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The Roaring Twenties Flashcards

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Warren G. Harding

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He was the 29 president of the united states

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Calvin Coolidge

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he was the 30 president of the united states

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James M. Cox

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he was the 46th and 48th governor of ohio

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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he served as the 32nd president of the united

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Andrew Mellon

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he was appointed secretary of the treasury by president warren g. harding

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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it was a bribery incident that took place in teapot dome

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Albert Fall

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he was the united states senator from new mexico

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John W. Davis

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he was a solicitor general of the united states

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Kellog-Briand Pact

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it was an international agreement to not use war for disagreements

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Henry Ford

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he made the model T and created the assembly line

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Model T

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it was an automobile produced by henry ford

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Moving Assembly Line

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it was a manufacturing process

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Herbert Hoover

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he served as the 31st president

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Alfred E. Smith

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he was governor of new york 4 times

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Nellie Tayloe Ross

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she was the 14th governor of Wyoming

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Miriam “Ma” Ferguson

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first female governor of texas

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flappers

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a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying

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red scare

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The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants

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communism

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society in which all property is publicly owned

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Palmer Raids

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it was a series of raids conducted by the united states

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Nicola Sacco

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he was Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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he was Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster

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ACLU

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non-profit organization whose stated mission is “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country

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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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it established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States

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Prohibition

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the action of forbidding something

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Volstead Act

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it established prohibition in the United States

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Al “Scarface” Capone

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he was an american gangster, and co-founder and boss of the chicago outfits

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Twenty-first Amendment

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it repealed the 18th amendment

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Traditional

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customs or beliefs

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Fundamentalism

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a form of a religion

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Aimee Semple McPherson

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she was famous for founding the Foursquare Church

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John T. Scopes

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was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee

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Scopes Trial

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it was an American legal case in May 1925

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Great Migration of the 1920’s

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was the movement of 6 million African-Americans

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NAACP

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is a civil rights organization founded in 1909

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Marcus Garvey

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he was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement

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LULAC

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

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National Broadcasting Company

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is an American commercial broadcast television network

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Columbia Broadcasting System

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is an American commercial broadcast television network

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talkie “The Jazz Singer”

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it is a 1927 music film

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Charlie Chaplin

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he was an English comic actor

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Douglas Fairbanks

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he was an American actor

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Mary Pickford

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she was a prolific Canadian-American film actress and producer

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George Herman Ruth

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he was an American professional baseball

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Satchel Paige

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Paige was an American Negro league baseball player

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Josh Gibson

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Gibson was an American Negro league baseball player

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Gertrude Ederle

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Ederle was an American competition swimmer

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Charles Lindbergh

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was an American aviator, military officer

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Amelia Earhart

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Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

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Sigmund Freud

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he was founder of psychoanalysis

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Roaring Twenties

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It was a period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States

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Jazz Age

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was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular

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innovation

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the action or process of innovating

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Edward “Duke” Ellington

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bandleader of a jazz orchestra

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Harlem Renaissance

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it was considered to be a rebirth of African-American arts

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Langston Hughes

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He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry

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Ernest Hemingway

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he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954

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Lost Generation

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a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years

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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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A twentieth-century American author known for his short stories and for his novels

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Georgia O’Keeffe

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she was an American artist

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