4.1 Post WW1 Tensions & The Roaring 20s

Roaring Twenties

popular image of the decade as a period of prosperity, optimism, and changing morals

social change

significant shift over time in cultural practices, including norms and values

Great Migration

movement of African Americans in the twentieth century from the rural South to the industrial North

Harlem Renaissance

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

jazz

a 20th-century style of popular music developed mainly by African-American musicians

Red Scare

Intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas

19th Amendment

amendment that prohibits states from denying the right to vote based on gender

18th Amendment

amendment that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Prohibition

a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

Flapper

a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

Scopes Monkey Trial

1925 court case in Tennessee that focused on the issue of teaching evolution in public schools.

Consumerism

A preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods.

Lynching

putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

xenophobia

fear of foreigners or outsiders

Palmer Raids

Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism