The Jazz Age
Vocab terms for the jazz age.
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- 21st amendment
- 1933; prohibition repealed officially
- Prohibition
- a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- 19th amendment
- Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
- John Steinbeck
- United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers, also wrote grapes of wrath (1902-1968)
- Harlem Renaissance
- a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
- Quota System
- established the maximum number of immigrants from any given country
- Langston Hughes
- Black poet, wrote a dream deferred
- Installment buying
- Purchasing an item by paying a little now and the rest in monthly payments
- bootleggers
- Smugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era
- Speakeasies
- Secret bars where alcohol could be purchased illegally
- Productivity
- The amount of goods and services workers can produce in a given time
- 18th amendment
- banned the manufacturing of alcohol
- F. scott fitzgerald
- Author of the harlem renassiance wrote The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams
- Capitalism
- doctrine that private ownership and free markets should govern economies
- Recession
- An extended decline in general business activity
- The Great Migration
- 200,000 to 500,000 africans moved north from 1915 to 1930
- Flappers
- Rebellious women who went against the norm of fashion, symbolized revolution
- George Gershwin
- United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937)
- Duke Ellington
- United States jazz composer and piano player, trumpet player and bandleader (1899-1974)
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- An african american painter (1887-1986)
- Anarchist
- person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority
- Louis Armstrong
- First great jazz soloist. Played trumpet and was instrumental in developing scat singing
- Lease
- a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
- Discrimination
- Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice