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Helen wills

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Tennis player

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Flapper

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Rebellious young woman

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Bill Tilden

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Tennis player

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Bobby Jones

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Golfer

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Jack Dempsey

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Boxer

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Johnny wise miller

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Actor Tarzan

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Greta Garbow

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Actress

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John Barrymore

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Actor

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Little Tramp

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Charlie Champlin

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It Girl

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Clara Bow

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Jellyroll Martin

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Jazz musician

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Ernest Hemingway

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Writer novelist

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Credited with automobile

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Henry Ford

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Henry Ford invented what?

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Moving assembly line

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Nute Rockney

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Notre Dame football coach

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Famous aviator

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Charles Lindbergh

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Bakelite

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First commercial plastic

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Technological development changed advertising forever?

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Radio

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Bolshevik

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Russian communist

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Vladimir Lennon

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Leader of Blosheviks

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Xenophobia

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Fear of change (immigrants)

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A. Mitchell Palmer

Cabinet position

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Palmer raids attorney general

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Sacco and venzetti

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2 Italian immigrants who were executed

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Immigration act of 1920s

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Designed to keep immigrants from Eastern Europe out of America

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18th amendment

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Prohibition

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Volsted act

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Designed to enforce prohibition

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Bootlegger

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Illegally transported manufactured and sold alcohol

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Blind pig

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Illegally sells liquor

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King of Chicago

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Al Capone

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19th amendment

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Women’s right to vote

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Bugs Moran

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Chicago gangster

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Republican candidate in 1920 promised a return to normalCy

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Harding

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Harding sect of commerce who became president

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Hoover

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Cabinet pos. Andrew Melon

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Sec. Of treasury

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Trickle Down Theory

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Use money for interest
Produce more product
People in bottom get money

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Teapot dome scandal

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Naval oil reserves leased to private companies

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Who took the fall for teapot dome scandal

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Albert fall

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President of US in 1925

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Coolidge

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1928 democrat nominated governed of New York. Catholic

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Al smith

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Repunlican candidate 1928

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Hoover

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Famous female aviator

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Arehart

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Washington naval conference

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Reduce size of worlds navy

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Intention of Kellogg Briand pack of 1928

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Outlawed war

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Red scare

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Communist revolution

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Reparations

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Payment for damages

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How and why did society change

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The lost generation, back fire off prohibition, jazz age, women competing for jobs, spending more then they had etc etc

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