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| Flappers | carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. They symbolized the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s. |
| Moral Majority | Coalition of very conservative, evangelical Christians known as the religious right. 1979 Jerry Falwell founded the political organization. It registered 2-3 million voters. |
| Beat Generation | A group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they wrote about. Central elements of "Beat" culture include a rejection of mainstream American values, embrace of Jazz, eastern religions, and alternative lifestyles. |
| Rock n' Roll | "crossover" musical style that rose to dominance in the 1950s, merging rhythm and blues with white bluegrass and coutry; featuring a heavy beat and driving rhythm, and became a defining feature of 1950s youth culture. |
| Jazz | a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime in the 1920s. |
| Lost Generation | Group of American intellectuals that viewed America in the 1920s as bigoted, intellectually shallow, and consumed by the quest for the dollar. Many went to Paris to live and work. Ernest Hemingway wrote of them in The Sun Also Rises. |
| The Harlem Renaissance | Black literary and artistic movement centered on Harlem that lasted from the 1920s into the early 1930s. Both celebrated and lamented black life in America. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were two famous writers of this movement. |
| Nativism | hostility to foreigners |
| Tin Pan Alley | the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. |
| Conservatism | Opposed to big govt, New deal liberalism, gun control, feminism, alternative life styles, welfare, affirmative action, abortion and drug use. |
| H.U.A.C. | government committee that investigated hollywood and others during the Red Scare. |
| Pop Art | Popular in the 60s, pop art sought to blend art with mass produced commercialism. Andy Warhol |
| Transcendentalism | A literature movement in the 1830s-1850s that focused on intuition and nature and rejection of materialism. Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
| Dorothea Lange | Photographer known for her images from the Great Depression, such as "Migrant Mother." |
