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henry ford
business man
eugene o neill
writer
andrew mellon
business man
sinclair lewis
writer
babe ruth
sports figure
f. scott fitzgerald
writer
warren harding
president
calvin coolidge
president
herbert hoover
president
a new type of young women
flapper
set of religious beliefs including traditional christain ideas about jesus christ
fundamentalism
the statistics that describe a population
demographics
a spanish speaking neighborhood
barrio
supplier of illegal alcohol
bootlegger
print and broadcast methods
mass media
term used to describe the 1920s
jazz age
group of american writers in the 1920s
lost generation
african america literary awaking of the 1920s
harlem rensissance
bars that operated illegally during te time of prohibition
speakeasies
1925 court case
scopes trial