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- What famous trial took place during the 1920s?
- The Scottsboro case took place in 1931.
- The 1920s flapper, with her thin silhouette, shortish skirt, long necklace, bobbed hair, & bee-stung lips was epitomized by who?
- Clara Bow was the quintessential flapper.
- After landing in Paris in 1927 after his nonstop solo flight from New York, what were Charles Lindbergh's words?
- "I am Charles A. Lindbergh."
- How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit in the 1927 season to break the major league record?
- 60. Ruth was later surpassed, of course, by home run champs McGwire & Sosa.
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Which of these figures did not live in Paris during the twenties?
William Faulkner
Josephine Baker
Gertrude Stein - William Faulkner lived a long, secluded life in Oxford, Mississippi.
- When was the 19th Amendment (granting women suffrage) passed?
- Woman's suffrage was first granted by Wyoming in 1869, followed by the constitutional amendment in 1920.
- What scandal took place in the 1920s?
- The Teapot Dome, an oil reserve scandal, began in 1921.
- What famous device was invented in the 1920s?
- Hubert C. Booth invented the electric vacuum cleaner in 1901.
- On what day did the stock market reached its absolute nadir during the crash of 1929?
- The event was nicknamed Black Tuesday.
- What famous film debut was in the twenties?
- James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein.
- what is prosperity?
- being successful or thriving =
- what are boom times?
- a period of swift economic growth
- what are economics?
- the study of how people use limited resources to meet wants and needs
- what is production?
- making stuff
- what is an assembly line?
- people stay still: things move on a belt
- What famous trial took place during the 1920s?
- The Scottsboro case took place in 1931.
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what is production?
- making stuff
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what are economics?
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the study of how people use limited resources to meet wants and needs
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what are boom times?
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a period of swift economic growth
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What scandal took place in the 1920s?
- The Teapot Dome, an oil reserve scandal, began in 1921.
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The 1920s flapper, with her thin silhouette, shortish skirt, long necklace, bobbed hair, & bee-stung lips was epitomized by who?
- Clara Bow was the quintessential flapper.
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How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit in the 1927 season to break the major league record?
- 60. Ruth was later surpassed, of course, by home run champs McGwire & Sosa.