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15 Cards in this Set
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Kellogg-Braind Pact
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an agreement between nations proposing peaceful solutions to conflicts, signed after World War I
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flappers
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young women who challenge traditional ideas of womenhood in the 1920s
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Red Scare
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a widespread fear of communism and Communists
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Twenty-first Amendment
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an amendment to the constitution that ended prohibition
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fundamentalism
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a religious belief characterized by a literal interpretation of the Bible
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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a scandal under the Harding administration in which government officials were accused of taking bribes to allow oil to be mined from federal lands
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talkie
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a film that includes sounds; another name for movies
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Jazz Age
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a name for the decade of the 1920's based on the popularity of jazz music
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Harlem Renaissance
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a period of artistic achievement during the 1920's
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Great Migration
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a period of African-American movement from the South to cities in the North
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Warren G. Harding
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Twenty-ninth president; he was a republican president who protected alcohol interests and moderately supported women's suffrage
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Calvin Coolidge
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Thirtieth president; led the nation through the roaring twenties and cleaned up the rampant corruption of the Harding administration
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Herbert Hoover
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Thirty-first president; seven months after being elected in office, the stock market crashed ending the "Roaring Twenties" and the economic boom of that decade and starting the Great Depression
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Ernest Hemingway
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a writer who called World War I "the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that had ever taken place on earth." He gained fame for his powerful and direct writing style
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Charles Lindbergh
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a pilot who completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, travelling from New York to Paris
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