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What is The Roaring Twenties?
This was an increase of festivity, arts, and culture that led to the name of this decade
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Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This person wrote the Great Gatsby
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What is Sportswear?
this kind of wear was often worn as daywear
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Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
This person won the presidential election during the Great Depression
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What is deflation?
This is what happened to the worth of German currencies
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What is Surrealism?
This art style started in the 1920s depicts unconscious and trippy images
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Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This person wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
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What is Flapper Girls?
This is the name for a certain type of woman in the time known for their unconventional style and behavior, especially bobbed hair and short skirts.
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What are Shanty towns?
These were the names of the settlements people were forced to live in because they couldn't afford proper housing
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What is 1929?
This is the year the stocks crashed
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Who is Salvador Dali?
A painter that was most knowns for painting in the surrealist art style
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What is The Lost Generation?
The generation of writers during this time period were referred to by this name
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What is Robe De?
this kind of style had big, fancy, and feminine skirts
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What is 1932?
This was the year the Great Depression started
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What is German post-war debt?
This was why America was so wealthy before the stocks crashed
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What are Dadaism and Surrealism?
These two artistic, literary, and intellectual movements occurred in the 1920s and were instrumental in defining Modernism.
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What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
The quote, "There are years that ask questions and there are years that answer" is from this thing
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Who is Edward, Prince of Wales?
This person was the biggest fashion icon for men
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What is The New Deal?
This was what Roosevelt's policy for the government was called
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What is Low production rates?
This is what caused the stocks to crash
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What is Dadaism?
This art style/movement focused on the meaninglessness of society
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Who is Langston Hughes?
This person asked, "What happened to a dream deferred?"
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What is La Garçonne?
This was the other name for the flapper dress
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what is 12 million?
This many people were unemployed in America because of the Great Depression
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What is Raised tariffs?
This is what the government did that worsened the situation
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