Chapter 20-The Jazz Age Flashcards

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He wrote “Death of a Salesman”, a tragic story but realistic character on the emerging culture of the 1920s

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Eugene O’Neill

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His poetry was complicated and filled with imagery.

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c.c. eliot

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He wrote “A Farewell to Arms”

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Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway’s novel about World War I showed the tragedy of war.

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A Farewell to Arms

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5
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She wrote “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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Margaret Meade

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His painting of isolation and miss-understanding demonstrated the lost age of the ex-patriot generation of the 1920s

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Edward Hopper

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He was seen as the poet of the common man.

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Carl Sandburg

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His characters in “The Great Gatsby” showed the glamour, yet empty life of many wealthy during the 1920s

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This was a center of the New York City intellectual movement filled with a bohemian culture in the 1920s

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Greenwich Village

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He was an African American writer from Harlem in the 1920s

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Claude McKay

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11
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She was seen as the Queen of Blues during the 1920s

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Bessie Smith

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12
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The Dempsey vs. Tunney event was in the realm of this sport entertainment

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boxing

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The acts of _____ and _____ were extreme and strange aerial acrobatics entertainment popular during the 1920s.

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Wing Walking and Barn Storming

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KDKA was the first radio broadcast of a presidential election during _______’s election.

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Warren G. Harding’s

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15
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List three important and famous silent movie entertainers during the 1920s?

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Mary Pickford
Charlie Chaplin
Rudolph Valentino

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16
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She was a leader and important advocate of Birth Control during the 1920s

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Margaret Sanger

17
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This term describes the literal belief in the Bible.

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Fundamentalism

18
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This term describes the extended theory of natural selection.

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Evolutionism

19
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Who were the two celebrity lawyers at the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?

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William Jennings Bryan

Clarence Darrow

20
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This is often referred to as a 14 year progressive experiment to outlaw public consumption of alcohol.

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Prohibition

21
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This public law by Congress limited overseas immigration fueled by Anti-Immigrant attitudes.

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National Origins Act

22
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This was a internal population shift of African Americans from the Rural South to the Industrialized North during the 1920s

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The Great Migration

23
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The 1920s was greatly influenced by this popular music

24
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He was a African American leader during the 1920s

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Marcus Garvey

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Marcus Garvey's organization during the 1920s was called
The Universal Negro Improvement Association
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This was an advancement of African American pride and culture with anti-racist themes during the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance
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He used his musical talents with the trumpet to play Jazz during the 1920s
Louis Armstrong
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This was a movement calling for the abandonment of all forms of government popular by some during the early years of the 1900s
anarchy
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Which political party held power over the presidency during the 1920s
Republican Party
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His phrase of "Normalcy" echoed an important theme spreading through America during the 1920s against agitation and progressivism.
Warren G. Harding
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This stance by the United States toward world issues during the 1920s was a direct result of disappointing results from the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I
Isolationism