| A | B |
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| Eighteenth Amendment | prohibited the transportation, sale, and manufacture of alcoholic beverages |
| speakeasy | illegal nightclubs where alcohol was sold illegally |
| bootlegger | people who smuggled alcohol into the United States from Canada, Cuba and the West Indies |
| fundamentalism | Protestant movement grounded in the literal interpretation of the Bible |
| Billy Sunday | ex-baseball player who became a revivalist preacher in the South |
| Aimee Semple McPherson | Los Angeles evangelist preacher who founded the Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
| Clarence Darrow | nationally famous trial lawyer hired by the ACLU to defend John Scopes |
| Scopes trial | 1925 fight over the roles of science and religion in public schools |
| flapper | an emancipated woman of the 1920s who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. |
| double standard | a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women |
| Margaret Sanger | opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in 1916 |
| Babe Ruth | New York Yankee homerun hitting legend |
| Gertrude Ederle | first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926. |
| Charles Lindbergh | made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
| George Gershwin | wrote classical music that combined American jazz and traditional European musical forms |
| Georgia O'Keefe | intensely colored paintings of New York and the Southwest made her famous |
| Sinclair Lewis | the first US novelist to win a Nobel Prize in literature |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | the “Father of the Jazz Age”, he wrote about the negative side of the “Roaring ‘20s” |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | her poems celebrated youth and a life of independence and freedom |
| Izzy Einstein & Moe Smith | Two honest Prohibition agents |
| Ernest Hemingway | novelist wounded in WWI. He made popular a tough simplified style of writing. |
| Zora Neale Hurston | African-American female writer who documented the Great Migration in her works |
| James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer, and executive secretary of the NAACP who led the fight to protect African-American rights and pass anti-lynching laws |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, organization which fought for African-American rights |
| Marcus Garvey | Jamaican immigrant, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association to promote African-American businesses and a “back to Africa” movement |
| UNIA | United Negro Improvement Association |
| Harlem Rennaissance | a literary and artistic movement, born in the 1920s, celebrating Africa-American culture |
| Claude McKay | Jamaican immigrant and Harlem Renaissance poet whose militant verses urged African-Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination |
| Langston Hughes | One of the best known poets of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote of the difficult everyday lives of the working-class African-Americans |
| Paul Robeson | Shakespearean actor and USSR supporter |
| Louis Armstrong | trumpeter who became the single most important and influential musician in jazz history |
| Duke Ellington | Jazz pianist and composer who is renowned as one of the US’s greatest composers |
| Bessie Smith | popular blues singer who, in 1927, became the highest paid black artist in the world |
