Vocabulary 8.4 Flashcards
What was the period from 1920 to 1933 during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcohol was enforced in the US?
Answer: Prohibition.
What were places where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during Prohibition?
Answer: Speakeasies.
What term describes a person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the US during Prohibition?
Answer: Bootlegger.
What is the Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true?
Answer: Fundamentalism.
Who was the famous American criminal lawyer who defended John Scopes’ right to teach evolution in the Scopes Trial?
Answer: Clarence Darrow.
What was the sensational 1925 court case in which biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution?
Answer: The Scopes Trial.
What term describes the free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s?
Answer: Flappers.
What term refers to a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women?
Answer: Double standard.
Who was the aviator who became famous for his solo transatlantic flight in 1927?
Answer: Charles A. Lindbergh
What was the 20th-century artistic movement that contended traditional art was outdated and no longer meaningful in the new industrialized urban world?
Answer: Modernism.
Who was the American writer, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, known for his novel “Babbitt” which satirized Americans of the 1920s?
Answer: Sinclair Lewis.
Who was the American writer famous for novels and stories such as “The Great Gatsby,” capturing the mood of the 1920s and giving the decade the nickname “The Jazz Age”?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Who was the American writer known for a simplified style of writing in novels like “The Sun Also Rises” and “A Farewell to Arms,” which criticized the glorification of war?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway.
What is the organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality?
Answer: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Who was the NAACP leader and writer, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, known for poetry and the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing”?
Answer: James Weldon Johnson.
