Vocab Roaring 20s Flashcards
Georgia O’ Keffe
She was a artist that lived most of her life in New Mexico
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was when African American came into Harlem and started a period of artistic accomplishment
Flapper
Flappers are young women who cut their hair short and wore makeup and challenged ideas of how women were supposed to be
Expatriate
People who leave their home country to live elsewhere
Moving assembly line
This system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another
Red scare
A time of fear of communists or reds
Marcus Garvey
He encouraged black people around the world to express their pride in their culture
21 amendment
It had repealed the 18th amendment
19 amendment
Had voting rights and enforcement on it voting rights mean they could vote if they were a man or a women and enforcement meant congress could have the power to enforce articles
Langston Hughes
Was a Harlem Renaissance writer and wrote poems, plays and novels about African American life
Lost generation
Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s thus became known as the lost generation
Calvin Coolidge
He was the 30th president and he was from Vermont
Teapot dome scandal
What came to be known as the teapot dome scandal involved the interior secretary Albert fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies . In exchange fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in elk hills, California, and teapot dome
Louis Armstrong
He sang songs and was basically in his own band
Hoover
Herbert Hoover was a president and decided not to run for the next election in 1928, he was also the president during the great depression and the stock market crash
Emergency quota act
The act limited the amount of immigrants allowed in the country
Model T
Henry Ford is the inventor of the model T
Kellog-Briand pact
An agreement that outlawed war from the u.s. and 14 other countries
Scopes trial
In may 25th Tennessee high school teacher was put on trial for teaching things that involved politically reasons
Great migration
During World War One large numbers of Americans began leaving for the south for factory work
Anarchy
Anarchy are people who opposed to the government
Talkies
This was a motion picture with sound
Expatriate
People who leave their home country to live elsewhere
Henry Ford
A inventor and business leader from Detroit
Jazz age
An explosion of jazz
Prohibition
The law that restricted the sale of alcohol
