history Terms/Identifications to know
here are the last 2 lists of the study guide. Emily Zoffer has made the first already
Terms
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- transatlantic
- Spanning or crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
- tsar
- A person having great power; an autocrat
- leisure time
- free time to do as you please
- bootlegger
- someone who illegally sells liquir
- philanthropist
- 3. Something, such as an activity or institution, intended to promote human welfare. Love of humankind in general.
- jazz
- music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality. dancing or a dance performed to such music, as with violent bodily motions and gestures.
- speakeasy
- some who spoke loadly when in an illegal bar where drinks were sold
- rumrunner
- ships running whiskey from foreign suppliers to coastal ports
- monkey trial, scopes trial
- a trial in dayton, tennesse (1925) debating weither or not creationism or evolution was taught in a school.
- improvisation
- to compose, play, recite, or sing (verse, music, etc.) on the spur of the moment.
- anarchist
- someone who believes in no government
- Theory of Relativity
- the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts
- barnstorming
- 3. To travel around an area appearing in exhibition sports events, especially baseball games.
- Edwin Hubble
- hansome (doubt it), good at sports, smart. practiced law, although became an astronamer. He found many new aspects of the galaxes, through his microspope.
- black migration
- a lot of African American people came up north b/c they could live a better life there
- prohibition
- law stating that manifacturing or selling achohal is illegal. began in 1920.
- reds
- the worldwide communist organization had a red flag of the International, so people who were communists were called reds
- Robert Goddard
- collage profesor, in charge of the rocket launchings
- aliens
- people of another origin, immigrating to america. immagrant aliens
- flappers
- girls who wore shorter clothes, wore make-up, and bobbed their hair
- rocket
- a thing that goes up into the sky with a motor
- evolution
- the theory that everthing has been devolping over millions of years starting from a one-celled organism
- communism
- where most property and goods belong to the government
- Harlem Renaissance
- when people of Harlem began doing for fine art stuff, and people shared ideas.