| A | B |
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| Bessie Smith | “Empress of the Blues”; singer |
| Prohibition | 18th amendment started it; 21st ended it |
| fads | popular for a short time |
| Harlem Renaissance | refers to work of African American poets &writers who lived in or described a district of New York City in 1920s & 30s |
| Jacob Lawrence | African American painter;depicts black life,history, and culture |
| Jazz age | a period of time in the early 20th centuryknown for great changes in fashions, music & morals, named after a genre of music |
| Bootleggers | people who illegally manufactured, sold, & transported alocoholic beverages |
| Louis Armstrong | brilliant jazz musician; “Satchmo” |
| Tin Lizzie | first massed produced vehicle |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | an artist known for urban scenes & southwest landscapes |
| Speakeasy | illegal saloons that existed during Prohibition |
| John Steinbeck | an author who wrote about America’s Outcasts & the 1930s |
| The Great Migration | Movement of African American to northern cities in search of employment opportunities |
| Duke Ellington | Pianist and composer, most prolific composer in Jazz history |
| Aaron Copland and George Gershwin | American Composers |
| Langston Hughes | Poet and writer of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote about African America life |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | K. American novelist who captured the Jazz Age in his works |
