| A | B |
| flapper | casual and indepenendent woman |
| Gertrude Ederle | first woman to swim across the English Channel |
| George Gershwin | this composer wrote original works like Rhapsody in Blue, the first jazz work for symphony |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | in his novel "the Great Gatsby", this novelist protrayed wealthy people leading hopelessly empty lives |
| Ernest Hemingway | wounded in WWI, this writer criticized the glorification of war and introduced a style of writing based on "hard little sentences" |
| Universal Negro Improvement Association | this black nationalist and artistic movment was founded by Marcus Garvey |
| Marcus Garvey | founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association |
| Harlem Renaissance | this was a literary and artistic movment that celebrated African-American culture |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | among the founders of this association of African-American and white reformers was W.E.B. Du Bois |
| Bessie Smith | the "Empress of Blues" |
| Clarence Darrow | lawyer |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | NAACP leader |
| Langston Hughes | writer |
| Marcus Garvey | separatist |
| George Gershwin | musician |
| Zora Neale Hurston | writer |
| Charles Lindbergh | first pilot to fly across the Atlantic |
| aviator | another word for pilot |
| prohibition | social and legal movement of the 1920s that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcoholic beverages |
| evolution | the Scopes trial was about whether or not this could be taught in the public school system |
| Great Migration | term refering to the movement of African Americans from the Southern US to the Northern US |