Flappers - a young woman, especially one who, during the 1920s, behaved and dressed in a boldly unconventional manner., Henry Ford - An American automobile manufacturer who created the Model T in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the automotive industry, The First Red Scare - A fear driven, Anti-Communist movement that spread across the U.S. after the Bolshevik Revolution took over Russia, Harlem Renaissance - A golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art., The Great Migration - The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970., Warren G. Harding - President that died in office: an office filled with large corruption scandals., Prohibition (the 18th Amendment) - A nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933, Communism - Political and Economic ideology that wishes to eliminate class systems and means of productions are owned by the public (or government).., Marcus Garvey - A leader who organized the first important American Black nationalist movement and preached an independent Black economy., Speakeasy - A place where alcoholic beverages were illegally sold and hidden away from public view., Langston Hughes - A central figure in the Harlem Renaissance-- A major poet, wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays., speculation - investment in stocks or commodities in hopes of achieving gains but with the risk of loss, Charles Lindbergh - The first aviator to complete a solo, nonstop transatlantic flight (fly across the Atlantic Ocean)., Tin Pan Alley - A genre of American popular music that was large in the 1920s and this music industry was based in New York City., Temperance movement - A movement of political groups (many filled with women) that wanted alcohol limited or outright banned, The Jazz Age - A cultural period and movement that took place in America during the 1920s from which both new styles of music and dance emerged, Teapot Dome Scandal - A corruption scandal that involved the secret leasing of federal lands (like this spot here in Wyoming) that contained oil reserves., Consumerism - Americans used their earned money to purchase goods like automobiles, appliances new clothes, radios, and cosmetics., Traditionalism - The idea of practicing and keeping long held cultural and religious values (keep things the way they are), Scopes Monkey Trial - High school teacher went on trial for teaching evolution in the classroom, which was illegal in Tennessee., assembly line - manufacturing process that made assembling vehicles (particularly Ford vehicles) easier and efficient, F. Scott Fitzgerald - Early 20th Century novelist and his most famous work is The Great Gatsby (its in the photo), modernist - Relating to recent or contemporary styles or ideas., Ku Klux Klan - Violent, terrorist group that preached White Supremacy, despised modernism, Catholics, immigrants, and African-Americans. Had support in many parts of the U.S., Bootleggers - A person who makes, transports or sells alcoholic beverages illegally., 21st Amendment - This Amendment repealed the nationwide ban of alcohol, lynching - The practice of murder by groups of people that tortured and killed African-Americans, usually by hanging., normalcy - the calm, political social order instead of intervention and idealism from President Wilson,

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