ROARING 20S ILLUSTRATED VOCABULARY

Scopes Trial

1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools

Prohibition

A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

Harlem Renaissance

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Speakeasy

A place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition

Isolationism

A policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations

Red scare

A social/political movement designed to prevent a socialist/communist/radical movement in this country by finding "radicals," incarcerating them, deporting them, and subverting their activities

Jazz

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s

Blootlegger

An Illegal job were someone is brewing alcohol during the 18th amendment was still in affect

Black Tuesday

October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression.

Flapper

Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion

Great Migration

movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920