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18 Cards in this Set
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Kellogg-Briand Pact |
an agreement between nations proposing peaceful solutions to confl icts, signed after World War I |
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1. flappers |
young women who challenged traditional ideas of womanhood in the 1920s (p |
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1. Red Scare |
a widespread fear of communism and Communists ( |
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1. 21st Amendment |
(1933) an amendment to the Constitution that ended Prohibition |
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1. fundamentalism |
a religious belief characterized by a literal interpretation of the Bible |
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1. Teapot Dome scandal |
a scandal under the Harding administration in which government offi cials were accused of taking bribes to allow oil to be mined from federal lands |
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1. talkie |
a fi lm that includes sound |
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1. Jazz Age |
a name for the decade of the 1920s based on the popularity of jazz music |
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1. Harlem Renaissance |
a period of artistic achievement during the 1920s |
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1. Great Migration |
period of African American movement from the South to cities in the North |
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Warren G. Harding |
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate, where he played a minor role. |
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Calvin Coolidge |
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. |
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Herbert Hoover |
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer, and was raised as a Quaker. |
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Ernest Hemingway |
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. |
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Charles Lindbergh |
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. |
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Marcus Garvey |
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH, was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to ... |
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Langston Hughes |
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. |
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Georgia O’Keeffe |
Was well known for her detailed paintings of flowers and of the Southwest. |
