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Chapter 20
Chapter 20
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History
11th Grade
06/01/2008

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Demographics
Definition
Statistics that describe a population (race, income etc.)
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Cotton Club
Definition
One of Harlem's 500 jazz clubs
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Mass Media
Definition
Print, film, and broadcast methods of communicating info
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
African-American cultural movement in the U.S. in NYC.
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Barrios
Definition
Spanish-speaking neighborhoods
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Fundamentalism
Definition
Traditional Christian ideas about Jesus, fundamentalists agreed that God inspired the Bible so it cannot contain contradictions or errors.
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Lost Generation
Definition
A group of people disconnected from their countries and it's laws
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Jim Thorpe
Definition
Football star and Olympic athlete during the 1920's
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Zora Hurston
Definition
came to New York in 1925 and became an anthropologist and gained fame as a writer
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Lyrical poet and playwright; first women to win Pulitzer Prize
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Warren G. Harding
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took over after Wilson, he signed peace treaties with Germany, Austria and Hungary after the war
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Charles Lindbergh
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First man to fly from New York to Paris
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Duke Ellington
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An arranger, composer, and band leader whose works are still played today
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Herbert Hoover
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Passes the Lever Food and Fuel control to mange the production and distribution of foods and fuels vital to the war effort
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