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Roaring 20's
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History
5th Grade
01/22/2019

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Roaring 20's
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Time of prosperity, The Jazz Age
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mass media
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public forms of communication to reach large audiences (commercials, movies)
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Prohibition
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ban on the sale of alcohol
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Bootleggers
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brought alcohol made in other countries in the U.S. or made their own alcohol illegally
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speakeasies
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illegal places where people drank alcohol
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18th Amendment
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complete ban on the sale, manufacturing, and transporting of alcoholic beverages
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21st amendment
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ended Prohibition
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Harlem Renaissance
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Artistic movement centered in Harlem, an African American neighborhood in New York City; caused by the Great Migration
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Duke Ellington
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African American jazz  composer, band leader, and pianist

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Louis Armstrong
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jazz musician, trumpeter

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Bessie Smith
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blues singer

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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writer, The Great Gatsby

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Langston Hughes
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African American poet

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Zora Neale Hurston
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wrote about the experiences of African American women

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Jacob Lawerence
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painted images of the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance

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Charles Lindbergh
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first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean

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Amelia Earhart
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first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

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Georgia O'Keeffe
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painter, famous for her colorful scenes of nature

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