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limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year. | quota system |
the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933. | Prohibition |
defined as the act by Congress that enforced prohibition from 1919 to 1933 | Volstead Act |
rum-running, the illegal transport of alcoholic beverages | bootlegger |
an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the silent era, his career spanned more than 75 years, | Charlie Chaplin |
The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. | “The Jazz Singer” |
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean | Charles Lindbergh |
a fashionable young woman in the 1920’s intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. | flapper |
music characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. | Jazz |
A twentieth-century African-American jazz trumpet player and singer. | Louis Armstrong |
popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.[1] She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on other jazz vocalists. | Bessie Smith |
the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. | Harlem Renaissance |
A twentieth-century African-American author known for his poems about the black experience in the United States. | Langston Hughes |