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23 Cards in this Set
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The Jazz Age |
A term for the 1920s |
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Talkies |
Movie stars who could be heard talking in movies |
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Charles Lindbergh |
First pilot to fly across the ocean |
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"Monkey Trail" |
Clarence Darrow faces off against William Jennings Bryan in the Dayton, Tennessee trial of schoolteacher John Scopes who taught an evolution class |
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Henry Ford |
Mass produced Model T with the assembly line |
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The Jazz Singer |
First movie with sound |
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Flapper |
A young liberated women who drank, smoked, cut her hair (bob), wore make-up and had sex |
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Clarence Darrow |
Legendary defense lawyer from Chicago |
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Model T |
Ford automobile |
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Louis Armstrong |
American jazz trumpeter and singer Nickname: Satchmo or Pops |
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Sigmund Freud |
Psychoanalysis who stated in order to have a happy mental life, you must also have a happy sexual life |
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Installment Plan |
Enabled people to buy goods over an extended period of time |
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Federal Highway Act |
Developed an immense national highway system |
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Babe Ruth |
Legendary baseball player who offered baseball with the homerun |
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The "It" Girl |
Clara Bow had "it" which is what every other female wanted to be like and every male wanted |
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Aaron Douglas |
African American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance |
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Lincoln Highway |
First transcontinental highway for automobiles across the US |
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Ty Cobb |
American MLB outfielder Nickname: The Georgia Peach |
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Marcus Garvey |
Crested UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) |
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Langston Hughes |
Premiere literature writer of the 1920s |
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Nickelodians |
A movie theater that cost a nickel for admission |
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Cecil B DeMille |
Movie director who followed similar plot in all his movies |
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Harlem Renaissance |
a.k.a New Negro Movement |
