Roaring Twenties - decade after World War I, National Broadcasting Company (NBC) - first national radio network, credit - way to purchase items by promising to make monthly payments until the item is paid in full, suffrage - right to vote, NAACP: - organization created to help achieve racial equality, Great Migration: - time when many Black Americans moved to find jobs, Harlem Renaissance: - movement begun in New York City to encourage Black culture in the areas of art, literature, and music, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): - organization formed to protect the constitutional rights of Americans, Indian Citizenship Act: - bill which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States, Babe Ruth: - most popular baseball player of the 1920s, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - leaders in the women's suffrage movement, Nineteenth Amendment: - Constitutional Amendment that gave women the right to vote, William Jennings Bryan: - lawyer who won the case against teaching evolution in Tennessee public schools, Warren G. Harding - twenty-ninth U.S. president; established Veterans' Bureau, Calvin Coolidge: - thirtieth U.S. president;known as "Silent Cal",

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