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A novelist and chronicler of the jazz age. his wife, Zelda and he were the "couple" of the decade but hit bottom during the depression.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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where Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald first honeymooned after being married in New York City.
The Rose Club, NYC.
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a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar Red Scare sweeping the nation.
Palmer Raids
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Who sang Swanee?
Al Jolson
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Ford's sturdy low-cost automobile was named
Model-T
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First designer to make pants for women. popularized boyish style for women. Forefront of France fashion after WWI.
Coco Chanel
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a cocktail lounge on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. The interior is modelled after Paris in the 1920s
Pour Vous, Los Angeles
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The Senate refuses to ratify which treaty?
Versailles Treaty
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Who sang West End Blues?
Louis Armstrong
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women who enjoyed defying the traditional standards of female behavior
Flappers
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A leader of organized crime in Chicago in the late 1920s, involved in gambling and the illegal sale of alcohol.
Al Capone
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one of the most storied of the literary cafes throughout Paris, where famed artists like Picasso and Hemingway would congregate and talk about their work and opinions.
Les Deux Magots, Paris, France
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What amendment granted women the right to vote?
nineteenth amendment
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Who sang Crazy Blues?
Mamie Smith
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illegal/underground bars that existed during Prohibition
speakeasies
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The greatest baseball player of the 1920's. He set a record for hitting 60 home runs in one season.
Babe Ruth
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After a massive 7.8 earthquake levelled the city in the early 20th century, the entire area was rebuilt in Art Deco style.
Napier, New Zealand
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What is broadcast on radio for the first time? the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
World Series
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Who sang Matchbox Blues?
Blind Lemon Jefferson
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films with sound/speech
talkies
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Best known for his theory of relativity and his theory of energy equivalence. Received Nobel Prize in 1921 for physics.
Albert Einstein
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The club, named after a group of Philadelphia journalists who met once a month of the same name, harkens back to another time with a mahogany bar from 1892, a gilded ceiling and tiled flooring.
Clover Club, Brooklyn, New York
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What is constructed in the Bronx, New York?
Yankee Stadium
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Who sang My Man?
Fanny Brice
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time period of great musical, artistic, literary, social and political advancement within a small geographic area
Harlem Renaissance
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