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What percentage of Americans ,I’ve in communities of populations of 2500- 1 million?

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51.2%

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How many people left farms and towns per year?

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2 million

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What cities w among the most populated?

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New York City. Chicago, and Philiadelphia

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The city that was an industrial powerhouse, home to whites, Polish, Irish, Russians, Italians, swedes, Arabs, French, and Chinese

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Chicago

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What did city dwellers tolerate, while town people did not?

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Drinking,gambling, casual drinking

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When manufacture, sale and translation of alcohol became illegal

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Prohibition

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Amendment made when prohibition cam about

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18th amendment

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What did reformers think of liquor

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  • prime cause of corruption

- led to crime, wife and child abuse, accidents on job, and other social problems

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Where did people support prohibition?

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Rural south and western areas

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What women group thought drinking was a sin, and helped to make prohibition happen?

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Women’s Christian Temperance Union

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What law wasn’t funded anymore, due to a low budget?

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Prohibition

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Established a prohibition bureau in the treasury department

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Volstead act

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How was prohibition enforced?

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18,700 miles of patrollers

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A underground hidden saloon and nightclub

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Speakeasies

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How did you get into a speakeasy?

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A card/ password

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A person who smuggled alcohol from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies

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Bootleggers

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How did bootleggers get the alcohol?

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In other countries since it was used for medicinal purposes

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What did prohibition/ bootleggers lead to?

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Organized crime

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19
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A very prosperous bootlegger

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Al Capone

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20
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How did al Capone get rid of his competition?

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He killed them

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What did non prohibition people believe?

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They believed that prohibition was making the country worse, than without it

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What was the 18th amendment reappeared with?

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The 21st amendment

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The Protestant movement grounded in a literal, or non symbolic interpretation of the bible; Were skeptical of some scientific discoveries and theories; they argued that all important knowledge could be found in the bible

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Fundamentalists

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What did fundamentalists reject?

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The theory of evolution

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A theory stating that plant and animals species had developed and changed over a long period of time

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Evolution by Charles Darwin

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Baseball player who became a preacher and stages emotional meetings in the south

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Billy Sunday

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Women who used Hollywood showmanship to preach the word to homesick migrants and devoted followers of her radio broadcasts

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Aimee Semple McPherson

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When did fundamentalists get a lot of followers?

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When they wanted the teaching of evolution in schools prohibited

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What state made it a law that made evolution a crime

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Tennessee

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The union that would defend any teacher to challenge the law of not teaching evolution in schools

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American civil liberties union

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Biology teacher in Dayton they accosted the challenge of the evolution law

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John Scope

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32
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What happened to scopes?

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He was arrested

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33
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The most famous lawyer of the day

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Clarence Darrow

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Evangelist who preached against the evils of drinking

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Billy Sunday

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Three-time Democratic candidate for president and devout fundamentalist served as a special prosecutor for John Scopes

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William Jennings Bryan

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36
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What was the trial for John Scopes called?

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Scopes trial

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A ferry over evolution in the role of science and religion in public schools and an American society

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Scopes trials

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When did the trial begin?

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July 10, 1925

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39
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What was the scopes trial results

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He was found guilty

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40
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How did women become in the 20s

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Independent and rebellious

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41
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And emancipated woman who embrace new fashions and urban attitudes

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Flapper

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42
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What were some of the types of clothing that gallopers wore

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-tight clothes, just above the knees, pantyhose, heels

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43
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What did women want to be equal with

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Men

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44
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Set of principles granting more sexual freedom to men than women

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Double standard

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45
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When men give them for more what happened to women with jobs

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They lost them do two men coming home and having to take over

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46
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Since women were working during the men at war, what jobs did women begin to do

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Working with automobiles, planes, taxis

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47
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What changes happening with the family

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Birthrate went down because of birth control
There was a big equality in marriage
Children went to school

48
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Who won the boxing Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney

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Gene Tunney

49
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How many Americans went to high school in 1914

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1 million

50
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How many highschooler’s went to school in 1926

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4 million

51
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What was a struggle of being a teacher around the 1920s

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It was a lot of immigrants so they didn’t speak English

52
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What type of news increase and what kind and decrease during these

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Increase- newspapers

Decrease- local news

53
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What was the most powerful communication

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Radio

54
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What did the people in the 1920s listen to on the radio

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The president or even the World Series

55
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How much money was spent on entertainment in the 1920s

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4.5 million dollars

56
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Beloved hero, small-town pilot

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Charles Lindbergh

57
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Who went after the prize for first nonstop solo transatlantic flight

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Charles Lindbergh

58
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Same as giving to him, a music composer, because he merged traditional songs with jazz

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George Gershwin

59
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Person who caught Lonely American life in his paintings

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Edward Hopper

60
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Made colorful canvases

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Georgia O’Keeffe

61
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What entertainment and made the era Rich

