Chapter 1- Vocabulary words Flashcards
(24 cards)
19th amendment
Right for citizens to vote and shall not be denied because of gender
21st amendment
Ended prohibition
Langston Hughes
Produced poems, plays, and novels about African American life
Marcus Garvey
Encouraged black people around the world to express pride in their culture
Red scare
A time of fear of Communists, or Reds
Georgia O’ Keefe
Was well know for her detailed paintings of flowers and of the Southwest
Harlem Renaissance
A period of African American artistic accomplishment
Flapper
Where we on cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses
Scopes trial
A science teacher that got arrested for teaching the evolution know as the Scopes Trial
Great Migration
African Americans leaving the South to go to jobs in northern factories
Kellogg-Brian’s Act
An agreement that outlawed the war
Anarchy
People apposed to organized government
Talkies
Motion picture with sound
Hoover
Selected for the oarty, or was the nominee
Coolidge
Was the governor of Massachusetts
Lost Generation
Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s
Teapot Dome Scandal
Involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall
Louis Armstrong
Begins recording his band, Hot Five
Expatriate
People who leave their own home to live elsewhere
Moving assembly line
Used conveyor belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from on group of workers to the next
Emergency Quota Act
It limited the total number of immigrants allowed to the country
Model T
A sturdy reliable car
Henry Ford
An inventor and business leader
Prohibition
Liquor like substances that is illegal
