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32 Cards in this Set
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Clarence Darrow |
Lawyer for ACLU in the Scopes Trial -on the side of Scopes/evolution |
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Al Capone |
Chicago Mobster -controlled illegal alcohol coming in from Canada -defeated by Elliot Ness' untouchables |
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Charles Lindbergh |
Lucky Lindy first man to fly solo across atlantic ocean later america first spokesman |
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Jim Thorpe |
athlete-versatile-olympic gold medals in many events |
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Herman Babe Ruth |
Baseball player, broke HR record |
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Red Grange |
Galloping Ghost=college Football |
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Sinclair Lewis |
Jazz Age writer Main Street, Arrowsmith, Babbit |
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Ernest Hemingway |
Expatriot, Lost Gereneration-for whom the bell tolls, A Farewell to Arms |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
The Great Gatsby-quintessential writer of the '20s |
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WEB Dubois |
AA leader, helped found the Niagara movement and NAACP wanted the right to vote before anything else |
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Marcus Garvey |
Black Nationalism outside of the US in Africa, started the UNIA, Universal Negro Improvement Association -mail fraud |
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Calvin Coolidge |
Silent Cal, president friendly to business-the man who builds a factory builds a temple |
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John L. Lewis |
Union leader, led the United Mine Workers (UMW) and later the Congress of Industrial Organizations |
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Karl Marx |
Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto-the father of Communism |
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Nikolai Lenin |
Communist leader for the Bosheviks |
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A. Mitchell Palmer |
US attorney General, oversaw the Palmer Raids on suspected radicals in the red scare |
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Warren G. Harding |
US President from 1921-1923 Jekyll and Hyde Cabinet Teapot Dome |
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Andrew Mellon |
Secretary of the Treasury during the '20s |
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Herbert Hoover |
President during the 1st part of the depression |
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Albert Fall |
Secretary of the Interior during Warren G. Harding's presidency, sent to jail for Teapot Dome |
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Henry Ford |
founder of Ford Motors, assembly line |
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J. Edgar Hoover |
Assisted in Palmer Raids head of the FBI changed FBI report to show communist plot to please Herbert Hoover in Bonus Army |
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Douglas MacArthur |
Bonus Army, US General in command of the Philippines WW2 |
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Dwight Eisenhower |
assistant to MacArthur in Bonus Army |
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George Patton |
assistant to MacArthur in Bonus Army |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Pres. of US from 1933-1945 3 terms |
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
Wife of FDR civil rights activist Marian Anderson Tuskegee Airmen |
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Harry Hopkins |
Work Relief unofficial new dealer early in FDR's presidency Supervised -Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) -Civil Works Administration (CWA) -Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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Harold Ickes |
FDR's Sec'y of Interior |
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Frances Perkins |
FDR's Sec'y of Labor |
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Joseph P. Kennedy |
wealthy banker, later the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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Dr. Francis Townsend |
1 of the 4 Demagogues |
