chapter 15 vocab Flashcards

1
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wrote The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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2
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important playwright

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Eugene O’Neill

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3
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dominated women’s tennis

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Helen Wills

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4
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first woman to swim the English Channel

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Gertrude Ederle

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5
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The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms criticize war

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Ernest Hemingway

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6
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first weekly radio program

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Amos n Andy

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7
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wrote poems celebrating youth

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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8
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Disney animated classic (first with sound)

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Steamboat Willie

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9
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first “talkie” in motion pictures

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The Jazz Singer

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10
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famous home run slugger

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Babe Ruth

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11
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founded Negro baseball leagues

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Rube Foster

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12
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wrote “Babbit’ to challenge conformity

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Sinclair Lewis

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13
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painted scenes of NYC, southwest art

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Georgia O’Keefee

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14
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pioneer female aviator

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Amelia Earhard

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15
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made first solo flight across the Atlantic

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Charles A. Lindbergh

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16
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sophisticated jazz artist

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George Gershwin

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17
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most famous golfer of his time

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Bobby Jones

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18
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painted industrial, urban, solitary sights

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Edward Hopper

19
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black nationalist association founded by Marcus Garvey

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UNIA

20
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this was a literary and artistic movement that celebrated African American culture

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Harlem Renaissance

21
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among the founders of this association was WEB Dubois

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NAACP

22
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in 1927, this singer became the highest paid black artist in the world

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Bessie Smith

23
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this major dramatic actor’s performance in Othello was widely acclaimed

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Paul Robeson

24
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in many of her novels, books of folklore, poetry, and short stories, this writer portrayed the lives of poor, unschooled Southern African Americans

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Zora Neale Hurston

25
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this jazz pianist and composer was fame as one of America’s greatest composers. He wrote such pieces as Mood Indigo and Sophisticated Lady

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Duke Ellington

26
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this trumpet player’s astounding sense of rhythm and ability to improvise has led many to consider him the single most important and influential musician in the history of jazz

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Louis Armstrong

27
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the movement of million of African Americans out of the South to the North in search of jobs

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Great Migration

28
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founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1914)

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Marcus Garvey

29
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goal of the NAACP for the federal government to make laws against

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anti-lynching

30
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executive secretary of the NAACP who worked to get Congress to pass anti-lynching legislation, also wrote “the Black National Anthem” (Lift Every Voice and Sing)

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James Weldon Johnson

31
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militant poet and novelist whose militant verses encouraged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination

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Claude McKay

32
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best known poet of the Harlem Renaissance, composed “I, Too”

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Langston Hughes

33
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popular landmark theater in Harlem

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Cotton Club

34
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co-founder of the NAACP, edited “The Crisis”

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WEB DuBois

35
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this includes radio, movies, and newspapers designed for a large audience

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mass media

36
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an artist or writer living an unconventional lifestyle

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Bohemian

37
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a government’s power to control people and property in the interest of safety

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police powers

38
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human beings have developed from lower forms of life

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evolution

39
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belief that God created the world as described in the Bible

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creationism

40
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a young, dramatic, stylish, and unconventional woman

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flapper

41
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people who oppose all forms of government

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anarchist

42
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a secret bar during the prohibition era

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speakeasy

43
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a soulful style of music that developed out of African American spiritual

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blues

44
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music born from the blues that defined the decade of the 1920’s

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jazz