1920'S and Prohibition -INTERWAR

PROHBITION: The action of forbidding (mostly by law)

SPEAKEASY: Place where alcohol beverages were illegally sold by criminal organization

→ Led to the Italian Mafia growing

BOOTLEGGER: Sells Alcohol and drugs illegally

RED SCARE AND THE PALMER RAIDS: The fear of communism

19TH AMENDMENT: Gives women the right to vote

FUNDAMENTALISM: Super right wing

Ex. The bible took as literal truth

SCOPES TRIAL: Creationism - God created everything and there was no evolution

FLAPPER: A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself

HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Harlem becomes the center of African American people in the USA

COTTON CLUB: Nightclub in New York for African

KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT: An agreement signed in 1928 to outlaw war and settle disputes peacefully

KU KLUX KLAN: Extreme Right Wing - Racist and run by white people.

Ex. They would hang black people and burn crosses for Christ