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U.S. History Unit 3 Flashcards

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  1. Extractive economy
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Imperial country takes raw materials from their colonies

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  1. Imperialism
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The policy by which strong nations extend their political, military,and economic control over weaker territories

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  1. Alfred T Mahan
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A military historian and an officer in the US Navy

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  1. Fredrick Turner
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A historian who used the frontier for resources

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  1. Mathew Perry
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Sailed a fleet of American warships into present day Tokyo bay , Japan

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  1. Queen Lilioukalani
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Hawaiian nationalist who abolished the constitution that gave power to whites

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  1. Jose Marti
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Cuban patriot who launched war for independence from Spain.

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  1. Yellow press
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Newspapers that featured a comic called the yellow kid

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  1. Jingoism
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Aggressive nationalism

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  1. George Dewey
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Commodore who fought war against Spanish. He quickly won

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  1. Rough riders
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Rugged westerners and upper class easterners created by Theodore Roosevelt

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  1. Treaty of Paris
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Ended war between Spain and US. Gave US control of Cuba Puerto Rico and Guam

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  1. Insurrection
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Another name for rebellion

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  1. Guerilla warfare
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Non traditional fighting technique where enemies are flanked secretly

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  1. William Howard Taft
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Future president of US and past president of Philippines

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  1. Spheres of influence
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.a region dominated and controlled by an outside power

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  1. Boxer rebellion
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Violence started by members of a secret society in China, which prompted the governments of Europe and America to send troops to squash the rebellion

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  1. Open door policy
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American statement that the government did not want colonies in China but favored free trade there

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  1. Gentlemens Agreement
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Pact between the United States and Japan to end segregation of Asian children in san fransico public schools. Japan agreed to limit immigration to US

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  1. Great white fleet
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Battleships sent by Roosevelt in 1907 on a good will cruise around the world

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  1. Foraker Act
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Law establishing a civil government in Puerto Rico

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  1. Platt Amendment
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Set of conditions under which Cuba was granted independence in 1902, including restrictions on rights of Cubans and granting the US the right to intervene to keep peace in Cuba

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  1. “Big stick” diplomacy
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Theodore Roosevelt policy of creating and using when necessary a strong military to achieve Americas goal

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  1. Panama Canal
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Human made water way linking the Atlantic to the pacific across the isthmus of Panama

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  1. Roosevelt Corolly
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Theodore Roosevelts reassertion of the Monroe doctrine to keep the western hemisphere free from European intervention

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  1. Dollar diplomacy
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President tafts policy of expanding American investments abroad

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  1. Moral diplomacy
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Woodrow Wilsons statement that the US will not use force to assert influence in the world, but to promote human rights

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  1. Francisco “Pancho” Villa
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top military leader of the Mexican Revolution

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  1. Militarism
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Glorification of the military

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  1. Francis Ferdinand
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Archduke of Austria este and Austria Hungary

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  1. Western front
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Battle front between the allies and central powers in Western Europe during world war 1

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  1. Casualty
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Soldiers killed, wounded and missing

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  1. Contraband
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Supplies captured from an enemy during war time

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  1. U-boat
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German submarine

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  1. Lusitania
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British passenger liner sunk by a German u-boat during ww1

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  1. Zimmerman note
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Telegram written by German foreign minister Zimmerman proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the US during ww1

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  1. Selective service act
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Act passed by congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service

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  1. Bernard Baruch
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Influential Wall Street broker who reported directly to the president

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  1. Committee on public information (CPI)
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Educate the public about the causes and nature of the war

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  1. George Creel
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Director of CPI

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  1. Conscientious objector
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A group who resisted the draft by means of religious or moral beliefs

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  1. Espionage act
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Allowing postal authorities to ban treasonable or seditious newspapers magazines or printed materials

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  1. Great migration
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Movement of blacks from rural south to industrial north

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  1. Convoy
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Groups of merchant ships sailed together, protected by warships

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  1. Vladimir Lenin
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Staged revolution and gained control of Russia

