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14 Cards in this Set
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Louis Armstrong
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one of the brilliant young African American musicians who helped create jazz.
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Ernest Hemingway
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one of the most popular writers of the 1920s.
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F.Scott Fitzgerald
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The young writer who best captured the mood of the Roaring Twenties.
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Sinclair Lewis
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The first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1930.
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Eugene O'Neill
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Revolutionized the American theatre by shocking audiences with powerful, realistic dramas based on his years at sea.
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Langston Hughes
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The best known poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Countee Cullen
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Wrote of the expericnces of African Americans. In the 1920s, he won prizes for his books of poetry.
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Claude McKay
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Also wrote of the experiences of African Americans.
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Zora Neale Hurston
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wrote novels, essays and short stories. She grew concerned that African American folklore "was disappearing without the world realizing it had ever been."
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Babe Ruth
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The most popular baseball player of the 1920s.
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Charles Lindbergh
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On a gray morning in May of 1927, he took off from an airport in New York to fly nonstop across the Atlantic ocean- alone. When he returned to the U.S., he was named the hero of the decade.
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Fad
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activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short time.
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Flapper
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young woman in the 1920s who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting.
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Expatriate
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person who renounces his or her own country and takes up residence in a foreign land.
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