Flashcards in Vocab Deck (15):
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19th amendment
Had voting rights and enforcement on it the voting rights mean they could vote if they were a man or a woman and enforcement meant congress could have the power to enforce articles .
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21 amendment
It had on it 18th amendment repealed and liquor allowed by law and those meant the 18th amendment was taken away and liquor was allowed
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Langston Hughes
Was a Harlem renaissance writer and wrote poems , plays ,and novels about African American life.
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Marcus Garvey
Encouraged black people around the world to express there pride in there culture .
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Red scare
A time of fear of communist or reds
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Calvin Coolidge
He was a senator in Ohio the American people were hoping fora new hope for a new candidate I believe he was republic
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Lost generation
Writers who criticized American society in the 1920 thus became known as the lost generation
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Teapot dome scandal
Got bribed to give control over government oil reserves in elk hills California and tea pot home. Albert fall got bribed
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Louis Armstrong
He sang songs and was basically in his own band.
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Hoover
Herbert Hoover was a president and decided not to run for reelection in 1928
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Georgia o Keffe
She was a artist that lived most of her life in New Mexico
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Harlem renaissance
The Harlem renaissance was when African American came into Harlem and started a period of artistic accomplishment
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Flapper
Flappers are young women who cut their hair short and wore makeup and challenged ideas of how women were supposed to be
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Expatriate
People who leave their home country to live somewhere else
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