us history Flashcards
flappers
young women who rebelled, they had bobs and wore short skirts
great migration
African Americans moving from the south to the north for better living between 1916s-1970s
Ku Klux Klan
an American protester who led christian extremist, white supremacist ,fair right hate group during reconstruction.
communism
a type of government / economic system that was created for wealth
Red scare
1919-1920 people fearing immigrants who embraced communist, socialist, and society
Palmer Raids
multiple raids and people getting arrested for being a communist, anarchist or a radicalist and getting deported
Anarchism
a political philosophy movement that wants to abolish the institutions of coercion and hierarchy
Sacco and Vanzetti
two Italian anarchists that got sentenced to death for fist degree murder and robbery which they didn’t commit
Marcus Garvey
An African American activist and leader of the PanAfricanism movement , he wanted Africans to be proud of their heritage
Harlem Renaissance
African Americans showing their culture, music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics/scholarships
Jazz
Type of music created by the African-Americans in New Orleans Louisiana
Langston Hughes
An African-American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, she is a big figure in the Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong
An African American who helped make jazz spread across the world, he played the trumpet, and was the vocalist and composer
The jazz singer
An American musical that was the very first full-length movie with synchronized dialogue released in 1927
18th Amendment
Banned the transportation of alcohol, the production, sale, it gave congress and power to the states to enforce the amendment through legislation
AI Capone
An American gangster who was head of a crime organization that ran gambling, prositution and bootlegging rackets
Speakeasies
An underground bar where alcoholic drinks were illegally sold
Bootlegging
illegally transporting alchohol/sales during the prohibition period
19th Amendment
granted women the right to vote
Babe Ruth
world famous baseball player, changed baseball with his home-run hitting
NAACP
civil rights organization fighting for the rights for Black people
Charles Lindbergh
first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean
Buying on credit
buying items/ services and promising to pay later/installment buying
The scopes trail
illegal to teach of evolution in public schools
Lost Generation
Generations of American writers who worked Europe during WWI and the Great Depression seeing the horrors and struggling to move on
