chapter 15 vocab

Question 1

wrote The Great Gatsby

Answer 1

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 2

important playwright

Answer 2

Eugene O’Neill

Question 3

dominated women’s tennis

Answer 3

Helen Wills

Question 4

first woman to swim the English Channel

Answer 4

Gertrude Ederle

Question 5

The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms criticize war

Answer 5

Ernest Hemingway

Question 6

first weekly radio program

Answer 6

Amos n Andy

Question 7

wrote poems celebrating youth

Answer 7

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Question 8

Disney animated classic (first with sound)

Answer 8

Steamboat Willie

Question 9

first “talkie” in motion pictures

Answer 9

The Jazz Singer

Question 10

famous home run slugger

Answer 10

Babe Ruth

Question 11

founded Negro baseball leagues

Answer 11

Rube Foster

Question 12

wrote “Babbit’ to challenge conformity

Answer 12

Sinclair Lewis

Question 13

painted scenes of NYC, southwest art

Answer 13

Georgia O’Keefee

Question 14

pioneer female aviator

Answer 14

Amelia Earhard

Question 15

made first solo flight across the Atlantic

Answer 15

Charles A. Lindbergh

Question 16

sophisticated jazz artist

Answer 16

George Gershwin

Question 17

most famous golfer of his time

Answer 17

Bobby Jones

Question 18

painted industrial, urban, solitary sights

Answer 18

Edward Hopper

Question 19

black nationalist association founded by Marcus Garvey

Answer 19

UNIA

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Harlem Renaissance

Question 21

among the founders of this association was WEB Dubois

Answer 21

NAACP

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Bessie Smith

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Paul Robeson

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Duke Ellington

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Louis Armstrong

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Great Migration

Question 28

founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1914)

Answer 28

Marcus Garvey

Question 29

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

Answer 29

anti-lynching

Question 30

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)

Answer 30

James Weldon Johnson

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Claude McKay

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Langston Hughes

Question 33

popular landmark theater in Harlem

Answer 33

Cotton Club

Question 34

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

Answer 34

WEB DuBois

Question 35

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

Answer 35

mass media

Question 36

an artist or writer living an unconventional lifestyle

Answer 36

Bohemian

Question 37

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

Answer 37

police powers

Question 38

human beings have developed from lower forms of life

Answer 38

evolution

Question 39

belief that God created the world as described in the Bible

Answer 39

creationism

Question 40

a young, dramatic, stylish, and unconventional woman

Answer 40

flapper

Question 41

people who oppose all forms of government

Answer 41

anarchist

Question 42

a secret bar during the prohibition era

Answer 42

speakeasy

Question 43

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

Answer 43

blues

Question 44

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

Answer 44

jazz