The 1920s Flashcards
Temperance movement:
Wanted to ban alcohol
18 amendment :
Banned the sale, production, and consumption in the U.S in 1920
Volstead act
Gave the federal government the power to enforce the 18th Amendment
Speakeasies:
Bar selling alcohol illegally
Bootlegging:
Ilegal manufacture and sell of alcohol
Organized crimes:
Gangsters like Al Capone paid Off the cops to allow them to smuggle liquor
21st amendment:
Undid the 18th amendment in 1933
Fundamentalism:
Belief that every word in the Bible is true and holds all the answers
John scopes:
- Taught Darwin’s theory about evolution and was arrested -
found guilty and fined for $100
Clarence Darrow:
- Defense attorney
- represented scopes
William J Bryan:
Religious fundamentalist (prosector)
Henry ford:
Revolutionized the idea of producing cars
Mass production:
- Rapid manufacture by machine of large numbers of identical products
- made goods cheaper
- higher standard of living
Harlem Renaissance:
-An explosion of African American art, literature, and culture in the 1920s
Blues :
- Rural, southern
- sung about all the suffering of being black in America
Jazz:
- Urban, Northern
- allowed black musicians to show off their skills
Louis Armstrong:
Jazz trumper
Duke Ellington
Jazz band leader
Bessie smith:
Blues / soul singer
Langston Hughes:
Author and poet
Zora Neale Hurston:
Female novelist
Warren G. Harding:
- R from Ohio
- won election of 1920
“Return to normalcy”
- No more war
- No more progressivism
- isolationism
- lassiez-faire
Teapot dome scandal :
Harding buddies swindled valuable oil fields and sold them
