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

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Laura Ganassa
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Flappers
Jazz Age
Great Migration
Teapot Dome
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The _____ _______ is the fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.
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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).
Gertrude Stein
Ethel Waters
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zora Neale Hurston
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American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
WEB DuBois
Ethel Waters
Duke Ellington
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Langston Hughes is:
African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music.
African American pianist, composer, arranger, and band leader from New Orleans.
African American writer who wanted to save African American folklore. She traveled across the South collecting stories.
Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI.
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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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An artist from New Orleans who bridged the gap between the piano styles of ragtime and jazz, and was the first important jazz composer.
Langston Hughes
Ethel Waters
Jelly Roll Morton
Duke Ellington
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