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MIni Jazz Age Flashcards

1
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Having the right to vote in 1920 women sought to break free from_________-

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Traditional roles

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2
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____________,_________,and______________ became linked to successful marriages.

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  1. Romance
  2. pleasure
  3. freindship
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3
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_______________ theories also affected people’s ideas about relationships expecialy his theories about human sexuality.

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Sigmund Freud

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4
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Some women known as flappers_____1____,___2________,___3________,__4__________

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  1. smoked cigarettes
  2. drank prohibited liquor
  3. wore makeup
  4. and sleeveless dresses with short skirts
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5
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________________ research led to a dramatic drop in the death rates of TB

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Florence Sabin

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________________ believed that families could improve their standard of living by limmiting the number of children they had.

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Margret Sanger

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Margret Sanger founded the _________________ in 1921 to promote knowledge about birth control.

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American Birth Control League

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8
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Birth control increased dramatically particularly in the _________

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middle class

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9
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Many people joined a religious movement known as _____________

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Fundamentalism

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Fundamentalist believed the Bible was ___1____and they rejected _____2____theory of evolution.

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  1. literally true and without error

2. Charels Darwin’s

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_________the scientific theory that humans and other forms of life have evolved over time.

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Evolution

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Fundamentalists would embrace_________

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creationism

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____________is the belief that God created the world and everything in it usually in the way the bible descibed it.

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creationism

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________________advertised for a teacher willing to be arresd for teaching evolution

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

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____________ a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, volunteered.

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John T Scopes

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16
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At the trial_____________- a three time presidential candidate was the prosecutor representing the creationist.

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William Jennings Bryan

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___________ one of the country’s most celebrated trial Lawyers defended Scopes

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Clarence Darrow

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18
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The _______went into affect in January 1920 which prohibited the manufacture and or sale of alcohol

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18th amendment

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19
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The _____- gave the U.S. Treasury Department the power to enforce Prohibition.

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Volstead Act

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20
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In the 1920s ______________agents made more that 540k arrest but Americans still ignored the law

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Treasury Department

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21
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People would flock to _______ which were places where alcohol beverages are sold illegally

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speakeasies

22
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_________was readily availible in rural areas through bootlegging the illegal production and distribution of alcohol

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Liquor

23
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______________ one of the most successful and well known gangsters of the era had many police officers judges and other officials on his payroll.

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Al Capone

24
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The _______ratified in 1933 repealed the 18th amendment.

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21st amendment

25
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Many artist writers and intellectuals flocked to Manhattan’s _______________ in the Chicago ‘s South Side.

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Greenwich Village

26
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Among the great writers of the time was ________ who wrote novels about war and its aftermath such as A Farewell to Arms

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Ernest Hemingway

27
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______criticized society’s superficiality in the Great Gatsby

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F.Scott. Fitzgerald

28
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IN 1927 the golden age of hollywood began with the first talking picture the ___________

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Jazz Singer

29
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Famous songwriter ___________ worked in NYC’s Tin Pan Alley where composers wrote popular music

A

Irving Berlin

30
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Berlin’s famous songs included ____1____ and ____2___

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  1. Putin on the Ritz

2. White Christmas

31
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The most popular comedy of the time was ___________- a radio show where the trouble of two african american characters capture the nations attention

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Amos and Andy

32
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Baseball stared ____________ was a national hero even though he was a drunk

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Babe Ruth

33
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Fans also idolized boxer ____1___________ who was world heavyweight champion from 1919-1926 when he lost his title to _______2________

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  1. Jack Dempsey

2. Gene Turiney

34
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College footballs most famous player of the 1920s was _________ of the university of Illonios and was known as the Galloping Ghost

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Red Grage

35
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________was the best golfer of the decade

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Bobby Jones

36
Q

Night clubes and music filled the northern cities particually the NYC neighborhood of __________

A

Harlem

37
Q

Artistic development racial pride and political organization combined in a flower of african american arts knowns as the ______________

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Harlem Renassance

38
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________ was the first important writer of the Harlem Renassance

A

Claude Mckay

39
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In 1922 Mckay’s poetry collection ___________ expressed a pruod difiance and biter contempt of racism`

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Harlem Shadows

40
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_______________was a protific original versatile writer

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Langston Hughes

41
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________________ became a leading voice of the African American experience in America

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Langston Hughes

42
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New Orleans native _________________ moved to Chicago in 1922.

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Louis Armstrog

43
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_______ was an American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and that used syncopated rhythms and improvisation.

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jazz

44
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Composer, pianist, and bandleader _______________ got his start at the Cotton Club the most famous nightclub in Harlem.

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Edward Duke Ellington

45
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______________ symbolized soul and became known as the Empress of the Blues.

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Bessie Smith

46
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Bessie Smith sang of ____________,_____________, and __________ classic themes of the blues.

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unfulfilled love poverty and oppression

47
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_____________ was a style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound.

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blues

48
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In 1928 African American voters in Chicago helped elect ____________ as the first African American representative in Congress from a Northern State.

A

Oscar DePriest

49
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A dynamic leader from Jamaica _________ captured the imagination of millions of African Americans with his Negro Nationalism

A

Marcus Garvey

50
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Garey founded the ______________________ aimed at promoting black pride and unity.

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Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

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