Vocab 11- The Jazz Age

1. Raised as a waif in New Orleans, I was a forefather of Jazz and improvisational solos playing coronet and trumpet. “…And I think to myself…what a wonderful world…” Who am I?

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As Attorney General of the United States, I led America through its first Red Scare. I ignored much of the Constitution on my Communist witch hunt.

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Looking to the Bible and not science, this was a backlash against the changing culture of the United States during the 1920s. Today, this voting group is typically associated with the GOP.

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After the Russian Revolution and the increase in Russian and Eastern European immigrants in the United States, this period of fear and panic swept the United States during the early 1920s.

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One of America’s greatest composers and band leaders, I grew up in Washington, D.C. I composed over one thousand pieces of music; I did my part for uniquely American music.

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This sensational trial of the 1920s pitted a science teacher against the state of Tennessee and took place in Dayton, Tennessee. At issue was the teaching of evolution and the culture clash of the 1920s.

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The first Republican President of the 1920s, I promised Americans a “return to normalcy” following WWI.

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These two Italian immigrants were sentenced to death in Massachusetts on circumstantial evidence. Their court case became a national example of the return of nativism and the effects of the Red Scare. They are the subject of a series of famous American artist Ben Shahn paintings.

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The (scar) face of organized crime, I ran the bootlegging ring in Chicago.

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Collectively, we are the modern women of the 1920s. We wear short skirts, bobbed haircuts, listen to jazz, and don’t follow the cultural norms of our mothers.

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