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a celebration of African-American culture in literature and artThe Harlem Renaissance
This black nationalist association was founded by Marcus Garvey.Universal Negro Improvement Association
Among the founders of this association was W.E.B. DuBois.National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
became the highest-paid black artist in the worldBessie Smith
performed in Shakespeare's "Othello"Paul Robeson
In many of her novels, books of folklore, poetry, and short stories, this writer portrayed the lives of poor, unschooled Southern African Americans.Zora Neale Hurston
This jazz pianist and composer won fame as one of America's greatest composers. He wrote such pieces as "Mood indigo" and "Sophisticated Lady"Duke Ellington
This trumpet player's astounding sense of rhythm and ability to improvise has led many to consider him the single most important and influential musician in the history of jazz.Louis Armstrong
This artist produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York.Georgia O'Keefe
Gene Tunny defeated this former heavyweight champion in what was called the "fight of the century".Jack Dempsey
He was a small town pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.Charles A. Lindbergh
This composer merged traditional elements of music with American jazz.George Gershwin
This writer's poems celebrated youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional restraints.Edna St. Vincent Millay
In "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby", this novelist portrayed wealthy people leading hopelessly empty lives.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wounded in World War I, this writer criticized the glorification of war and introduced a tough, simplified style of writing that set a new literary standard.Ernest Hemingway
The first American to win a Nobel prize for literature, he used the character in "Babbit" to mock Americans for their conformity and materialism.Sinclair Lewis
Famous home-run sluggerBabe Ruth
Dominated women's tennisHelen Willis
After World War I, many female college graduates entered "women's professions", such as _____ and nursing.teaching
While some 10 million women were in the workforce by 1930, few had risen to _____ positions.managerial
In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first ______ clinic in the countrybirth-control
A number of women in the 1920s displayed their new sense of freedom by _____ and drinking in public.smoking
Women in the 1920s experienced greater freedom through the help of technological innovations that simplified _____household labor
increased during the 1920sthe crime rate
stricter social and moral standards for women than for men in the 1920sDouble standard
This was defended at the Scopes trialcreationism
He was called as a witness in the Scopes trialWilliam Jennings Bryan
someone who provided illegal alcoholbootlegger
One of the effects of this was a rise in organized crimeProhibition
The American Civil Liberties Union hired him to represent John T. ScopesClarence Darrow
This was an "underground" salon or nightclub where liquor was sold illegallyspeakeasy
industry that did not prosper during the 1920sfarming
mode of transportation that began as a mail carrying service for the U.S. Post Officeairplane
president who said "the chief business of the American people is business"Calvin Coolidge
called for the abolition of private property in order to equally distribute wealth and powercommunism
The Teapot Dome scandal centered aroundoil-rich lands
In 1928, fifteen nations signed the _____, which renounced war as a national policy.Kellog-Briand Pact
Under the _____, American investors loaned Germany billions of dollars to pay its war reparations to Britain and France.Dawes Plan
As president, Warren G. Harding favored a limited role for government in _____ and social reform.business affairs
_____, a member of Harding's so-called Ohio Gang, was caught illegally selling government and hospital supplies to private companies.Charles R. Forbes
As Harding's secretary of treasury, _____ set about cutting taxes and reducing the national debt.Andrew Mellon
This established the maximum number of immigrants who were allowed into the U.S. from each foreign countryquota system
Although its membership sharply increased as a result of the Red Scare and nativism, its power declined once its criminal activity and racial violence became exposedKu Klux Klan
This is a policy of abstaining from involvement in world affairs.isolationism
This is an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictator.communism
Their radical opposition to any and all forms of governmental led many with similar beliefs to be harassed, arrested, and deported during the Red Scare.anarchists
As Attorney General, he sent government agents out on a series of illegal raids to hunt down suspected radicals.A. Mitchell Palmer
As the governor of Massachusetts during the Boston Police strike, he opposed the strikers and called out the National Guard to restore order.Calvin Coolidge
As president of the United Mine Workers, he led the miners on a strike that eventually resulted in a significant wage increase.John L. Lewis


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