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18 Cards in this Set
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Kellogg Briand Pact |
an agreement between nations proposing peaceful solutions to conflicts signed after World War one |
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flappers |
young woman who challenged the traditional ideas of womanhood in the 1920s |
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Red Scare |
a widespread fear of communism and communists |
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21st amendment |
an amendment to the Constitution that ended prohibition |
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fundamentalism |
a religious belief characterized by a literal interpretation of the Bible |
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
a scandal under the Harding administration in which government officials were accused of taking bribes to allow the mining of oil from federal lands |
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talkie |
a film that includes sound |
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Jazz Age |
a name for the decade of the 1920s based on the popularity of jazz music |
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Harlem Renaissance |
a period of artistic achievement during the 1920s |
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great migration |
a period of african-american movement from the south to northern cities |
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Warren G Harding |
Warren Harding was the 29th president of United States in a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate. In the United States Senate, he played a minor role. |
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Calvin Coolidge |
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States. As a Republican lawyer from Vermont Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. |
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Herbert Hoover |
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer, and was raised as a Quaker. |
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Ernest Hemingway |
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical style had a strong influence on the 20th century fiction. His life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. |
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Charles Lindenberg |
Charles Augustus Lindenberg was nickname Flynn, lucky Lindy, and the Lone Eagle. He was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. |
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Marcus Garvey |
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, jr., ONH, was a Jamaican political leader publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and coriander. He was a staunch proponent for the black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. |
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Langston Hughes |
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then new literary art form called jazz poetry. |
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Georgia O'Keeffe |
Georgia todo keith was an American artist. For New Years Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keefe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. |
