The Roaring twenties Flashcards

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Warren G. Harding

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29th president of the USA

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Calvin Coolidge

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Vice president and became 30th president when he took over for Warren G. Harding

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James M. Cox

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46th and 48th governor of Ohio

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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32nd president of us

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Andrew Mellon

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United States financier and philanthropist

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Oil discovered

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Albert Fall

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Went to jail for oil scandals

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John W. Davis

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English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war

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Henry Ford

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Came up with the model T

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Model T

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Fords Vehicel

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Moving Assembly Line

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Where people work together to assemble something

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Herbert Hoover

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31 President of the USA

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Nellie Taylor Rose

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First Woman Governor

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Miriam “Ma” Ferguson

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First female goverener of Texas

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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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a peirod of genral fear for communist

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Communism

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a political theroy

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Palmer Raids

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attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists

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Nicola Sacco

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United States anarchist

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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was convicted of murder and in spite of worldwide protest was executed

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ACLU

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American Civil Liberties Union

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National Origins Act of 1924

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2 percent for any given nationality

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Eighteenth Amendment

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an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920

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Prohibition
the action of forbidding something
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Volstead Act
known informally as the Volstead Act, ended 18th ammendment
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Al "Scarface" Capone
was an American gangster
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Twenty-first Amendment
which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol
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traditional
existing in or as part of a tradition
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Fundamentalism
A form of religon
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Aimee Semple McPherson
Canadian-American Pentecostal
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John T. Scopes
Tennessee high school teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution
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Scopes Trial
formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas
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Great Migration of the 1920's
was the movement of 6 million African-Americans
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NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States
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Marcus Garvey
was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur
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LULAC
League of United Latin American Citizens
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National Broadcasting Company
NBC
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Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
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Talkie "The Jazz Singer"
singing and speech in several isolated sequences
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Charlie Chaplin
was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film
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Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
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Mary Pickford
Film Producer
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George Herman Ruth
George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons
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Satchel Paige
American Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball pitcher
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Josh Gibson
American Negro league baseball catcher
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Gertrude Ederle
American competition swimmer
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Charles Lindbergh
nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator
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Amelia Earhart
first woman to fly over the atlantic ocean
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology
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Roaring 20's
Term for Western society and Western culture during the 1920s
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Jazz Age
was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression
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Innovation
the action or process of innovating
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Edward "Duke" Ellington
was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader
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Harlem Renaissance
was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920
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Langston Hughes
American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri
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Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short story writer, and journalist
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Lost Generation
the generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I
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expatriates
a person who lives outside their native country
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer
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Georgia O'Keeffe
American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers