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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 WWI
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Flappers
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Young women who challenged the traditional ideas of womanhood.
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Red Scare
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A widespread fear of communism and communists
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21st Amendment
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Reapeled the 18th Amendment and ended prohibition
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Fundamentalist
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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 on federal land
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Talkie
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A film that includes sound
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Jazz Age
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A name for the decade of the 1920s based on the popularity of Jazz music
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Harlem Renaissance
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A period of artistic achievement in the 1920s
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Great Migration
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Movement of African Americans from the south to cities in the north
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Warren G. Harding
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President that led the U.S. From WWI to the roaring twenties.
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Calvin Coolidge
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President in 1924 that did many things for our nations economy.
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Herbert Hoover
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President during the Great Depression and tried but couldn't save the economy.
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Ernest Hemingway
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Writer who expressed feelings of disillusionment in American society.
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Charles Lindbergh
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First pilot to complete a nonstop flight over the Atlantic Ocean.
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