Roaring Twenties

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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