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Writing

62
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First nobel peace winner in literature

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Sinclair Lewis

63
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Name the 1920s the Jazz age and his books revealed gaiety and freedom leading Imperialed life

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Scott Fitzgerald

64
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What was the writers group name that met at the Algonquin Hotel

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Lost Generation

65
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Who was the best lady at the roundtable

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Dorthy Parker

66
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Wrote poems about youth and life independence

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

67
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Best-known expatriate author

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Ernest Hemingway

68
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What happened to the cost of schools

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Taxes doubled

69
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What magazines were founded in the 1920s

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Readers Digest and time

70
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New York Yankees slugger

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Babe Ruth

71
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A celebrated picture and team manager that founded the negro National League

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Andrew foster

72
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Who is inspired by Lindbergh’s accomplishments

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Amelia Earhart

73
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What did the African-Americans migration express from themselves

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Express the change in attitude

74
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Movement of hundreds of thousands of African-Americans in the homes in the South and move north to the cities in search of jobs

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Great migration

75
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What happen in northern cities that had a big flow of African-American migrators

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Became a lot of tension

76
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Urged African Americans to protest racial violence

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NAACP

77
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Who led a parade of 10,000 African-American people to protest violence

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EB du bois

78
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Lawyer and NAACP executive secretary

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James Weldon Johnson

79
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Immigrant from Jamaica believe should build a separate society

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Marcus Garvey

80
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What group did Garvey found

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The universal Negro improvement Association

81
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What Happened to Garvey

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He was put in jail for mail fraud

82
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Where did a lot of African-Americans moved

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Upperwest side of New York Manhattan Island

83
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What did Harlem suffer

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Overcrowding unemployment and property

84
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A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture

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Harlem Renaissance

85
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A novelist poet and you make an immigrant and was a major figure in his military versus urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination

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Claude McKay

86
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The movements best non-public and his problems describes a difficult lives of working-class African-Americans

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Langston Hughes

87
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Her work celebrated what you called the comments person’s art for the simple folk Waze and values of people who had survived slavery through the ingenuity and strength

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Zora Neale

88
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Son of a one time slave became a major dramatic actor

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Paul Robison

89
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A young trumpet player John Oliver’s group which became known as the creole jazz band

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Louis Armstrong

90
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Where did Jazz spread to

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Kansas City, Memphis, and New York City

91
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An Exotic night club in Harlem

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Cotton club

92
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jazz pianist and composer that lady is 10 piece orchestra at the cotton club

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Duke Ellington

93
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Who wrote The great Gatsby

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Scott Fitzgerald

94
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The want to get away from all the bad things happening during the Great Depression

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Escapism

95
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Group devoted to 100% Americanism and also believed in keeping blacks in their place, destroy saloons, opposing unions and driving Roman Catholics Jews and foreign-born people out of the country

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KKK

96
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After the war when companies had to transistor ion from making war products, to American needed goods

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Guns to butter

97
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Massachusetts governor who called out the national guard to break the Boston police strike

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Calvin Coolidge

98
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Man who became president in 1921

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Harding

99
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Secretary of State that urgent that no more warships be built for 10 years

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Charles Evans Hughes

100
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Raise taxes on some US imports to 60%

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Forget- McCumber Tarrif

101
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The presidents poker playing cronies it would soon cause a great deal of embarrassment

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Ohio gang

102
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The place at which the government has set aside oil rich public lands

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Teapot Dome Wyoming

103
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secretary of the interior that man and she is a oil reserves transferred from the Navy to the interior department and then secretly Lisa landed to private oil companies

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Albert Fall

104
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Scandal in which the secretary of Interior manage to get the oil reserves transferred from the Navy to the interior department and then secretly least Atlanta to private oil companies

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Teapot Dome scandal

105
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He was elected president right after Harding

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Calvin Coolidge

106
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The maker of the assembly line

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Henry Ford

107
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The first car that was made through assembly line

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Model T

108
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The car that was created after the model T

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Model A

109
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Route that provided a route for people trucking west from Chicago to California

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Route 66

110
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When Cities spread in all directions

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Urban sprawl

111
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Enable people to buy goods over an extended period without having to put down much money at the time of purchase

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Installman plan

112
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when people spent the moe y that they did not have

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Superficial prosperity

113
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Condensation in money, material, labor

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Reparation

114
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The levels of wealth comfort material goods and necessities available to a certain class

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Standard of living

115
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An attempt following World War I for the triple entente to compromise and collect war reparations

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Dawes plan

116
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Between 1921 in 1922, the world’s largest naval power gathered in Washington for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in east Asia

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Washington Naval conference

117
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International agreement in which signatory states promise not to use warm to resolve disputes or conflicts

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Kellog briand pact

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