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24 Cards in this Set
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manufacture sale and transportation of alchoholic beverages were prohibited
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prohibition
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hidden saloons and nightculbs
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speakeasies
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person who smuggled alcholic beverages to us
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bootleggers
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protestant movement grounded in a literal or nonsymbolic interpretation of bible
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fundamentalism
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most famous trial lawer of the day
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clarence darrow
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fight over evolution and role of science and religion in public schools and in am history
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scopes trial
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emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day
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flapper
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set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women
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double standard
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made first nonstop solo flight across atlantic
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charles a lindbergh
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concert music composer who merged traditional elements w/ am jazz
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george gershwin
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produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of ny
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georgia o keeffe
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first am to win a nobel peace prize in literature
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sinclair lewis
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author who coined the term jazz age to describe 20s
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f scott fitzgerald
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wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from contraints
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edna st vincent millay
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traveled with theatre company and struggled to top of afam literary society
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zora neale hurston
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poet lawyer and naacp executive
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james weldon johnson
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immigrant from jamacia that believed that AFAM should build a sep society
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marcus garvey
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literary and artistic movement celebrating AFAM culture
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harlem renaissance
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novelist poet and jamacian immigrant that urged AFAM to resist prejudice and discrimination
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claude mckay
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harlmes best known poet
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langston hughes
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son of one time slave that became dramatic actor
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paul robeson
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trumpet player from new orleans creole jazz band with oliver
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louis armstrong
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jazz pianist and composer that led to 10 peice orchestra at cotton club
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edward kennedy duke ellington
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female blues singer that was outstanding vocalist of decade
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bessie smith
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