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136232486Red Scarea period of general fear of communists0
136232487KKKterrorist group of white southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting1
136232488Sacco and Vanzettiwere two italian born american laborers and anarchists who were tired convicted and executed via electrocution on Aug 3 1927 in Ma for the 1920 armed robbery. it is believed they had nothing to do with the crime2
136232489Teapot Domea government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 19213
136232490Scopes Monkey Trial1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism4
13623249119th Amendmentgave women the right to vote5
13623249218th AmendmentProhibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages6
13623249321st Amendmentrepeal of prohibition7
136232494Prohibitionthe period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment8
136232495Speakeasyillegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition9
136232496Bootleggersomeone who makes or sells illegal liquor10
136232497Anti-Semitismprejudice against Jews11
136232498Buying on MarginPurchasing stock with a little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future12
136232499Installment Buyinga system for paying for goods by installments13
136232500Harlem Renaissancea period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished14
136232501Spirit of St. Louissingle engine plane in which Lindberg made the first transatlantic flight15
136232502The Jazz SingerThe first "talkie"16
136232503St. Valentines Day MassacreAl Capone's orchestrated attack against rival gangster "Bugsy" Moran in Chicago17
136232504W.E.B. Dubois1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 191018
136232505Marcus GarveyLeader who called for a return to Africa to form a separate nation there19
136232506Charles LindbergAmerican hero who was the first to fly solo from New York to Paris20
136232507Louis ArmstrongFamous trumpet player during the Jazz Age21
136232508Jack Dempseywas the most famous heavy-weight boxing champion of the 1920s. he helped make boxing a big money sport.22
136232509Charlie ChaplinThe name of a famous movie comedian in the 1920s23
136232510Gertrude Ederlyfirst swimmer to cross the English Channel24

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