1920s - Vocab Test

founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

defendants in a controversial murder trial in Massachusetts; proved immigrants weren’t treatly fairly in America

continuing criminal enterprise that rationally works to profit from illegal activity

profound social, cultural, and literary change, and the influence of Jazz Music

criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher for teaching evolution

promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism

an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching

sound communication by radio waves, usually through the transmission of music, news

secret hate group in the southern U.S., which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of African Americans

one of the largest movements of people in US history. 6 million black people moved from the American South to North

a period of rapid economic growth and social change.

a series of still photographs on film projected onto a screen using light in rapid succession

When southern legislatures passed laws of racial segregation directed against African Americans

considered the leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artists in jazz history

nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933

a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior

the illegal manufacture, transport, distribution, or sale of alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period

period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans

decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States

American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist