Unit 5 1920s Cultural Changes Flashcard

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Flappers are result of which amendment?

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19th

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Coined the term "Jazz Age" in his popular book, "The Great Gatsby"

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The cultural, social, and artistic movement in Harlem that celebrated African American writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars

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Harlem Renaissance

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The collection of music publishers and song writers who dominated popular music in the U.S. during the 1920s

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Tin Pan Alley

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The idea that native-born interests are more important than the concerns of immigrants

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Nativism

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WWI effect in which hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North such as Chicago and Detroit.

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The Great Migration of African Americans 1910-1930

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During the Scopes Trial, who was on the defense and argued it was John Scopes' right to teach evolution in school?

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Clarence Darrow

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One of the most famous Harlem Renaissance poets

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Langston Hughes

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The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle

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Social Darwinism

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1925, The trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's Theory of Evolution against Creationism; represented Fundamentalism vs. Modernism

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Scopes Monkey Trial