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Twenties People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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