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1920's
Question | Answer |
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Charles Lindbergh | first pilot to fly across the Atlantic from the US to France in 1927. His plane was called The Spirit of ST. Louis. |
William Jennings Bryan | ran for president three times and lost. He was a lawyer in the Scopes Trial. He did not want students learn evolution in school. |
Clarence Darrow | He was a lawyer who represented Teacher, Mr. Scopes for teaching evolution in school. |
Henry Ford | made automobiles using the assembly line and made cars inexpensive so that many Americans could afford cars. |
Harlem Renaissance | writers and musicians celebrate and motivate African Americans in the 1920's in New York. |
Red Scare | a fear that swept the United States in the 1920's. There was a Communist revolution in Russia and communism was beginning to spread across the world |
Prohibition | Americans could not drink or make alcohol in the 1920's. |
Xenophobia | fear of foreigners in the United States |
Sacco and Vanzetti Case | two Italians were convicted of a crime and executed because they protested against American government. |
Great Migration | between 1910-1930 two million blacks left the southern United States and moved to the northern United States |
Scopes " Monkey" Trial | school teacher had to go to trial in 1925 for teaching his class about evolution and humans are related to Monkeys. |
Langston Hughes | African American poet and writer during the Harlem Renaissance |
Marcus Garvey | Believed in Blacks owning their own businesses, and blacks going back to Africa |
Flappers | Women who wore make-up, cut their hair, and wore short dresses |
Return to Normalcy | President of the United States Warren Harding between 1921-23, wanted America to focus on American issues and not get involved in foreign affairs. |