Roaring Twenties

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  1. assembly line
    series of machines and workers that build step-by-step
  2. Calvin Coolidge
    elected vice president and succeeded as 30th President of the United States when Harding died in 1923 (1872-1933)
  3. Charles Lindbergh
    United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)
  4. Communist
    a member of the communist party
  5. Duke Ellington
    United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader
  6. flapper
    an unconventional young woman in the 1920s
  7. Harlem Renaissance
    a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
  8. Jazz Age
    the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism
  9. Ku Klux Klan
    a secret society of white Southerners in the United States
  10. Louis Armstrong
    United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader
  11. Nineteenth Amendment
    an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex
  12. prohibition
    the action of forbidding
  13. F. Scott Fitzgerald
    United States author whose novels characterized the Jazz Age in the United States (1896-1940)
  14. Teapot Dome scandal
    a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration
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