Vocab Flashcards
Speakeasies
Underground places where they sold alcohol
Prohibition
Banning of alcoholic beverages
Bootleggers
Smuggled liquor in boots, can from all over
Fundamentalism
Bible
Clarence Darrow
ACLU hired him to defend scopes
Scopes trail
Fight between evolution or bible
Flapper
New girl,
Double standard
Two set of rules or guys and girls
Charles Lindbergh
First non stop flight across Atlantic
George Gershwin
Mergers traditional elements with American jazz
Georgia okeeffe
Captured the grandeur of New York
Sinclair Lewis
First American to win Nobel prize
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Coined “jazz age”
Edna st. Vincent Millay
Wrote poems celebrating life and youth independence and freedom
Ernest Hemingway
Author. Criticized the glorification of war
James Weldon Johnson
Poet and lawyer of NAACP -which fought for right if African Americans
Marcus Garvey
Believed too have two separate society’s for black and white
Hameln Renaissance
Movement celebrating African American culture
Claude McKay
Wrote about African life
Langdon Hughes
Wrote difficulties about living in ghetto
Paul Robeson
Major actor
Louis Armstrong
Saxophone very famous played at cotton club
Duke Ellington
A jazz composer at cotton club
Bessie smith
Most paid blues singer, at cotton club
