the title to ____ ______.
Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney
College football’s most famous player of the 1920s was ___ _____ of the University of ______ and was known as the “________ ______.”
Red Grange, Illinois, Galloping Ghost
_____ ______, was the best golfer of the decade.
Bobby Jones
Nightclubs and music filled northern cities, particularly the ____ neighborhood of ______.
NYC, Harlem
Artistic development, racial pride, and political organization combined in a flower of African American arts known as the _______ __________.
Harlem Renaissance
______ ______was the first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance.
Claude McKay
In 1922 _____’s poetry collection, _____ _____, expressed a proud defiance and bitter contempt of racism.
McKay, Harlem Shadows
______ ______ was a prolific, original, and versatile writer. He became a leading voice of the African American experience in America.
Langston Hughes
New Orleans native _____ _______ moved to Chicago in 1922.
Louis Armstrong
There _______ introduced an early form of _____ which was an American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and that used syncopated rhythms and improvisation.
Armstrong, jazz
Composer, painter, and bandleader ______ “____” __________ got his start at the _____ ____, the most famous nightclub in Harlem.
Edward “Duke” Ellington, Cotton Club
______ _____ symbolized soul and became known as the ______ ___ ____ _____.
Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues
______ sang of unfulfilled ____, ______, and ________- classic themes of the blues.
Smith, love, poverty, oppression
_____ was a style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its ________ sound.
Blues, melancholy
In 1928 African American voters in Chicago helped elect ______ _________ as the first African American representative in Congress from a ________ state.
Oscar DePriest, Northern
A dynamic leader from ______, ______ ______ captured the imagination of millions of African Americans with his “______ __________”.
Jamaica, Marcus Garvey, Negro Nationalism
Garvey founded the ________ ______ _______ _______ ( ? ), aimed at promoting black pride and unity.
Universal Negro Improvement Association ( UNIA )