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  1. John J. Pershing
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Commander of American forces in Europe

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  1. Fourteen points
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Americas war aims

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  1. Self determination
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Right of people to choose their own form of government

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  1. League of Nations
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A group of nations that secured mutual guru tees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike

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  1. Henry Cabot Lodge
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Senator and republican foreign policy expert

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  1. Reparations
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Payment for war damages

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  1. Irreconcilables
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Isolationist senators who opposed any treaty ending ww1 that had a League of Nations folded into it

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  1. Reservationists
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A group of senators, led by Henry Cabot lodge, who opposed the treaty of Versailles, to end ww1, unless specific changes were included

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  1. Influenza
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Flu virus

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  1. Inflation
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Rising prices

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  1. Red scare
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Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life

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  1. Palmer raids
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The series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer against suspected radicals and communists

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  1. Sacco and Vanzetti
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Italian immigrants and anarchists who killed people during a factory shooting

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  1. Warren G. Harding
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Rejected by the League. Republican candidate from Ohio

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  1. Creditor Nation
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Country which is owed more money by other nations than it owes other countries

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  1. Henry Ford
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Creator of the model-T

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  1. Mass Production
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Production of goods in large numbers though the use of machines and assembly lines

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  1. Scientific Management
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Approach to improving efficiency, in which experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, money and effort.

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  1. Assembly Line
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Arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation until it is finished

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  1. Consumer Revolution
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Flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after world war 1

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  1. Installment Buying
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Method of purchase in which buyer makes a small down payment, then pays off the rest in regularly monthly payments

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  1. Bull Market
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Period of rising stock prices

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  1. Buying on Margin
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System of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest

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  1. Andrew Mellon
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Secretary of treasure appointed by warren g Harding

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  1. Herbert Hoover
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31st president

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  1. Teapot Dome Scandal
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Harding administration scandal in which the interior secretary leased government oil reserves to private oilmen for bribes

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  1. Calvin Coolidge
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30th president

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  1. Dawes Plan
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US loan e money to Germany so that they could pay off war debts

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  1. Kellog-Briand Pact
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1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war

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  1. Modernism
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Artistic and literary movement sparked by a break with past conventions

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  1. Fundamentalism
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Movement or attitude stressing st it and literal adherence to a set of basic principles

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  1. Scopes Trial
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1925 trial of a Tennessee school teacher for teaching darwins theory of evolution

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  1. Clarence Darrow
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American lawyer who led the American civil liberties union

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  1. Quota System
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Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries

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  1. Ku Klux Klan
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Organization that promotes hatred towards specific ethnic and religious group

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  1. Prohibition
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The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol

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  1. 17th amendment
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The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote

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  1. Volstead Act
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Law enacted by congress to enforce the 18th amendment

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  1. Bootlegger
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One who sells illegal alcohol

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  1. The Jazz Singer
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First movie with sound synchronized to the action

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  1. Babe Ruth
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Face of American baseball

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  1. Charles Lindenburg
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American aviator who made the first solo flight

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  1. Flapper
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Young woman from the 20’s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dressing

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  1. Sigmund Freud
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Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis

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  1. Lost Generation
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Term for American writers of the 20’s marked by disillusion with ww1 and a search for sense of meaning

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  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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American short story author

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  1. Ernest Hemmingway
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American novelist and short story writer

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  1. Marcus Garvey
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Proponent of the black nationalism and pan-africanism movement

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  1. Jazz
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Genre of music that originated from black communities during late 19th and early 20th century

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  1. Louis Armstrong
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Jazz trumpeter and considered one of the most influential jazz artists of all time

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  1. Bessie smith
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Jazz vocalist who was given the name “empress of the blues”

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  1. Harlem Renaissance
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The Harlem Renaissance 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

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  1. Claude McKay
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Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet best known for his novels and poems, including “If We Must Die,” which contributed to the Harlem Renaissance

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  1. Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

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  1. Zora Neal Hurston
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Anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance before writing her masterwork, ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God.’

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