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14 Cards in this Set
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High school biology teacher arrested for teaching evolution.
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John Scopes
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Poet - Used common speech to glorify the Midwest and the expansive nature of American life through his poetry.
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carl sandburg
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served as an ambulance driver in WWI---writer whopresented new style in fiction that was direct, simple, and concise prose.
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ernest hemingway
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writer who created glamorous characters who chased their dreams ie the great gatspy
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f. scott fitzgerald
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1st important writer of harlem rn. -shock of racism in poetry
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claude mckay
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famous writer of H.R. who was as the most prolific and original
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lanston hughes
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pulishhed Jonah's gourd vine and their eyes were watching god
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zora neale hurston
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introduced jazz bcame first great solo cornet and trumpet player in jazz
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louis armstrong
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black leader who called for Negro Nationalism... glorified old black culures/traditions
founded the UNIA |
Marcus Garvey
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the president after woodrow wilson - said hed strive to achieve normalcy for Americans
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Warren Harding
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all of harding's friends he brought to DC and gave jobs in the white house
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Ohio Gang
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the secretary of the interior accused of the Teapot Dome scandal-served time in prison
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Albert Fall
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attorney general accused of bad administration (Alien Property Custoian)
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Harry Daugherty
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secretary of treasury - reduced govt. debt, tax rates and led to a stock market boom
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andrew mellon
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