Vocab Roaring Twenties Flashcards
Georgia O’Keeffe
was well known for her detailed paintings of flowers of the Southwest
Harlem Renaissance
A period of African American artistic accomplishment
Flapper
Young women cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave
Scopes trial
In may 1925 a Dayton, Tennessee, high school science teacher named john t. Scopes became known as the scopes trial
Great migration
During WWI large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories
Kellog Briand act
In 1928 this pact was signed to outlaw war
Anarchy
People opposed to organized government
Talkies
Motion picture with sound
Hoover
He was a nominee for president
Coolidge
He was picked for warren hardings running mate
Lost generation
Writers who criticized American society
Teapot dome scandal
Secretary of the interior Albert fall who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies
Louis Armstrong
he was a famous jazz player
Expatriate
People who leave their home country to live elsewhere
Moving assembly line
This system used conveyor belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another
