| A | B |
|---|
| modernism | emphasis of science and secular values over religious ideas |
| fundamentalism | emphasized Protestant teachings - Bible is true |
| Scopes Trial | Trial accusing John Scopes of teaching evolution |
| Clarence Darrow | Defended Scopes |
| quota system | limited amount of immigrants by 2 percent of its US population |
| Ku Klux Klan | terrorized and promoted hatred of African Americans |
| Prohibition | banned alcohol use |
| Eighteenth Amendment | forbade manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol |
| Volstead Act | a law that enforced the 18th amendment |
| bootlegger | sold illegal alcohol to consumers |
| Charlie Chaplin | Popular silent film star |
| The Jazz Singer | first sound movie |
| Babe Ruth | baseball home-run king |
| Charles Lindbergh | first solo across the Atlantic Ocean |
| flapper | woman with short skirts and bobbed hair |
| Sigmund Freud | Austrian psychologist -behavior is driven by unconscious desires |
| Lost Generation | 1920 writers - lost faith in traditions - searched for new truths |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Lost generation author - American dream ends in nightmare |
| Ernest Hemingway | wrote in unadorned sentences - felt betrayed by literary language and American dream |
| Marcus Garvey | black nationalism and Back to Africa movement |
| jazz | musical form based on improvisation |
| Louis Armstrong | Trumpet player- jazz ambassador |
