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What was the 20th-century artistic movement that contended traditional art was outdated and no longer meaningful in the new industrialized urban world?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.
Who was the African American leader who promoted self-reliance for African Americans and started the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), urging African Americans to take pride in their heritage?
Answer: Marcus Garvey.
What was the flowering of African American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community of New York City?
Answer: The Harlem Renaissance.
Who was the African American writer who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance, expressing the pain of life in black ghettos and urging Americans to resist discrimination?
Answer: Claude McKay.
Who was the African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music, known for his impact on the Harlem Renaissance?
Answer: Langston Hughes.
Who was the African American actor and singer who promoted African American rights and left-wing causes?
Answer: Paul Robeson.
Who was the leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance, a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians?
Answer: Louis Armstrong.
Who was the African American composer and jazz musician, one of the key figures in the Harlem Renaissance, whose orchestra was popular nationwide?
Answer: Duke Ellington.
Who was the African American blues singer who played an important part in the Harlem Renaissance?
Answer: Bessie Smith.
