THE BIRTH OF MASS CULTURE

VOCABULARY

• KKK -a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people
• nativist-the theory or doctrine that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired or learned.
• African American- a black American.
• flapper- (in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
• immigrant-

Albert Einstein

• Born 14 March 1879 Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire Died 18 April 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
• Near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald September 24, 1896 St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. Died December 21, 1940 (aged 44) Hollywood, California, U.S.
• Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s