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Who took low-paying jobs becuase of immigration restrictions?
Mexicans and Canadians
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Flew from New York to Paris
Who was Ameila Eahart?
flew from HI to CA
Who were Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpetier?
boxers
Who was Gertrude Ederle
swimmer, (won Olymip gold medal, swam across English channel)
What happened as a result of the decline in
number
of newspapers, (not popularity)?
gave America common culture
Who were Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong?
jazz players
Duke Ellington
middle class jazz player with Fats Waller
Edward Hopper and Rockwell Kent?
painters who showed harsher side of American life
Sinclair Lewis?
author who disapproved of American society
Eugene O'Neil?
playwright of dark tragedies
Lost Generation
name of a group of writers who thought the world was corrupt
Six prominent Lost Generation writers?
Dos Passos, MascLeish, Crane, Cummings, Hemingway, Fitzgerald
For whom was Harlem a cultural center?
African Americans
Who was a leading writer for the harlem writers?
James Weldon Johnson
Alain Locke, Zora Hurston, and Dorothy West all had what in common?
they were Harlem writers
What did Dorothy West write about?
being black and being a woman
Who came to Harlem as an actress?
Zora Hurston
What did Claude McKay and Countee Cullen have in common?
Harlem poets
What did Claude McKay write about?
protested discrimination
What did Langston Hughes do?
wrote many different types of literature. described joys and problems of being american and black
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American Experience: 1920s quiz
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1920s
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2010-12-15T01:37:20Z
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