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Jazz Age II Flashcards

1
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Exempted natives of the western hemisphere from the quotas

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National Origins Act

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2
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funded irrigation projects in the southwest and led to the creation of large farms that needed thousands of workers

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Newlands Reclammation Act of 1902

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3
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his theories affected people’s ideas about relationships

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Sigmund Freud

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4
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women who smoked cigarettes, drank prohibited liquor, and wore makeup and sleeveless dresses with short skirts

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Flappers

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5
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her research led to a dramatic drop in the death rates of tuberculosis

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Florence Sabin

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6
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founded the American Birth Control League in 1921

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Margaret Sanger

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7
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what class was affected the most by birth control?

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the middle class

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believed that The Bible was literally true and without error

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Fundamentalists

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the scientific theory that humans and other forms of life have “evolved” over time

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evolution

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the belief that GOD created the world and everything in it (usually as The Bible described it)

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Creationism

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advertised for a teacher willing to be arrested for teaching evolution

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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

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a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee who went to trial for teaching evolution (against Tennessee law)

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John T. Scopes

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three-time presidential candidate who led the prosecution and represented the Creationists

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William Jennings Bryan

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one of the country’s most celebrated lawyers who represented Scopes in the monkey trial

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Clarence Darrow

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prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol

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18th Amendment

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gave the US Treasury Department the power to enforce prohibition

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Volstead Act

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places where alcoholic beverages were sold illegally

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Speakeasies

18
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the illegal production and distribution of alcohol

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bootlegging

19
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Repealed the 18th amendment

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the 21st Amendment

20
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wrote “A Farewell to Arms”

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Ernest Hemingway

21
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wrote “The Great Gatsby”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

22
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The first “talking picture” (talking movie) that began the golden age of Hollywood

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The Jazz Singer

23
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place in NYC where composers wrote popular music

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Tin Pan Alley

24
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wrote “Puttin’ on The Ritz” and “White CHRISTmas”

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Irving Berlin

25
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the most popular comedy of the time that was about the troubles of two African Americans

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Amos ‘n’ Andy

26
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drunk baseball hero

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Babe Ruth

27
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world heavyweight champion from 1919-1926

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Jack Dempsey

28
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took Dempsey’s title

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Gene Tunney

29
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college football’s most famous player of the time, known as the “Galloping Ghost”

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Red Grange

30
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best golfer of the decade

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Bobby Jones

31
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a “flower” of the African American Arts

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The Harlem Renaissance

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the first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance, who wrote “Harlem Shadows”

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Claude McKay

33
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became a leading voice of the African American experience in America

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Langston Hughes

34
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an American style of music that developed from ragtime that used syncopated rhythms and improvisation

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Jazz

35
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New Orleans native who moved to Chicago and introduced Jazz

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Louis Armstrong

36
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the most famous nightclub in Harlem

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The Cotton Club

37
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composer who got his start in the cotton club

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Edward “Duke” Ellington

38
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the empress of the blues

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Bessie Smith

39
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a style of music that evolved from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound

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Blues

40
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the first African American representative in Congress

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Oscar DePriest

41
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founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

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Marcus Garvey

42
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paid the price for the sins of the world

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Jesus Christ

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