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25 Cards in this Set
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prohibition |
the manufacture sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited |
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speakeasies |
hidden saloons and nightclubs underground |
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fundamentalism |
nonsymbolic interpretation of the bible |
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clarence darrow |
most famous trial lawyer of the day |
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scopes trial |
was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religio in public schools and in american society |
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flapper |
an emancipated young woman who embraced the ew fashions and urban attitudes of the day |
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double standard |
a set of principles granting greater secual freedom to men than women |
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Charles A. Lindebergh |
made the first nonstop solo fligh across the atlantic |
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george gershwin |
a jewisj composer who merged popular concert music with american jazz |
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georgia okeefe |
produced intensely colored canvases that captured the granderu of new york |
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f. scott fitzgerald |
coined the term jazz age to describe the 1920s |
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edna st. vincent millay |
wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints |
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ernest hemingway |
best known expatriate author |
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zora neale hurston |
a girl in eatonville florida in the early 1900s she loved to read adventrue storie and myths. she yearned for a wider world |
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james weldon johnson |
poet, lawyer and naacp executive secretary |
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marcus garvey |
an immigrant from jamaica that believed african americans should build a separate society |
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harlem renaissance |
a literary and artistic movement celebrating african americanc culture |
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claude ckay |
a novelist poet and jamaican immigrant |
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langston hughes |
the movements best known poet |
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paul robeson |
the son of a one time slve became a major dramatic actor |
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louis armstrong |
joined olivers group which becae known as the creole jazz band |
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edward kennedy duke ellington |
a jazz pianist and composer led ten piece orchestra at the cotton club |
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bessie smith |
a female blues singer that was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade. |
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bootleggers |
named for a smugglers practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots who smuggled it in from canada, cuba and the west indies |
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sinclair lewis |
the first american to win a nobel prize in literature |
