Chapter 24 Sections 4 & 5
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- Flappers
- Young women who rebelled agains traditional ways of thinking and acting in the 1920's. They wore their hair & dresses short, smoked and drank.
- Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
- The trial of two Italian immigrants who were arrested for robbery and murder. They admitted they were anarchists, but said they were innocent of the crimes.
- Louis Armstrong
- A brilliant trumpet player who helped to create jazz.
- Red Scare
- Thousands of radicals were arrested and jailed by the government because they were feared to be Communists with a plot against the country.
- Anarchists
- People opposed to organized government.
- Ku Klux Klan
- White supremacist group who wanted to keep America white. They hated Blacks, Catholics and Jews, and all other immigrants.
- Jazz
- Black musicians created this kind of music from combined African rhythms and European harmonies, ragtime and blues.
- Langston Hughes
- A leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "My People"
- Quota System
- Only a certain number of people from each country were allowed to enter the US because the government was afraid that anarchists & Communists would take over the country.
- Bobby Jones
- Won almost every golf championship in the 1920's
- Helen Wills
- Famous tennis player in the 1920's.
- Clarence Darrow
- Famous lawyer who argued on behalf of John Scopes during the Scopes trial. He believed in evolution.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Young writer who best captured the mood of the Roaring Twenties in this book "The Great Gatsby"
- Ernest Hemingway
- One of the most popular writers of the 1920's who wrote "A Farewell to Arms"
- Albert Fall
- The Secretary of the Interior who accepted bribes from an oil company and started the Teapot Dome Scandal.
- Talkies
- Movies with a sound track instead of silent action.
- Sinclair Lewis
- Famous 1920's author who wrote Babbitt and Main Street - presented small town Americans as dull and narrow-minded.
- Countee Cullen
- Black writer who wrote about the experiences of African Americans. He graduated from Harvard and New York University and won prizes for his poetry.
- Scopes Trial
- John Scopes was a young biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee who taught his students Darwin's theory of evolution. His court trial made history.
- Charles Darwin
- He claimed that all life had evolved from simpler forms - the theory of evolution. Some churches said his teachings were against the Bible, so several states passed laws against teaching evolution.
- Darwin's Theory
- Theory that says that all life evolved from simpler forms - the theory of evolution.
- Radio
- Became popular in the 1920's. The first radio station began broadcasting in Pittsburgh in 1920. By 1929, more than 10 million families owned radios.
- Marcus Garvey
- A popular Black leader who organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He started the Back to Africa movement.
- Babe Ruth
- The greatest baseball player of the 1920's. He set a record for hitting 60 home runs in one season.
- Rudolph Valentino
- The most popular movie actor of the 1920's
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- An enormously popular poet who expressed the frantic pace of the 1920's in her poetry.
- Alfred E. Smith
- Former governor of New York who ran for President against Herbert Hoover. He was against Prohibition.
- Fad
- A style or activity that is popular for a short time.
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Black writer who wanted to save African American folklore. She traveled all across the South collecting folk tales, songs & prayers of Black southerners. Her book was called Mules and Men.
- Charles Lindbergh
- Flew the airplane "The Spirit of St. Louis" for 33 1/2 hours across the Atlantic to Paris alone. He became a hero.
- George Eastman
- Invented the movie camera in the late 1800's with Thomas Edison.
- Harlem Renaissance
- A rebirth of African American culture. White Americans took notice of the achievements of Black artists.
- William Jennings Bryan
- Famous lawyer who argued against the teaching of evolution in the Scopes trial.