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Red Scare
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Fear of communism, socialism, or other so-called extreme ideas
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Jazz age
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Term for the 1920s, a period marked by the great popularity of jazz music, which was linked to changes in manners, moral, and fashions
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Nativism
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Practice of favoring native-born citizens over immigrants
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Charles A. Lindbergh
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Aviotor who became an international hero when he made the first solo flight across the altantic ocean in 1927
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Sacco and Wanzetti
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Two italian immigrant shoe makers who were in connections with crimes and were both carrying guns at the time of thier arrest, and they were convicted and sentenced to death
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Assembly line
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Process in wich products were made by interchangeable parts on an assembly line
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Harlem renaissance
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Period in the early 1900s during which the literary, musical, and artistic expression of African Americans blossomed in Harlem
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Anti-semitic
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Hostility toward or discrimination against jews
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General Strike
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A strike in which many unions participate in order to show worker unity
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Marcus Garvey
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Motable African American named MArcus Garvey
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Fundamentalism
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Christian religious movement based on pamphlets issued betweeen 1909 and 1914; holds that every word in the bible ws inspired by god
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Flapper
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A type of young woman having a strait, slim silhoutte and a fondness for dancing and brash actionsl a symbol of the Jazz age
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Scopes trial
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Tennessee trial of 1925 that challenged the lawa against teaching evolution in public schools
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Warren G. Harding
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Twenty-ninth president of the united states, 1921-1923; presided over a short administration marked by corruption
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KKK
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Organiscation formed in the south in 1866, which unsed lynching and violence to tintimidate and control African americans and others
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Calvin Coolidge
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Thirteench president of the united states 1923-1929; promoted big business and opposed social aid
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Henry Ford
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created a more econimical way to make cars to make them cheaper and easier to produce so it would be more widely available to the general public
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Uniformity of product
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When all products were the sdame
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Censorship
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The process of blocking out unwanted material from the general public
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18th Amendment
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The 18th Amendment made alchohol illegal in the united states it was mainly pushed by women
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