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| show | sprung from postwar disillusionment among young artists, writers, and intellectuals, as new technologies, new modes of transportation and communication, and new scientific discoveries combined to rupture perceptions of reality, challenge old modes of thou
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| Sacco and Vanzetti | show 🗑
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| show | 1916 book by Madison Grant that argued that the great race of the Nordics of northern Europe was threatened by the Slavic and Latin people of eastern and southern Europe, outlining a pseudo scientific racism that bolstered postwar nativist sentiments and
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| show | Quota law that reduced the number of immigrants to 2 percent of the foreign-born of any nationality based on the 1890 census, which included fewer of the "new" immigrants; this law set a permanent limitation, which became effective in 1929, of slightly ov
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| show | Anti-modernist Protestant movement started in the early twentieth century that proclaimed the literal truth of the Bible; the name came from The Fundamentals, published by conservative leaders.
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| show | Former secretary of state who became a fundamentalist leader whose following, prestige, and eloquence made the movement a popular crusade; in 1921 Bryan sparked a drive for laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution in the public schools, and in 1925 he s
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| John T. Scopes | show 🗑
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| show | Renowned Chicago trial lawyer and confessed agnostic who was the defense attorney in the Scopes "monkey" trial of 1925; he ultimately lost but the ruling was merely a gesture and was overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court on a technicality.
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| show | Period between the Eighteenth Amendment of 1919, the prohibition amendment that made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages illegal, and the Twenty-first Amendment of 1933, which repealed the prohibition.
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| show | Prohibition amendment of 1919 that made illegal the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
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| show | Enforced the prohibition amendment, beginning January 1920.
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| show | Baltimore journalist who wrote for the Smart Set and American Mercury and was merciless in his attacks on small-town life and the hinterlands.
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| show | 1920 novel of student life at Princeton by F. Scott Fitzgerald that depicted the revolution in manners and morals during the Jazz Age, evidenced first among young people and especially on the college campuses.
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| American Birth Control League | show 🗑
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| Carrie Chapman Catt | show 🗑
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| show | Amendment to guarantee equal rights for women, introduced in 1923 but not passed by Congress until 1972; it failed to be ratified by the states.
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| Claude McKay | show 🗑
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| show | Author whose novel Cane, which pictured the lives of simple folk in Georgia's black belt and the sophisticated African-American middle class in Washington, D.C., was perhaps the greatest single creation of the Harlem Renaissance.
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| show | Leading spokesman for "Negro nationalism" in the 1920s, which exalted blackness, black cultural expression, and black exclusiveness, and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.
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| Universal Negro Improvement Association | show 🗑
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | show 🗑
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| show | Principle, developed by German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, which stated that atoms were ultimately indescribable; one could never know both the position and the velocity of an electron because the very process of observation would inevitably affe
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| show | Experimentalist poet and expatriate who was an early champion of modern art and one of the chief promoters of modernist prose style.
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| show | The earliest chronicler of the Jazz Age generation, who became successful and famous at an early age with novels such as This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Great Gatsby.
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| show | Writer who cultivated a public image caught up in the frenetic, hard-drinking lifestyle and the cult of athletic masculinity that are hallmarks of his novels such as Death in the Afternoon (1932), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940
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| show | Literary movement of the 1920s and 1930s that included such writers as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, and Robert Penn Warren.
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| Thomas Wolfe | show 🗑
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| show | Southern Renaissance writer who wrote about the fictional town of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, in novels such as Sartoris (1929) and The Sound and the Fury (1929).
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