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10 Cards in this Set
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What famous trial took place during the 1920s?
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The Scottsboro case took place in 1931.
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The 1920s flapper, with her thin silhouette, shortish skirt, long necklace, bobbed hair, & bee-stung lips was epitomized by who?
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Clara Bow was the quintessential flapper.
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After landing in Paris in 1927 after his nonstop solo flight from New York, what were Charles Lindbergh's words?
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"I am Charles A. Lindbergh."
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How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit in the 1927 season to break the major league record?
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60. Ruth was later surpassed, of course, by home run champs McGwire & Sosa.
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Which of these figures did not live in Paris during the twenties?
William Faulkner Josephine Baker Gertrude Stein |
William Faulkner lived a long, secluded life in Oxford, Mississippi.
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When was the 19th Amendment (granting women suffrage) passed?
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Woman's suffrage was first granted by Wyoming in 1869, followed by the constitutional amendment in 1920.
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What scandal took place in the 1920s?
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The Teapot Dome, an oil reserve scandal, began in 1921.
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What famous device was invented in the 1920s?
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Hubert C. Booth invented the electric vacuum cleaner in 1901.
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On what day did the stock market reached its absolute nadir during the crash of 1929?
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The event was nicknamed Black Tuesday.
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What famous film debut was in the twenties?
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James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein.
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