1920's VOCABULARY Flashcards
(24 cards)
flapper
young woman from 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress
19th amendment
allowed women to vote
18th amendment
selling and manufacturing of alcohol is illegal
speakeasy
an illegal liquor store or nightclub
bootleger
one who sells illegal alcohol
prohibition
the manufacturing and selling of alcohol is illegal
al capone
gang who made millions smuggling alcohol into the us
21st amendment
alcohol is legal
consumerism
large scale buying, much of it on credit
mass manufacturing
production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines
Assembly lines
production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines
mass marketing
market or advertise (a product) on a large scale
Harlem Renaissance
period when african american novelists, poets, and artics celebrated their culture
great migration
movement of african americans from the rural south to the industrial north
jazz
american musical forms developed by african americans based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and european- based popular music
back to africa movement
idea that african americans should move back to africa
return to normalcy
campaign theme of warren harding during the election of 1920it reflected the conservative mood of the country
teapot dome scandal
Harding administration scandal: interior secretary leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes
traditionalism
the upholding or maintenance of tradition, especially so as to resist change
red scare
fear that communists were working to destroy the american way of life
palmer raids
series of reids in the earlier 1920s initiated by attorney general A Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists
eugenics
the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable
scopes monkey trial
1925 trial of tennessee schoolteacher for teaching darwin’s theory of evolution
evolution
the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth
