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18 Cards in this Set
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Kellogg-Briand Pact |
General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy |
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Flappers |
New bread of young Western women in 1920s who wore short skirts and drugger |
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Red Scare |
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents |
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21st Amendment |
An amendment to the Constitution that ended Prohibition |
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Fundamentalism |
A form of a religion especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict |
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
Bribery incident that took place in the U.S. from 1921-1924 |
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Talkie |
Movie with soundtrack |
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Jazz age |
Age term coined by f. Scott Fitzgerald, a feature of the 1920's( ending with the Great Depression) |
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Harlem Renaissance |
Name given to the cultural, social, artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of ww1 and mid 1930's |
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Great Migration |
The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern us to the urban northeast, Midwest, and west |
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Warren G. Harding |
29th president of the United States a republican from ohio |
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Calvin Coolidge |
30th president of the U.S. Republican lawyer from Vermont |
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Herbert Hoover |
31st president of the U.S. professional mining engineer |
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Ernest Hemingway |
American author and journalist in which his economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th century |
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Charles Lindbergh |
American aviator,author,inventor,military officer,explorer and social activist |
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Langston Hughes |
American poet,social activist,novelist, playwright, columnist |
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Georgia O' Keffe |
American painter of nature and the southwestern landscape |
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Marcus Garvey |
Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist,entrepreneur |
