20's Vocab and Identification

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Combination of ragtime, African rhythms, and blues

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Time of radical societal and cultural change in America

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Period of hysteria over communism, Bolshevik, and radical groups in American society

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Economic system where property and production is privately owned and controlled

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President associated with widespread corruption

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Using precise measurements and studies to increase business productivity

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Famous for being 1st to fly solo from North America to Europe

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Term referring to President Harding’s cabinet and advisors

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Ban on sale, manufacture, and consumption of alcohol

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Theory that present life forms develop and mutate from earlier life forms

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Their guilt in murder and robbery are still disputed today

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“Hands Off” style of handling the economy and business.

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Free-spirited women of the 1920’s

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Agreement to never attack, only use force to defend

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Appointed by Harding to Cabinet, later became President in 1928

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Racist organization that grew in size and popularity in the 1920’s

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Made cars affordable for more Americans.

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African-American jazz trumpeter

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Production method where each worker has only one job to do

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Criminal that rose to power due to Prohibition and bootlegging

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1st Catholic to ever get nominated to run for President; lost in 1928 to the Republican

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President that supported big business; nickname was “Silent”

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Explosion of African-American musical, artistic, and literary talent

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Belief that America should stay out of foreign affairs

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Media form first commercially broadcast in 1920.

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The total dollar value of all products and services produced in one country in one year

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Illegal manufacture and sale of alcohol

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Famous, troubled writer of the 1920’s; veteran of WWI

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Albert Fall was arrested for illegally leasing government land to oil companies

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Economic downturn

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Amount of work each worker can do

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Smaller, periodic payment plan

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Women Suffrage

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Radio, newspapers, reporters, photographers, movies, music, etc.

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Jazz trumpeter from Davenport, IA

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Female flyer of 20’s and 30’s

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Americans living abroad due to their disappointment in their own country

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This 1921 incident is considered the single worst occurrence of racial violence in American history when white citizens attacked the black neighborhood of Greenwood, setting fires and killing dozens of its residents.

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