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20 Cards in this Set
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Flapper |
Women in the 1920's who bobbed their hair, wore short skirts, and defied the morals and restrictions of the earlier generations. |
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Demographics |
Statistics that describe a population in terms of personal characteristics, such as age, gender, income, ethnicity, or education. |
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Barrio |
A Spanish-speaking neighborhood in a town or city. |
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Mass Media |
Any form of communication, such as newspapers and radio, that reach millions of people. |
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Kaleidoscope |
The term used to describe the many differences of people when they are brought together in a melting pot country. |
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Improvisations |
When musicians make up music as they are playing it instead of using a printed score. |
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Garvey Movement |
Started by Marcus Garvey, it encouraged African Americans to start their own all black businesses, and Organizations or to buy shares in Black Corporations. He also thought that African Americans should return to Africa and have pride in their racial identity. |
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Fundamentalism |
The Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of the Bible and Christianity. Later the term would be used to describe any Religion that holds strictly to its moral codes. |
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Bootleggers |
People who produced, smuggled, or sold alcoholic beverages illegally during the era of Prohibition. |
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Jeannette Rankin |
She was the first woman ever to be elected to Congress. She was Montana's elected official to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916.
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Charles Lindberg |
The United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo, nonstop flight, across the Atlantic Ocean in his plane "Spirit of St. Louis". |
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Babe Ruth |
The greatest baseball player of the 1920's. He set a record for hitting 60 home runs in one season. |
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Speakeasies |
Bars that operated illegally during Prohibition. |
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Radio |
A form of mass media that became popular, and profitable during the 1920's. Now more people had access to news and popular music. |
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Jazz Age |
Name for the 1920s, because of the popularity of jazz music, a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime. |
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Volstead Act |
This was a system passed by Congress, in 1919, which was meant to make it easier to enforce the 18th amendment (Prohibition). |
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Lost Generation |
A group of American writers that rebelled against America's values and culture. Many moved to cultural centers such as London, and Paris in search of literary freedom. |
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Al Capone |
A leader of organized crime in Chicago in the late 1920s, involved in gambling, the illegal sale of alcohol, and prostitution. He was sent to prison in the 1930s for income tax evasion. |
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Scopes Trial |
The 1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools. It started when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school. |
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Harlem Renaissance |
A period of artistic development of African American writers, artists, actors, and musicians that started in Harlem, New York, in the 1920s. |
