ORIG-ROARING 20S VOCAB

Sociopolitical philosophy which advocates workers rising up to assume power and own all property collectively.

Broadcast technology that led to a new national culture of people "sitting around their living room" for news.

Flourished with the rise of Hollywood, a visual art-form through the use of moving images.

Fear of a communist revolution in the U.S.

U.S. government ratified women's right to vote

Trial and conviction of a high school teacher that taught evolution, defying a controversial Tennessee law.

Prohibited the production and sale of alcohol

A term coined by author F. Scott Fitzgerald to describe the rise of a modern consumer economy & mass entertainment

Using fear of communism and immigrants to increase membership, advocated violence to remove African Americans, Catholics

Belief that government should not regulate the economy or interfere with the growth of businesses

Believe that Bible is literally true, and interpreted scientific discoveries to be contradictions of traditionally held

Segregation and disenfranchisement laws known that dominated the American South beginning in the 1890s.

Increased Black racial pride and awareness, focused on creating “high art” out of the daily struggles of black people.

Artistic movement centered in New York City of literature, art and music by African Americans who sought self-expression

Italian immigrants executed for murder in a controversial trial. Considered political targets b/c of communist ideas.

Generation of independent American women, pushed barriers for economic, political and sexual freedom

Series of violent & abusive tactics of immigrants, workers and communists directed by the Attorney General in 1919.

A period in which millions of African Americans left the South in search of industrial jobs created by the war