Vocab Flashcards

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Speakeasies

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Underground places where they sold alcohol

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Prohibition

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Banning of alcoholic beverages

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Bootleggers

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Smuggled liquor in boots, can from all over

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Fundamentalism

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Bible

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Clarence Darrow

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ACLU hired him to defend scopes

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Scopes trail

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Fight between evolution or bible

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Flapper

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New girl,

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Double standard

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Two set of rules or guys and girls

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Charles Lindbergh

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First non stop flight across Atlantic

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George Gershwin

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Mergers traditional elements with American jazz

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Georgia okeeffe

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Captured the grandeur of New York

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Sinclair Lewis

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First American to win Nobel prize

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Coined “jazz age”

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Edna st. Vincent Millay

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Wrote poems celebrating life and youth independence and freedom

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Ernest Hemingway

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Author. Criticized the glorification of war

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James Weldon Johnson

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Poet and lawyer of NAACP -which fought for right if African Americans

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Marcus Garvey

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Believed too have two separate society’s for black and white

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Hameln Renaissance

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Movement celebrating African American culture

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Claude McKay

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Wrote about African life

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Langdon Hughes

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Wrote difficulties about living in ghetto

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Paul Robeson

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Major actor

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Louis Armstrong

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Saxophone very famous played at cotton club

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Duke Ellington

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A jazz composer at cotton club

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Bessie smith

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Most paid blues singer, at cotton club