9.3

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In the 1920s _________ allowed people all over the country to listen to the same programs.

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national radio network

Front

The Jazz Singer was the first _____________, or motion picture with sound.

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talkie

Front

An explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade the nickname of the __________.

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Jazz Age

Front

_____________ was a trumpet player known for his method of stepping out from the band to perform a solo.

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Louis Armstrong

Front

The period of African American artistic accomplishment in the 1920s was known as the _____________.

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Harlem Renaissance

Front

___________ was a famous writer who produced poems, plays, and novels about African American life.

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Langston Hughes

Front

Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s became known as the ___________.

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Lost Generation

Front

In Paris in the 1920s, there was a community of American __________, or people who leave their home country to live elsewhere.

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expatriates

Front

_____________'s novel The Great Gatsby focused on what he saw as a loss of morally behind the fun and free-spirited times of the Jazz Age.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Front

Sinclair Lewis became the first American to receive the __________ in literature.

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Nobel Prize