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Chapter 12-13 Test

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George Gershwin
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Sinclair Lewis
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anarchists
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Marcus Garvey
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Bessie Smith
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Clarence Darrow
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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John L. Lewis
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Charles A. Lindbergh
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Fordney McCumber Tariff
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Calvin Coolidge
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Harlem Renaissance
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Langston Hughes
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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bootlegger
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nativism
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Albert B. Fall
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Claude McKay
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double standard
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a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women
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a female blues singer, was perhaps the most outstanding vocalist of the decade
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the new president, fit into the pro-business spirit of the 1920s very well.
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secretary of the Interior, a close friend of various oil executives, managed to get the oil reserves transferred from the navy to the Interior Department
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coined the term "jazz Age" to describe the 1920s
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the first american to win a Nobel Prize in literature, was among the Ara's most outrageous critics
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novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant, was a major figure whose militant verses urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination
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favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
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a person who opposes all forms of government
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a favoring of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community of NYC
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gained fame for merging traditional elements with american jazz, thus creating a new sound that was identifiably American
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made her yearn for a wider world
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a set of regulations, enacted by Congress in 1922, that raised taxes on imports to record levels in order to protect American businesses against foreign competition
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was the movement's best-known poet
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small town pilot, who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
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immigrant from Jamaica, believed that African Americans should build a separate society
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most famous trial lawyer of the day, to defend Scopes
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leader of the United Mine Workers of America
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produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of new york
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a person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the United States during Prohibition
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an economic and political system based on one-part government and state ownership of property
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became best known expatriate author
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a sensational 1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution.
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a jazz pianist and composer, led his ten-piece orchestra at the cotton club
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the period from 1920-1933 during which the Eighteenth Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcohol was force in the US
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urged that no more war ships be built for 10 years
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the president's poker-playing cronies, who would soon cause a great deal of depression
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the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions
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a Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true
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a system that sets limits on how many immigrants for various countries a nation will admit each year

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