The Roaring Twenties
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- 2. American aviation pioneers credited with making the first succesful airplane
- 3. international conference called by the United States to limit the naval arms race in the 20ś
- 9. an American attorney and politician who served as the 50th United States attorney general from 1919 to 1921
- 11. American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition
- 13. the 29th president
- 15. a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups
- 18. an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929
- 19. the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970
- 20. deregulation, civic engagement, and isolationism
- 21. moral panic provoked by fear of the rise of leftist ideologies
- 22. an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, he also wrote the Great Gatsby
- 23. murder trial in Massachusetts
- 24. a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior
- 25. a trial on weather or not evolution should be taught in schools
- 26. an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935
- 27. a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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- 1. limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States
- 4. founder of the Ford Motor Company,and business magnate
- 5. an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
- 6. legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933
- 7. outlawed war as an instrument of national policy and the second called upon signatories to settle their disputes by peaceful means
- 8. manufacturing process in which parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation
- 10. an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri
- 12. a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity
- 14. the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century
- 16. he made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris
- 17. a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923