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Twenties People
Question | Answer |
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Empress of the Blues | Bessie Smith |
Wrote of surface gaiety and impending doom; author of This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Sported new fashions and a freer style of living | Flappers |
Ran for the presidency in 1924 as a third party candidate on the Progressive Party ticket | Robert La Follette |
Wrote of Americans in Europe during World War One based on his own experiences | Ernest Hemingway |
Believed that government and business should not interfere with each other; said "The man who builds a factory builds a temple." | Calvin Coolidge |
Spokesman for "Negro nationalism;" said that blacks should return to Africa | Marcus Garvey |
Biology teacher tried for teaching evolution | John T. Scopes |
Led the prosecution in the Scopes Trial; died a week later | William Jennings Bryan |
Revolutionized industry with mass production and the assembly line; paid his workers $5 a day so they could afford the cars they made | Henry Ford |
Stood for a "Return to Normalcy;" died on a speaking trip | Warren G. Harding |
Engineer and humanitarian who mobilized the economy in WWI and led aid efforts to Europe after the war; Commerce Secretary under Coolidge; unfortunate in his timing to become president | Herbert Hoover |
Popular evangelist who preached revivalism; emphasized individual faith rather than church doctrines | Billy Sunday |
Most famous man of the age; electrified the public by flying across the Atlantic in 1927 | Charles Lindbergh |
Most famous attorney of the age; defended Scopes | Clarence Darrow |
Governor of New York; son of Irish immigrants; first Catholic to run for the presidency; lost to Hoover in 1928 | Al Smith |
Leader of organized crime in the period | Al Capone |
Most famous Harlem Renaissance writer; poet and short story writer' expressed the despair of blacks and demanded social justice | Langston Hughes |
Acerbic journalist and critic of mass culture; chronicled the Scopes Trial | H. L. Mencken |
Head of the United Mine Workers, who led a strike against the coal mine owners | John L. Lewis |
Female Evangelist who used Hollywood-style techniques in the church she founded; disappeared and reappeared in a very sketchy scandle | Aimee Semple McPherson |