Flashcards in Mini Jazz Age Test 2 : 12/10/14 Deck (51)
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Having won the right to vote in _____, women sought to break free from traditional roles.
1920
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______, ______, and ______ became linked to ___________ _______.
Romance, pleasure, friendship, successful marriages
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______ _____'s theories also affected people's ideas about relationships, especially his theories about human sexuality.
Sigmund Freud
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Some women known as _______, smoked cigarettes, drank prohibited liquor, and wore makeup and sleeveless dresses with short skirts
Flappers
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______ _____'s research led to a dramatic drop in the death rates of ________.
Florence Sabin, tuberculosis
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_________ ______ believed that families could improve their standard of living by limiting the number of children they had.
Margaret Sanger
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______ founded the _______ _____ ______ _____ in 1921 to promote knowledge about birth control.
Sanger, American Birth Control League
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_____ _____ increased dramatically, particularly in the ______ _____.
Birth control, middle class
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Many people joined a religious movement known as ___________.
Fundamentalism
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_____________ believed that the Bible was literally true and without error.
Fundamentalists
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__________ rejected Charles Darwin's theory of ______.
Fundamentalists, evolution
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______ is the scientific theory that humans and other forms of life have evolved over time.
Evolution
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Fundamentalists would embrace _______.
Creationism
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_________ is the belief that God created the world and everything in it, usually in the way the Bible described it.
Creationism
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The __________ ______ _______ _______ ( ? ) advertised for a teacher willing to be arrested for teaching evolution.
American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU )
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_____ __ ______, a biology teacher in _____, _________ volunteered
John T. Scopes, Dayton, Tennessee
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At the trial, _____ _______ ____, a three time presidential candidate, was the prosecutor representing the creationists.
William Jennings Bryan
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_______ _____, one of the country's most celebrated trial lawyers, defended Scopes.
Clarence Darrow
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The ____ amendment went into effect in January 1920 which prohibited the manufacture and/or sale of alcohol.
18th
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The ________ ____ gave the U.S. Treasury Department the power to enforce Prohibition.
Volstead Act
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In the 1920s, __________ ________ agents made more than ____ arrests, but Americans still ignored the law.
Treasury Departments, 540k
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People would flock to ________.
Speakeasies
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________ were a where alcoholic beverages were sold illegally.
Speakeasies
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Liquor also was readily available in rural areas through _________ - the illegal production and distribution of alcohol.
Bootlegging
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__ _____, one of the most successful and well-known gangsters of the era, had many police officers, judges, and other officials on his payroll.
Al Capone
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The ___ amendment, ratified in 1933, repealed the 18th amendment,
21st
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Many artists, writers, and intellectuals flocked to ________ _______ _____ in _____'s ____ _____.
Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, Chicago’s South Side
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Among the great writers of the time was ______ ________, who wrote moving novels about war and its aftermath, such as __ ______ __ ___.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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__ ____ ________criticized society’s superficiality in ___ _____ _______.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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