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25 ID

Saco and Vanzetti- Italian-born US anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery

George Gershwin- Jewish composer whom merged popular concert music with American jazz

Duke Ellington- Jazz pianist & composer

Hemingway- wounded in World War I, became the best-known expatriate author. In his novels The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, he criticized the glorification of war.

Fundamentalism- The Protestant movement grounded in a literal, or nonsymbolic, interpretation of the Bible

Sinclair Lewis- the first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature, was among the era’s most outspoken critics. In his novel Babbitt

Prohibition- The banning of alcoholic beverages

Harlem Renaissance- a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.

Speak Easies- Hidden Saloons and nightclubs that would contain illegal alcohol

Installment Plan- Enabled people to buy goods over a period of time without paying up front

Clarence Darrow- Defended Scopes during the Scopes Trial

Bessie Smith- Female blues singer became the highest paid black artist by 1927

Louis Armstrong- Trumpet Player

George O'Keefe- Painter

Scopes Trial- Fought over the role of Science and religion in public schools

Flapper- An emancipated young woman whom embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day

Double Standard- A set of principles granting greater sexual freedoms to men over women

Ohio Gang- The presidents poker-playing cronies

Quota System- Limits the amount of immigrants into a country per year

Calvin Coolidge- president

Henry Ford- Founder of Ford

What was the most commonly purchased household item on credit? Radio


10 Written Questions

-Changes for women in the 1920s

-Installment Plan (what was it, how it changed ho Americans usually handled money)
People could now "buy now and pay later". It allowed people to buy more expensive goods and pay it off over a period of time. The ,pat commonly purchased household item for this was the radio.

-Presidents of the 1920s (names, political parties, years in office)
Warren Harding (21-23) died from heart attack during office, scandals, Republican
Calvin Collidge (23-29) Republican
Herbert Hoover (29-...) Republican

-Charles Lindbergh (how he reconciled and personified the modern and traditional (modern technology but traditional American attributes and values))
He flew the first solo manned plane across the Atlantic (to Paris) and was seen as a milestone for modern technology that someone could do that and also showed traditional American values of determination

-Baseball and babe Ruth in the 1920s

-Prohibition

-Urbanization of the 1920s (how did this process change American society)

-Music of the 1920s (Duke Ellington and George Gershwin)

-Saco and Venzetti .doc we did in class

-Klan document we did in class

-Scopes Trial (what happened and why significant(still happens today))
Scopes was caught teaching evolution in a Tennessee school, which was illegal at the time. He was defended by Clarence Darrow and was fined $100 when found guilty, but was later repealed and was not guilty.

-Political scandals during the Harding Administration)
Harding's administration used its power to gain wealth through political scandals. For example, the head of the veterans bureau was caught illegally selling government and hospital supplies to private companies. Most well-known is the Teapot-dome scandal. His Secretary of the Interior was caught selling these oil reserves for the US Navy to private companies for pure profit.