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15 Cards in this Set
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Flappers |
Young women known as flappers 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 |
Otlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, went into effect in1920 |
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Fundamentalism |
Characterized by the belief in a literal, or word for-word, interpretation of the BIble |
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Scopes Trial |
Im May 1925 a Dayton, Tenessee, high school science teacher named John T. scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution in what became known as the Scopes Trial |
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Great Migration |
During WW1 large numbers of African A ericans 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 |
Harlem Renaissance writers included Langston and Claud McKay, Hughes produced poems, plays,mans novels about African American life |
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Jazz Age |
An explosion in the popularity of Jazz music gave the decade another nicknamem Jazz Age |
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Harlem Renissance |
A period of African MaericN aristic accomplishment |
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Lost Generation |
Writers who criticized Anerican society in the 1929s thus became known as the Lost Generation |
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Model T
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Ford achieved his goal by building a sturdy and reliable car called the Model T, nicknamed the Tin Lizzie
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Warren G. Harding
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A senator from Ohio
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Calvin Coolidge
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A governor of Massachusetts
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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. In exchange, Fall allowed
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