Roaring 20s Flashcards
19th amendment
Women have the right to vote
21st amendment
18th amendment repealed meaning alcohol is legal
Langston Hughes
An African American who wrote poems plays and novels
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican born talented speaker who tried to make an independent economy
Red scare
A time of fear of communists
Georgia O’Keefe
Famous artist with unique paintings
Harlem Renaissance
A period of artistic achievement during the 1920s
Flapppers
Young woman who challenged traditional ideas of women hood in the 1920s
Scopes trial
Science teacher tries to teach evolution but is put to trail
Great migration
Large numbers of African Americans from the south move to the north
Kellogg-Briand Pact
In 1928 the US and 14 other nations signed this pact to outlaw war
Anarchy
The opposition of government
Talkies
Motion picture with sound
Herbert Hoover
Republican nominee for 1928
Calvin Coolidge
President of the US from 1924-1928
Lost generation
Writers who criticized the American society in the 1920s
Teapot dome scandal
Secretary Albert fall accepted bribes from private oil companies in exchange for control of oil reserves
Louis Armstrong
A jazz musician in the 1920s who experimented with music
Expatriate
People who leave their home country to live elsewhere
Moving assembly line
This system used conveyer belts to move parts to workers to another
Emergency Quota act
Limited the amount of immigrants that could enter the country
Model T
A car made in 1908 by ford that was affordable and stable
Henry Ford
A car manufacturer in the early 1920s
Prohibition
The government outlawed alcohol
