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UShist 6.3
Quiz Practice
Term | Definition |
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Lost Generation | pessimistic American Authors who wrote of the despair of World War I and the shallow materialism of the prosperous 1920's |
Sinclair Lewis | "Lost Generation Author" satirized the materialism of the American middle class |
Congress | The NAACP tried to get them to pass legislation against racial discrimination in the 1920's |
Langston Hughes | most famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance |
Marcus Garvey | founder of the Negro Improvement Association supported the "back to Africa" movement before he was deported from the US |
Expatriate | is someone who, by choice, lives outside of his home country |
Ku Klux Klan | was a group that wanted to rid America of all "impure" people |
NAACP | an organization working for justice and equality for blacks |
African Americans | a goal of the NAACP was to make people aware of crimes against ________ |