1920+1930s💀😐😯🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱😵🙄 Flashcards

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Spanish flu

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Spanish (believed started Kansas) influenza- pandemic (disease that spreads across many nations….really started from hogs
•Last 9 months and killed 20 million worldwide
•US ½ million deaths
•Crime rate dropped
•Fines for sneezing/coughing in public

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Williams Jennings Bryant

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Prosecuting attorney at the scopes monkey trials

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Clarence Darrow

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Defending attorney at the scopes monkey trial

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4
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Lost generation

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A group ex-patriot’s during the 1920´s

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5
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Prohibition

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Outlawed alcohol

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Speakeasy

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A place where alcohol was sold illegally

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Bootlegger

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A person who smuggled alcohol into the US during prohibition

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Red Scare

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Fear of a revolution with the intent to make the US a communist contry

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9
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19th amendment

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Granted women the right to vote

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Two radical Italian immigrants who where controversially found guilty of murder

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Fundamentalism

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Taking the word of the Bible literally

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Scopes trial

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A case in 1925 in which the biology teacher teacher John Scopes was tried for teaching evolution

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13
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Flapper

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An young woman in the 1920s that embrace modern fashion and urban attitudes

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Harlem Renaissance

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The growth of African Americans arts

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cotton Club

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Famous jazz club located in Harlem where the musicians of the Harlem Renaissance often Played.

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16
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Emergency Quota act

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Act by Congress that limited immigration

17
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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Albert Fall illegally rented out public oil reserves to companies

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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15 nations agreed that all conflicts should be settled peacefully however it lacked the means to enforce

19
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Hooverville

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homes shelters built from Old boxes and other debris group together in pitiful “shanty towns”

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1928 election

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Herbert Hoover vs Alfred Smith

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Langston Hughes

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A famous African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance. Made poems like I, too, Sing America

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Zora Neale Hurston

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African American Writer during the Harlem Renaissance. Wrote dust tracks on a road

23
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Created The FBI, Attornet Gernal for Hoover

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Mitchell Palmer

24
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Three most popular sports

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Baseball, Boxing, football