20th Century Vocab
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- Speakeasies
- Illegal sell of alcohol clubs
- Duke Ellington
- pianist and orchestra leader
- Prohibition
- banning of manufacturing of alcohol
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- American writer who captured the Jazz age in his books
- Bootleggers
- People who smuggled alcohol
- Aaron Copland
- American Composer
- Harlem Renaissance
- Black Authors; Black life
- Louis Armstrong
- jazz Musician, played the trumpet
- Jazz Age
- 1920's; named because of popular jazz music began
- John Steinbeck
- American author who wrote about America's trodden and outcasts
- Scopes Trail
- Trial of John T scopes a high school science teach; Darwin's Theory
- Jacob Lawrence
- African American Painter whos work was on black life in the 20's
- Langston Hughes
- American Poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist
- Fads
- Interest that changed all the time
- Bessie Smith
- most popular jazz singer ever
- Tin Lizzie
- nickname for the Model T
- George Gershwin
- pianist and composer
- Great Migration
- moving to northern cities of African Americans
- Guglielmo Marconi
- father of wireless; radio
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- American Artist who was known for her urban scenes of the south west
- David Sarnoff
- Idea for music box radio