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Red Scare

the rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920.

Palmer Raids

were a series of raidsconducted by the United States Department of Justice to capture, arrest and deport suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States

Teapot Dome Scandal

was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.

Assembly Line

a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

Volstead Act

defined as the act by Congress that enforced prohibition from 1919 to 1933. An example of the Volstead Act was the law that prevented people from selling alcohol.

Flappers

a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

Charles Lindbergh

United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Scopes Trial

was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

Jazz

a type of music of African American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century.

Harlem Renaissance

was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. ... The Harlem Renaissance was considered to be a rebirth of African-American arts.

Lost Generation

the generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years.

Margin Buying

Buying on margin is the purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker.

Black Thursday

October 24, 1929. On this date, a then-record number of shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange by panicked investors, marking the onset of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression.

Smoot-Hawley Tariff

1930, passed by the U.S. Congress; it brought the U.S.tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the United States. President Hoover desired a limited upward revision of tariff rates with general increases on farm products and adjustment of a few industrial rates.

Rugged Individualism

The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal.

New Deal

A group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s; the New Deal was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression.