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Roaring Twenties Flashcards

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Warren G. Harding

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was the 29th President of the United States.

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Calvin Coolidge

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was the 30th President of the United States.

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James M. Cox

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was the 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States

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Andrew Mellon

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was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician.

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.

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Albert Fall

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was a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding

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John W. Davis

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was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer.

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Kellog-Briand Pact

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is a 1928 international agreement

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Henry Ford

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was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company

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Model T

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First model automobile

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Moving Assembly Line

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is a manufacturing process

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Herbert Hoover

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was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States

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Alfred E. Smith

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was an American statesman who was elected Governor of New York four times

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Nellie Tayloe Ross

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was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927

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Miriam “Ma” Ferguson

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was the first female Governor of Texas, serving from 1925 to 1927 and 1933 to 1935.

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flappers

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a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

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Red Scare

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is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism.

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Communism

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property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

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Palmer Raids

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were a series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice to capture, arrest and deport suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.

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Nicola Sacco

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were Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920 armed robbery

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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were Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920 armed robbery

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ACLU

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is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose stated mission is “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.”

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National Orgins Act of 1924

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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas

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Eighteenth Amendment

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banned alcohol

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Prohibition

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in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.

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Volstead Act

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banned alcohol

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Al “Scarface” Capone

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A notorious gangster

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Twenty-first Amendment

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Eighteenth amendment repeated

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traditional

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is normal

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Fundamentalism

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a form of religion

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Aimee Semple McPherson

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was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920 and 1930

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John T. Scopes

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was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act

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Scopes Trial

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John Scopes trial

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Great Migration of the 1920’s

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African Americans were moved from south to north

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NAACP

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is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of “people of color.”

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Marcus Garvey

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was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Americanism movement

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LULAC

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is the oldest surviving Latino civil rights organization in the U.S.

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National Broadcasting Company

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a TV channel

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Columbia Broadcasting System

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a TV channel

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talkie “The Jazz Singer”

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American musical film

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Charlie Chaplin

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was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film.

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Douglas Fairbanks

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was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer

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Mary Pickford

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was a Canadian-American film actress, writer, director, and producer.

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George Herman Ruth

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was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935.

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Satchel Paige

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was an American Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball pitcher who became a legend in his own lifetime by being known as perhaps the best pitcher in baseball history

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Josh Gibson

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was an American Negro league baseball catcher

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Gertrude Ederle

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was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events.

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Charles Lindbergh

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was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist

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Amelia Erhart

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Was a woman pilot

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Sigmund Freud

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was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis

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Roaring Twenties

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is a term for Western society and Western culture during the 1920s.

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Jazz Age

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was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression

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innovation

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to make better

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Edward “Duke” Ellington

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was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra

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Harlem Renaissance

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was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York

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Langston Hughes

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was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri

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Ernest Hemingway

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a writer

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Lost Generation

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Writers

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expatriates

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a person who lives outside their native country.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age.

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Georgia O’Keeffe

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was an American artist.

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