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48 Cards in this Set
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Iron horse; 1230 consecutive games
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Lou gerhig
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loaned large amounts of money to banks, railroads and insurance companies
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RFC
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brown bomber; heavyweight boxing champ from 1937-1949
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Joe Louis
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Yankee clipper; married marilyn monroe
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Joe DiMajjio
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was elected to 4 terms as president
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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composed Rhapsody in blue; swaney; and Porgy and Bess
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George Gershwin
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won 4 gold medals at 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Jesse Owens
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wrote Mainstreet
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Sinclair Lewis
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found guilty of kidnapping and murder of Lindman baby
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Bruno Houptman
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acting career spanned 75 years
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Lilian gish
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100,000 applicants offered and 6,000 jobs offered by
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Soviot Union
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winner of 1932 presidential election
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FDR
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democratic candidate for president promised people
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new deal
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Bonus army comprised of veterans of
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WW1
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led U.S. army in evicting bonus army
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Dwight Eisenhower
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popular puzzle in 1920s
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crossword
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African americans contributed in 1920s
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jazz music
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the little tramp
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charlie chaplin
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stock market crashed
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October 29, 1929
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1928 republican candidate promised
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chicken every pot and two cars in every garage
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major strike against presidential candidate Al smith
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he was catholic
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4 causes of the great depression
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uneven distribution of income
banks made unsound loans overproduction in agriculture and industry decline in forign trade |
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caused caused textile industry slump during 1920s
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flapper style clothing required less fabric
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explain the run on the banks
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they didn't make sound loans amd ran out of money so people would run to get it before they lost all their savings
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experienced land boom during 1920s
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florida
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people paid only 10% of the cost of stocks and borrowed the rest from their stockbroker bought
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on margin
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after the stock market crash who said "prosperity is just around the corner"?
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hoover
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what was the original name of the dam built as a relief project during hoover's term?
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Broulder Dam
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two lines other than employment people woild stand in
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soup
bread |
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author best captured spirit of 1920s
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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first radio station to broadcast in 1920
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KDKA
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black dancer whose style was considered to bold and suggestive so she moved to paris?
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Josephine Baker
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what was significant about the movie the "jazz singer"?
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it was the first movie with sound
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2 pieces of circumstantial evidence that led to guilty verdict in the lindman baby kidnapping/murder
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ransom money found in garage
the wood of the ladder according to a wood expert matched the wood flooring in his attic |
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what was amazing about Jesse Owens performance at the Big Ten outdoor trackmeet?
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set 3 world records; and tied 1 with a bad back
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voted best female athlete for first half of 20th century
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Babe Didrillson Zaboras
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explain how neighbors, relatives and friends would try to help a farmer who was going thru foreclosure
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they would block off the roads so no one would go to the auction, and then agree not to outbid one another. when they got the items they would give it back to the other guy
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label given to detroit during 1930s
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city of champs
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what would college students hunt for at night and how much would they earn?
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cockroaches
a peeny a roach |
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record that Joe Dimajjio set in 1941
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56 consecutive games of getting at least 1 hit
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today a person may serve no more than ___ terms or ___ years
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How did dearborn police and ford fireman stop 3,000 men from marching on one of the ford plants to present a petition
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they shot with machine guns, and released tear gas. the firemen squirted the men with the firehose
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why did people try to get arrested for vagrancy?
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they would have a place to sleep and food to eat for a night
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why couldn't some actors and acresses transition to talkies?
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they might have a thick accent or a high pitched voice for their normal roles
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why did the rancher slit the throats of 3,000 sheep rather than sending them to market?
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they would lose $010 a head
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some people would take articles of value to____ shops to grt cash for them
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pawn
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an officeholder with little influence because his term is about to end is called a
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lame duck
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the german boxer whom Joe Louis destroyed by 2:04 of the first round in 1938 was
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Max Schmelling
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