U.S. H. Chapter 13

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U.S. H. / Chapter 13

• Changing Ways of Life

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Vocabulary

• Prohibition-era that prohibited the manufacture
  and sales of alcoholic beverages. (18th
  Amendment)
• Speakeasy- hidden saloons and night clubs that
  sold alcohol.
• Bootlegger- smugglers who bought alcohol in
  Canada and the Caribbean
• Fundamentalism- a belief that everything in the
  bible is literally true.
• Scopes Trial- John Scopes on trial for teaching
  evolution in his class.
• Flapper- young women that embraced the new
  fashions and values of the twenties.
• Double-standard- set of principles granting one
  group more freedoms than another group

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• Harlem Renaissance- African-American artistic
  movement.
• NAACP- National Association for the Advancement
  of Colored People. Worked to end violence
  against African Americans.
• Assembly line- a product is put together as it
  passes from one employee to the next.
• Census- the official government count of
  citizens.
• Conformity- being like everyone else.

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• Charles Lindbergh- first to fly solo across the
  Atlantic Ocean.
• George Gershwin- Composer
• Georgia OKeefe- Artist
• Sinclair Lewis- Novelist
• F. Scott Fitzgerald- Novelist
• Edna St. Vincent Millay- Poet
• Ernest Hemingway- Novelist

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• Charles Lindbergh

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• George Gershwin

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• Georgia OKeefe

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• Sinclair Lewis

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• F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Edna St. Vincent Millay

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• Ernest Hemingway

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• Emancipated- freed from restraint or from limits
  on thought and behavior.
• Fad- a fashion that is very popular for a short
  period of time.
• Folklore- traditional myths and tales of people.
• Literacy- the ability to read and write.
• Lynching- an execution without due process of
  law, especially a hanging by a mob.
• Mass media- means of communication that reach a
  large audience.

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• Materialism- placing great value on money and
  possessions.
• Peer pressure- the influence of a persons
  friends to be like everyone else.
• Urbanization- the movement of people from rural
  or agricultural areas to cities.
• Theory of Evolution- theory that modern plant and
  animal life developed slowly over millions of
  years.
• Thriftiness- careful spending of money.

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• Scopes trial