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Jazz Age/Roaring 20s
Vocabulary for Jazz Age/Roaring 20s
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6th Grade
01/12/2011

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Langston Hughes
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African American poetry writer, lived in Harlem,New York, inspired by jazz music
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Louis Armstrong
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jazz music trumpeter, African American
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Mass Media
Definition
Radio, movies, newspapers
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Babe Ruth
Definition
baseball player hit more homeruns than anyone during that time
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Charles Lindbergh
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1st to fly across Atlantic Ocean
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Amelia Earhart
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1st woman to fly, tried to fly around world but dissappeared
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Flappers
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Women who were carefree, had short bobbed haircuts, wore heavy make up & short skirts
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F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald
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expatriates, writers, husband & wife
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Installment Buying
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"90 days same as cash" a way to buy products and pay them off over a short time
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Prohibition
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not being allowed to buy, sell or make liquor
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Speakeasies
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Place that sold illegal liquour
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Jazz Age
Definition
time when jazz music was popular
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Roaring 20s
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time of changing attitudes(women could vote & dress differently(Flappers) & clashing cultures
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