Key Terms
- bootlegging
- a nineteenth-century term for the illegal transport of alcoholic beverages that became popular during prohibition
- expatriate
- someone who lives outside of their home country
- flapper
- a young, modern woman who embraced the new morality and fashions of the Jazz Age
- Hollywood
- a small town north of Los Angeles, California, whose reliable sunshine and cheaper production costs attracted filmmakers and producers starting in the 1910s; by the 1920s, Hollywood was the center of American movie production with five movie studios dominating the industry
- Lost Generation
- a group of writers who came of age during World War I and expressed their disillusionment with the era
- Model T
- the first car produced by the Ford Motor Company that took advantage of the economies of scale provided by assembly-line production and was therefore affordable to a large segment of the population
- moving assembly line
- a manufacturing process that allowed workers to stay in one place as the work came to them
- nativism
- the rejection of outside influences in favor of local or native customs
- Negro nationalism
- the notion that African Americans had a distinct and separate national heritage that should inspire pride and a sense of community
- new morality
- the more permissive mores adopted by many young people in the 1920s
- return to normalcy
- the campaign promise made by Warren Harding in the presidential election of 1920
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- the 1925 trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution in a public school; the trial highlighted the conflict between rural traditionalists and modern urbanites
- Second Ku Klux Klan
- unlike the secret terror group of the Reconstruction Era, the Second Ku Klux Klan was a nationwide movement that expressed racism, nativism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism
- Teapot Dome scandal
- the bribery scandal involving Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in 1923