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47 Cards in this Set
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Beginning with World War I, the shirt of African American population was called
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The Great Migration
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Besides the right to vote, the Indian Citizenship Act, gave to Indians
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legal protection
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What type of music emerged from the Mississippi delta region?
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the blues
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A fashionable young lady of the 1920s was a
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flapper
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The process of returning to a peacetime economy is called
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demobilization
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What city was the center of African American achievement in the 1920s?
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Harlem
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A form of buying on credit was
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installment plan
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Many Fundamentalists disagreed with Charles Darwin's
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theory of evolution.
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The law passed by Congress to enforce the 18th Amendment was the
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Volstead Act.
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A fear of a communist revolution in the U.S. led to the
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Red Scare.
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Farewell to Arms
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Ernest Hemingway
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Early movie theaters charged admission of a nickel and were called
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nickelodeons
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"Father of the Blues"
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W.C. Handy
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Harlem Renaissance poet
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Langston Hughes
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The Model T was
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Ford's most famous car.
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The 1920s scandal involving Albert Fall and government oil fields was called
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Teapot Dome.
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Which amendment made the "transportaion, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages" illegal?
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18th
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The purpose of the National Origins Quota Act was
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to limit immigration.
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Fear and hatred of foreigners was called
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xenophobia
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"America's Sweetheart"
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Mary Pickford
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In the 1920s, many young Americans moved out of the country to live, especially to France. They were called
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expatriates.
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Olympic gold medal winner in 1912
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Jim Thorpe
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The 19th Amendment gave the right to vote to which group?
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women
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A famous woman aviator was
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Amelia Earhart
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"Steamboat Willie"
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Mickey Mouse
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People who supported Prohibition were called
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drys
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An _________ wants to destroy all government.
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Anarchist
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Because this type of music was popular, the 1920s are often called the
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Jazz Age.
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What group of Americans most missed out on the prosperity of the 1920s?
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farmers
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To end Prohibition, which amendment was added to the Constitution?
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21st
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Nations signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact agreed to outlaw
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war
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The Spirit of St. Louis was
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Lindbergh's plane
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Nations meetingin Washington agreed to limit the size of their
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navies
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Anarchists and immigrants convicted of murder and robbery, they were executed in the electric chair of Massachusetts.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Who was the Attorney General who ordered raids in immigrant neighborhoods?
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Homerun hitter
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Babe Ruth
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A film with sound was called a
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talkie
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The first woman to swim the English Channel was
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Gertrude Ederle
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Jazz trumpeter known as "Satchmo"
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Louis Armstrong
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Author who captured the spirit of the Jazz Age
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A place to buy illegal alcohol during Prohibition was a
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speakeasy
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"Empress of the Blues"
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Bessie Smith
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Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic alone?
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Charles Lindbergh
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What happened to high school enrollment in the 1920s?
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dramatically increased
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Ohio President with many scandals in his administration
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Warren Harding
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Fear of another war led many countries to agree to limit their weapons which is called
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disarmament
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"The Tramp"
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Charlie Chaplin
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