Demographics
Statistics that describe a population, such as data on race or income
Harlem Renaissance
awakening of African-American Literature in the 1920's
Barrio
Spanish-speaking neighborhood (first was formed in Los Angeles)
Lost Generation
group of people (often writers) who rejected America's new cultural change
Cotton Club
One of the many thriving night clubs in the early 1920's due to the Jazz Age
Mass Media
Print, film, and broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people
Fundamentalism
The belief of Christian ideas and Jesus stated in The Fundamentals
Jim Thorpe
Former baseball and football player, first NFL President
Charles Lindbergh
famous pilot who became the first person to fly from New York to Paris non-stop.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poet and play-writer of the 1920's
Zora Neal Hurston
Famous African-American female writer of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920's
Warren G. Harding
29th President of U.S., goes against the Violent Act of 1919
Duke Ellington
Famous African-American musician of the Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance during the early 1920's
Herbert Hoover
31st President of the U.S.
Marcus Garvey
African American who organized a fleet of ships to bring blacks back to Africa
Speakeasies
Secret saloons set up to receive alcohol from Bootleggers during the early 1920's
Bootleggers
People who smuggled Alcohol into the U.S. from foreign countries
Jazz Age
Music uproar in 1920's, originated in Harlem, NY
Scopes Trial
Trial that put John T. Scopes on the stand because he taught Evolution in a Tennessee school
Flapper
Bright-colored dress introduced in the 1920's, stood for the cultural changer during the period where women became fun, out-going
