| A | B |
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| Speakeasies | Secret, illegal clubs that served alcohol during prohibition |
| Prohibition | The banning of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol |
| Great Migration | Mass migration of some 500,000 African Americans to mid-western and northern US cities during and after WWI |
| Harlem Renaissance | Period of great African artistic achievement in the 1920s; named after the Harlem neighborhood in NY City |
| 19th Amendment | Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote |
| Red Scare | A wave of anticommunist fear that swept the US after WWI |
| 18th Amendment | Constitutional amendment that outlawed the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the US |
| Jazz Age | A term for the 1920s; so called because of jazz music's popularity during the decade |
| Talkies | Movies with sound or dialogue |
| Flappers | Young women in the 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior |
| Red Scare | Fear of Radicals including communists and anarchists |
| Xenophobia | Fear of Foreigners |
| Calvin Coolidge | Became president after the president died of a heart attack |
| Warren Harding | Republican president who signed several anti-immigrant acts |
| Disarmament | The limiting of making military weapons |
| American Civil Liberties Union | Supported immigrants and defended John Scope |
| Emergency Quota Act | Limited the number of immigrants |
| Farm laborers/Migrant Workers | Groups of people who suffered the most during the 1920's |
| Installment Plan | Allowed more people to be able to afford a car |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Wrote the Great Gatsby |
| Charles Lindbergh | First person to fly over the Atlantic ocean nonstop |
| W. C. Handy | Father of the Blues |
| Bessie Smith | Empress of the Blues |
| Lost Generation | Writers who criticized the culture of the 1920's |
| Expatriates | U.S. citizens who lived in other countries |
| Art-Deco | Buildings that had vertical and zig-zag lines |
| Nativism | People who had strong anti-immigrant feelings |
