Roaring Twenties 8th Grade
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- Cotton Club
- nightclub in Harlem; one of the most popular; Duke Ellington's band and Cab Calloway alternated playing there; jazz club
- Claude McKay
- wrote about condemning the wrongdoings against blacks during WWI
- Sinclair Lewis
- small town in minnesota where he later moved to nyc; babbitt and main street; small town, narrow minded americans reflected that of many city dwellers; first to win nobel prize for literature
- Eugene O'Neil
- revolutionized American theater with powerful dramas
- Deport
- expelled from a country; anarchists and communist immigrants
- Company Union
- labor organizations that were actually run by management; after judges lowered worker wages and rights and government turned their heads; membership dropped from 5 million to 3.4 million by 1929
- Boston Police Strike
- 1919 19 police were fired who tried join American Federation of Labor; socked the country
- St. Vincent Millay
- she wrote poems and wrote about the 1920s; was popular
- F Scott Fitzgerald
- friend of Hemingway; wrote about bootleggers and flappers; about rich young who partied but could not find happines; hero to college and flappers
- Sabotage
- secret destruction of property or interference with work in factories; wartime worry of this led to nativism and the Emergency Quota Act
- Quota System
- allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter the US; only 3% from each country living in the US in 1910 could be admitted; cause was 1. the growing tension and mistrust from WWI 2. the Red Scare, which included the Sacco Vanzetti trial and the plots by anarchists to kill leaders, scared US 3. fear of immigrants taking American jobs 4. Fear of anarchists and communists coming into the US 5. fear of recession with more people; Emergency Quota System made
- Babe Ruth
- yankees star; set record for homeruns
- Alfred E. Smith
- Democrat in 1928 election; first Catholic running former governor of NY; Catholics immigrants and city dwellers liked him he lsot
- Evolution Trial (Monkey)
- John Scopes arrested in Tennessee for teaching this; biology teacher; in Dayton; went against church; William Jennings Bryan ran for pres. argued state's case and Clarence Darrow argues for Scopes, also for anarchists and unions; copied every word of this all over nation ; scopes convicted and fined
- Red GRange
- Galloping Ghost; Illinois colleege football star
- Langston Hughes
- poet in the Harlem renaissance embracing and proud of black heritage; wrote about racist and violence against black
- Bobby Jones
- golfer
- Jack Dempsey
- heavyweight boxer champion
- Countee Cullen
- taught in a harlem HS; won prizes for books on poetry
- Gertrude Ederle
- at age 19 she was the first woman to swim across the English Channel
- Ku Klux Klan
- rejoined in 1915 to preserve the country for native born, white Protestants; whipped lynch terrorize burn crosses are just a few tactics to limit immigration
- Flappers
- young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting; wore heavy makeup, short hair and dresses, danced, and drank
- Helen Wills
- tennis
- Zora Neale Hurston
- spent 2 years collecting folklore and made a book of them
- Anarchist
- people who opposed organized government; tried to kill John D. Rockefeller and others; outcry against foreigners; arrested jailed or deported; Sacco Vanzetti were arrested and killed fro being anarchists; led to Emergency Quota Act
- Bessie Smith
- jazz musician; singer
- Jellie Roll Morton
- jazz player
- Charles Lindbergh
- May 1927 NY airport flew across the Atlantic Ocean alone for 33hrs with no map, parachute, or radio; Spirit of St. Louis tiny single engined plane landed in Paris, France; Lucy Lindy was a hero
- Bill Tilden
- tennis
- Expatriate
- people who leave their own country to live in a foreign land
- Louis Armstrong
- helped create jazz
- Nativism
- anti- foreign feelings; wanted to limit immigration
- Ernest Hemingway
- expatriate writer in France; drove an ambulance in World War 1; wrote about disgust of WWI in A Farewell to Arms and examined lives of American expatriates; one of the most popular writers of the 1920; simple but powerful writing influenced others
- Jazz
- music that combined West African rhythms, African American work songs and spirituals, and European harmonies. It was created in New Orleans. Also had root in ragtime of Scott Joplin
- Fad
- activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short time; dance marathon and flagpole sitting; mah- jongg and crosswords; charleston