1920's America

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The period in 1920's America where the selling of alcohol was prohibited
Prohibition
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Famous silent film actor
Charlie Chaplin
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Name of a famous American gangster who featured on the cover of TIME magazine
Al Capone
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Site of the New York stock exchange which crashed in 1929
Wall Street
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American President who took office in 1929
Herbert Hoover
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Peace keeping organisation proposed by Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
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Another term for illegally produced alcohol
Moonshine
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Group which aimed to spread racial intolerance in America
Ku Klux Klan
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Another term for the smuggling of alcohol
Bootlegging
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Type of car mass-produced by Henry Ford
Model T
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Act passed in 1924 to put controls on immigration
National Origins Act
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Word often used to describe the 1920s
Roaring
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Type of music that became popular in America
Jazz
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Act which put high taxes on the import of foreign goods
Fordney McCumber Tariff
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Another term for the new type of non-silent films
talkies
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Famous silent film actor

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Charlie Chaplin

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Name of a famous American gangster who featured on the cover of TIME magazine

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Card 4

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Site of the New York stock exchange which crashed in 1929

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Card 5

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American President who took office in 1929

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