Roaring Twenties

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Name for the 1920s, because of the popularity of jazz-a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime

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Jazz Age

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The _____ _______ is the fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.

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Red Scare

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Part of the "lost generation" of American modernists, her Paris apartment was a pilgrimage site for authors, painters, etc. (incl. Picasso, Hemingway, and others).

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Gertrude Stein

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American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

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WEB DuBois

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Langston Hughes is:

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African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music.

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What is the first name of Fitzgerald's wife? She was an artist and flapper who challenged traditional values in the 1920's.

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Zelda

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An artist from New Orleans who bridged the gap between the piano styles of ragtime and jazz, and was the first important jazz composer.

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Jelly Roll Morton

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A Norwegian expressionist artist who is most famous for "The Scream."

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Edvard Munch

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A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company.

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Teapot Dome