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Roaring 20s Flashcards

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19th amendment

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Women have the right to vote

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21st amendment

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18th amendment repealed meaning alcohol is legal

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Langston Hughes

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An African American who wrote poems plays and novels

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Marcus Garvey

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Jamaican born talented speaker who tried to make an independent economy

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Red scare

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A time of fear of communists

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Georgia O’Keefe

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Famous artist with unique paintings

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Harlem Renaissance

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A period of artistic achievement during the 1920s

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Flapppers

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Young woman who challenged traditional ideas of women hood in the 1920s

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Scopes trial

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Science teacher tries to teach evolution but is put to trail

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Great migration

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Large numbers of African Americans from the south move to the north

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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In 1928 the US and 14 other nations signed this pact to outlaw war

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Anarchy

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The opposition of government

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Talkies

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Motion picture with sound

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Herbert Hoover

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Republican nominee for 1928

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Calvin Coolidge

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President of the US from 1924-1928

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Lost generation

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Writers who criticized the American society in the 1920s

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Teapot dome scandal

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Secretary Albert fall accepted bribes from private oil companies in exchange for control of oil reserves

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Louis Armstrong

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A jazz musician in the 1920s who experimented with music

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Expatriate

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People who leave their home country to live elsewhere

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Moving assembly line

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This system used conveyer belts to move parts to workers to another

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Emergency Quota act

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Limited the amount of immigrants that could enter the country

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Model T

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A car made in 1908 by ford that was affordable and stable

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Henry Ford

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A car manufacturer in the early 1920s

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Prohibition

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The government outlawed alcohol

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