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18 Cards in this Set
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Flappers |
Women men who cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses, openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave |
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Red Scare |
A time of fear of communists, or reds |
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18th amendment |
Made illegal to sell, transport, or manufacture alcohol |
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Fundamantalism |
Characterized by the belief in a literal, or word for word, interpretation of the bible |
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Scopes trail |
A school teacher was put on trail for teaching about evolution |
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Great Migration |
During ww1 large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories |
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Expatriates |
People who leave their home country to live elsewhere |
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Langston Hughes
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Harlem renaissance writers. Produced poems, plays, and novels about his African American life |
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Jazz age |
Am explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade another nickname--- the jazz age |
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Harlem Renaissance |
A period of African American artistic accomplishments |
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Lost generation |
Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s |
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Warren G. Harding
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A senator form ohio
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Calvin Coolidge
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Harding's running mate
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Involved secretary of the interior Albert fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies
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Model T
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Ford achieved his goal by building a sturdy and reliable car
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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An agreement that outlawed war
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Moving assembly line
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This system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another
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Herbert Hoover
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The party chose his secretary of commerce
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