Ch. 20: The Roaring Twenties

Flapper

Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion

Fundamentalism

Conservative beliefs in the Bible and that it should be literally believed and applied

Evolution

Change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern organisms have descended from other organisms.

Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan

Defense and Prosecuting Attornies in Scopes Trial

Bootlegger

Smugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era

Speakeasy

Illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition

Prohibition

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Great Migration

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.

Harlem Renaissance

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Langston Hughes

This man was well known for making the Harlem Renaissance famous because of his poems.

jazz

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s

Louis Armstrong

Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians.

Charlie Chaplin

popular silent film star

Charles Lindbergh

United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)

transatlantic

across the Atlantic Ocean

Amelia Earhart

First female pilot to cross the Atlantic. She disappeared while trying to fly around the world.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

wrote The Great Gatsby

Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey

1920's sports heros, Ruth set the baseball record of 60 home runs in one season and Dempsey was the heavyweight boxing champion.

Ernest Hemingway

writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms