7.1 Flashcards
Evolution
Made people question the bible
Higher Criticism
bible should be studied as any other work of literature in history
Fundamentalism
belief that the bible is true, contains no errors
Consumerism
people who spend a lot of money on goods and services
Scopes Trial
the debate b/w fundamentalism and scientific theory
Birth of a nation
A silent film that made black people look bad
Flappers
fun loving and rebellious women
Lost Generation
group of writers, felt lost in society of greed and moral corruption
Hughes
best known poet and wrote about the lives of black heritage ( working class blacks)
Hurston
African american author, wrote several books about the lives of blacks
Garvey
encouraged African Americans to go “back to Africa” to find justice and equality
Louie Armstrong
What a wonderful life
Billie Holiday
God bless the child
Duke Ellington and his orchestra
lazy rhapsody
Ella Fitzgerald and Louie armstrong
they cant take that away from me
Red Scare
the fear that such a revolution might occur in the us
Communism
gov owns all property and individual rights mean little compared to the welfare of the state
Palmer raiders
caused many innocent but suspected communist and other ‘subversives” were arrested and jailed
anarchists
people who wanted to bring down any form of gov
Subversives
those believed to post a threat to the us gov
nativism
opposed immigration
kkk
targeted Jews, Catholics, immigrants and feared communism
quotas
limitations on number of immigrants that could enter the us from diff parts of the world
Prohibition
18th admendent