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4  Radical communists led by V.I. Lenin, who seized power in Russia

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6 The deportation of suspected radicals, justified by broad powers granted to the government during wartime

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12 In 1927 his solo flight over the Atlantic made him a national hero

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15 Disillusioned author who wrote The Great Gatsby

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17 Became law in 1919 with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment

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20 1923-issue 50 million mark banknote. Worth approximately $1 US when printed, this sum would have been worth approximately $12 million nine years earlier. The note was practically worthless a few weeks later due to continued inflation.

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22 The easiest way to get alcohol during Prohibition was actually legal. This was by way of prescriptions. A doctor would be paid a set amount of money to prescribe a certain amount of liquor a day. Prohibition

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26 Made further cuts by limiting immigration from any nation to two percent of its representation in the 1890 census.

27 Ellis Island “Very quickly, the gateway to the promised land had all but slammed shut.”

28 Promised to return the country to “Normalcy”

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30 Granted Women’s Suffrage in the United States

31 Women celebrate the passage of the � 19th Amendment granting them the right to vote: Aug 26, 1920.

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37 America’s best known gangster during the prohibition Era.

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41 Most famous jazz Musicians of the 1920s. (List 3)

42 Bessie Smith Louis Armstrong

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48 Post WWI Problems Russian Revolution Urban Riots Violent Labor Strikes _________ Problems faced by the US after World War I

49 Or Bomb scares and actual bombings

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54  What factors contributed to the Red Scare?  How did Americans react to the havoc that followed World War I?  How did the views of W.E.B. Dubois and Marcus Garvey differ?  Identify at least three things that contributed to a new American popular culture in the 1920s.  How did Prohibition affect the nation?


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