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1920's Terms & Names (Ch. 13)

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flappercasual and indepenendent woman
Gertrude Ederlefirst woman to swim across the English Channel
George Gershwinthis composer wrote original works like Rhapsody in Blue, the first jazz work for symphony
F. Scott Fitzgeraldin his novel "the Great Gatsby", this novelist protrayed wealthy people leading hopelessly empty lives
Ernest Hemingwaywounded in WWI, this writer criticized the glorification of war and introduced a style of writing based on "hard little sentences"
Universal Negro Improvement Associationthis black nationalist and artistic movment was founded by Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garveyfounder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Harlem Renaissancethis was a literary and artistic movment that celebrated African-American culture
National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peopleamong the founders of this association of African-American and white reformers was W.E.B. Du Bois
Bessie Smithsinger--the "Empress of Blues"
Clarence Darrowlawyer for John T. Scopes
W.E.B. Du BoisNAACP leader
Langston Hugheswriter of working-class African-American lives
Zora Neale Hurstonwriter of life for poor, southern African-Americans
Charles Lindberghfirst pilot to fly across the Atlantic
aviatoranother word for pilot
prohibitionsocial and legal movement of the 1920s that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcoholic beverages
evolutionthe Scopes trial was about whether or not this could be taught in the public school system
Great Migrationterm refering to the movement of African Americans from the Southern US to the Northern US


Holton High School
Holton, KS

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