Mr Trang C7 Vocab

Anarchist

The Sacco and Vanzetti case created a furor, as newspapers around the country revealed that the two immigrants were _____, or people who oppose all forms of government

Eugenics

A pseudo-science, or false science, that deals with improving hereditary traits

Source

Even big business, which previously favored unrestricted immigration as a _____ of cheap labor, now feared the new immigrants as radicals

Aspect

Challenging traditional ways of seeing and thinking the new morality glorified youth and personal freedom and influenced various _____ of American society

Flapper

Though hardly typical of American women at the time, the ____ - a young, dramatic, stylish, and unconventional woman - personified women’s changing behavior in the 1920s.

Ethic

To these Americans, the modern consumer culture, relaxed _____, and growing urbanism symbolized the nation’s moral decline

Evolution

 In particular, Fundamentalists rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of _____, which said that human beings had developed from lower forms of life over the course of millions of years.

Creationism

Instead, they believed in ____ - the belief that God created the world as described in the Bible

Police powers

While treasury agents had enforced federal tax laws for many years, _____ - a government’s power to control people and property in the interest of public safety, health, welfare, and morals - had generally been reserved for the state governments

Speakeasy

People flocked to secret bars called _____, where they could purchase illegal alcohol

Ku Klux Klan

At the forefront of the movement to restrict immigration was the _____

Emergency Quota Act

In 1921 President Harding signed the ____, which established a temporary quota system, limiting immigration

Fundamentalism

Many of these people, especially those in small rural towns, responded by joining a religious movement known as _____ - a name derived from a series of pamphlets titled The Fundamentals, published by oil millionaire Lyman Stewart

Emerge

These artists expored what it meant to be “modern,” and they searched for meaning in the ___ challenges of the modern world

Diverse

Perhaps the most striking was the _____ range of artistic styles, each attempting to express the individual, modern experience

Mass media

The _____ - radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at a broad audience - did more than just entertain

Unity

They fostered a sense of shared national experience that helped ____ the nation and spread the new ideas and attitudes of the time

Bohemian

The artistic and unconventional, or _____, lifestyle of these neighborhoods offered young artists and writers new lifestyles

Carl Sandburg

Chicago poet ______ used common speech to glorify the Midwest

Eugene O’neil

Among playwrights, one of the most innovative as _____. his plays portrayed realistic characters and situations, offering a vision of life that sometimes touched on the tragic

Ernest Hemingway

_____, who served as an ambulance driver in Italy during WWI, was one such writer.

Scott Fitzgerald:

Perhaps the most famous writer of the era, created colorful, glamorous characters who chased futile dreams in The Great Gatsby

Sought

By moving north, African Americans ____ to escape the segregated society of the South, to find economic opportunities, and to build better lives

Author

Harlem Renaissance ____ continue to influence writers today

Jazz

Armstrong introduced an improvisational, early from of ____, a style of music influenced by Dixieland music and ragtime, with is ragged rhythms and syncopated melodies

Blues

Smith sang of unfulfilled love, poverty, and oppression - the classic themes of the ____, a soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals

Impact

The Great Migration had a significant _____ on the political power of African Americans in the North

Great Migration

After WWI, hundreds of thousands of African Americans joined in the _____ from the rural South to industrial cities in the North

Harlem Renaissance

A flowering of African American arts

Claude McKay

Considered the first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance, ____ emigrated from Sunny Ville, Jamaica to New York in 1912

Langston Hughes

One of the most prolific, original, and versatile writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Joplin, Missouri, Hughes became a leading voice of the African American experience in the U.S.

Cotton Club

Like many other African American entertainers, Ellington got his start at the _____, one of the most famous Harlem nightspots

Marcus Garvey

A dynamic black leader from Jamaica, ____, captured the imaginati of millions of African Americans with his call for “Negro Nationalism”