Us History Chp 13 Voc-Griswold

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Flapper

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1920's term to describe a new type of young woman, rebellious, energetic and bold

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19th Amendment

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Gave women the right to vote

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Cloche

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Close fitting hat of the 1920's

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Demographics

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Statistics that describe a population such as data on race or income

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Great Migration

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Movement of African Americans from the rural South to the industrialized North during and after World War I

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Barrio

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Spanish speaking neighborhood

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Charles Lindbergh

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Aviator, made the first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927

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Spirit of St. Louis

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The plane Charles Lindberge flew across the Atlantic

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Amelia Earhart

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First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Died while trying to fly around the world.

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Jack Dempsey

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Heavyweight boxing champion of the 1920's

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Jim Thorpe

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All American Athlete, football player, Olympic Gold medalist, Baseball player, 1st President of the National Football League

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George Herman "Babe" Ruth

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Baseball player, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankess, 714 homeruns

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Gertrude Ederle

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First woman to swim across the English Channel

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Cecil B. DeMille

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Early Hollywood movie director

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Mass Media

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Print, film and broadcase methods of communicating information to large number of people

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The Jazz Singer

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The first sound film, starring Al Jolson

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Greta Garbo

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Glamorous star of the silver screen

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Charlie Chaplin

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Famous comedian of the early movie era, known as the "Little Tramp"

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KDKA

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First commercial radio station

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Jazz Age

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Name for the 1920's. It came from the style of music known as Jazz

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Cotton Club

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Famous club in Harlem where people listened to jazz

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Jelly Roll Morton

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Jazz pianist encouraged improvazation in his group giving the music a smooth modern sound

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Benny Goodman

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"King of Swing" His big band sound was popular with whites

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Duke Ellington

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Popular jazz player know to his compositions, at least 1000 Blue Harlem and Bojangles

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Louis Armstrong

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Jazz trumpet player

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The Charleston

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Famous dance of the 1920's could be danced with a partner, in a group or alone

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George Gershwin

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Music composer, Rhaposody in Blue

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Georgia O'Keefe

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Art teacher at WT, famous 1920's artist know for desert paintings

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Sinclair Lewis

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Novelist, wrote about American society "Elmerbantry"

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Lost Generation

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A group of people disconnected from their country and its value

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Writer, may have created the flapper culture, The Great Gatsby

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Gertrude Stein

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Writer living in Paris coined the term Lost Generation

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Harlem Renaissance

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African American literary awakening in 1920's - rebirth of African American children

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Langston Hughes

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Harlem Renaissance writer and poet, wrote about the joys of being black

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Prohibition

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18th Amendment. Prohibited the sale of manufactruer of alcohol

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Bootlegging

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Illegal manufacturing and sale of alcohol

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18th Amendment

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Prohibited the manufacturer and sale of alcohol in 1920

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Speakeasies

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Bars that operated illegally

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Al Capone

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Most notorious of gangsters "Scarface", ruthless criminal convicted of tax evasion and sent to prison in 1931

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J. Edgar Hoover

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Head of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

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Bureau of Investigation

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Later called FBI, focused on preventing organized crime

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Fundamentalism

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The belief that God inspired the Bible and that it cannot contain contradictions

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Scopes Trial (who did it involve and what was it about)

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John T Scopes-a science teacher,
William Jennings Brynn-lawyer
Clarence Darrow-lawyer
It was a court case over the right to teach evolution

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"Red Summer"

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Summer of 1919 mob violence erupted in 25 cities between blacks and whites

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The Garvey Movement

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Led by Marcus Garvey. It was an attempt to encourage African Americans including moving them back to Africa

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Russian Revolution

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March 1917. Bolsheviks takeover russia. Kill the Czar and his family

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Vladimir Lenin

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Bolshevik leader of Russia, Offered peace land and bread to Russians

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Communism

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Political belief used by Soviet Union
1. Government ownership of all land, property. 2. Single party control of the government 3. Lack of individual rights 4. Call for world wide revolution

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Harding's Secretary of Interior, Albert Fall, secretly gave oil drilling rights in government oil fields in Elk Hill, California and Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Fall received 300,000 in illegal payments & gifts disguised as loans

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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15 nations pledged not to use the threat of war in their dealings with one another, 60 nations eventually joined

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Gross National Product

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The total value of all goods and services, produced in a country annually

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Assembly Line

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Manufacturing process in which each worker does one specialized task in the construction of the final product

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Speculation

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The practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return

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Buying on the margin

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An option that allows investors to purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price and borrow the rest