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| What was the "fight of the century"? | A radio-aired boxing match involving Dempsey and Tunney that was announced by Graham McNamee. A few listeners actually died of heart failure
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| Why did school enrollments go up in the 1920s? | Prosperous times, and higher educational standards for industry jobs.
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| What was a reason that schools improved in the 1920s? | Taxes for education went way up
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| What things helped contribute to mass news coverage? | Magazines; many local nespapers were swallowed up by big city newspapers
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| What new thing did radio networks create in the US? | The shared national experience of hearing news right as it happened
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| What became a norm in the 1920s? | Fads. Crossword puzzles, changing clothes, egyptian jewelry, heroes like baseball players
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| Who was America's most beloved hero? | Charles Lindbergh, a small town pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight across the atlantic. he was handsome and honest Minnesotan.
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| What boosted movie attendance in the late 1920s? | "Talkies" or films with sound (Walt Disney came about at this time) nearly doubled movie theatre attendace
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| Who was George Gershwin? | A composer who mixed traditional music elements with American jazz, creating a purely American sound
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| Who were Georgia O'Keefe and Edward Hopper? | Artists who captured America as a place of realities and dreams. O'Keefe produced very colorful pieces portraying New York.
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| Who was Sincalir Lewis? | The first American to win a nobel prize in literature after his novel Babbit came out. Babbit criticized conformity and materialism.
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| Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald? | revealed the negative side of the gaity and happiness of the 20s.
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| Who was Edna St. Vincent Millay? | A poet who was the opposite of Fitzgerald, her poems celebrated the youth and vivacity found in the 20s.
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| Who was Ernest Hemmingway? | A writer, veteran of WWI, who wrote about the negative effects of the glorification of arms.
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