The Roaring Twenties Terms

Question 1

Warren G. Harding

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he was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923.

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Calvin Coolidge

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he was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state

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James M. Cox

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he was the 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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he , was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Andrew Mellon

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he was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician. From the wealthy Mellon family of Pennsylvania, he established a vast business empire before transitioning into politics

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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it 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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he was a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal

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John W. Davis

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he was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served as a United States Representative from West Virginia from 1911 to 1913, then as Solicitor General of the United States

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Kellog-Briand Pact

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it is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.

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Henry Ford

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he is founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

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Model T

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it was th frst Ford

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Moving Assembly Line

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it is a manufacturing process

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Herbert Hoover

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he was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression

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Alfred E. Smith

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he was an American statesman who was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928

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Nellie Tayloe Ross

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she was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953

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Miriam “Ma” Ferguson

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she 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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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. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker revolution and political radicalism.

Question 19

Communism

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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Question 20

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 of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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was an anarchist, who with Ferdinando Nicola Sacco was convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927.

Question 22

ACLU

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is a nonpartisan, non-profit 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.”

Question 23

National Orgins Act of 1924

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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s

Question 24

Eighteenth Amendment

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the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal.

Question 25

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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known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States.

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Al “Scarface” Capone

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known by the nickname Scarface, was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.

Question 28

Twenty-first Amendment

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) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919. The Twenty-first Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933

Question 29

traditional

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existing in or as part of a tradition; long-established.

“the traditional festivities of the church year”

Question 30

Fundamentalism

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form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject or discipline.

Question 31

Aimee Semple McPherson

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also known as Sister Aimee or simply Sister, was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church.

Question 32

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, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.

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Scopes Trial

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as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in May 1925 in which a substitute high

Question 34

Great Migration of the 1920’s

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was the movement of 5 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1915 and 1960

Question 35

NAACP

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the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 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-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal

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LULAC

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is the oldest surviving Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanic veterans of World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United States.

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National Broadcasting Company

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is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Columbia Broadcasting System

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is an American commercial broadcast

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talkie “The Jazz Singer”

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a move in 1927

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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. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of

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Mary Pickford

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known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a prolific Canadian-American film actress 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. Baseball historians consider Gibson to be among the very best power hitters and catchers in the history of any league, including Major League Baseball.

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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. On 6 August 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

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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 an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment.

Question 50

Sigmund Freud

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was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst

Question 51

Roaring Twenties

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is a term for Western society and Western culture during the 1920s. It was a period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Western

Question 52

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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was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Harlem Renaissance

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was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars

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Langston Hughes

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was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. 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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was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations

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Lost Generation

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the generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I, 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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known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, 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. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O’Keeffe has been recognized as the “Mother of American modernism