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Chapter 22 The Roaring 20's Flashcards

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What were some famous Jazz Musicians?

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Louis Armstrong, Duke Elington

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Fad

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Style or activity popular for a short time

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Wrote “The Great Gatsby”

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Langston Huges

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Poet gained popularity for his expression of racial pride

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Installment buying

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Buying goods on credit

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Stocks

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Shares of the company

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Bull market

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Period of rising stock prices

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Buy on the margin

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Borrowing money

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What was the percentage of unemployment

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5%

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Why did Americans fear the immigrants?

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Because the Americans were scared that the US jobs will be lost to immigrants.

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Emergency immigration law 1921

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Limited emigration from Eastern and Southern Europe further restrictions in 1924 and 29, quota system

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18th amendment

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Making selling or transporting alcohol illegally

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19th amendment

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Gave woman the right to vote

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Bootleggers

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Alcohol smugglers

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Speakeasies

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Illegal taverns

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21st amendment

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Repealed the 18th amendment

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What was the first movie that had audio?

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The Jazz singer 1927

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Scopes trail 1925

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John Scopes high school biology teacher accused of violating Tennessee law by teaching the theory of evolution

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Where did many African-Americans move after World War I

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They moved up north

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The great migration

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When African-Americans moved north after the war

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Anarchists

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People who oppose all government responsibilities

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What were communists known to the anarchists

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The reds

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Prohibition

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Total ban on alcoholic drinks

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Who was Marcus Garvey

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He was a Jamaican immigrant trying to encourage African Americans to say what they want or move back to Africa permanently

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What happened in the Harding administration?

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Hardings presidency was tainted by scandal along with the teapot scandal

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What was Coolidge known for?

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His honesty and integrity

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Communism

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Economic and political system in which the state own the means of production and a single party rules

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