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20 Cards in this Set
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Henry Ford
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Made the first auomobile called the Ford Model T.
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General Strike
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"A strike in which many unions participate in order to show worker unity" (pg.1030 Prentice Hall)
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Flapper
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A new fashion for women. Now women were showing more flesh in public by wearing shorter skirts than they did before.
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Red Scare
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"Fear of communism, solcialism, or otherso-called extreme ideas." (pg.1034)
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Evolution
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The theory that humans were devloped from apes.
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Harlem Rennaissance
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"Period in the early 1900's during which the literary, musical, and artistic expression of African Americans blossomed in Harlem." (pg.1030 Prentice Hall)
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Warren G. Harding
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The Ohio senator.He want the U.S. to become normal again after the war.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Were accused anarchists and were sentenced to death.
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Jazz age
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"The term for the 1920's, a period marked by the great popularity of jazz music, which was linked to changes in manner, moral, and fashions." (pg.1030 Prentice Hall)
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assembly line
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A line of workers that would work on a finshed product.
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anti-semitic
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"Hostily toward or dicrimination against Jewish people." (pg.1027
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nativism
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"Practice of favoring native born citizens over immagrants." (pg.1032 Prentice Hall) Native born Americans.
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censorship
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When the press got censored from some material.
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Marcus Garvey
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When he was jailed he gave some money to a streamline that went to Africa.
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Henry Ford
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Made the first auomobile called the Ford Model T.
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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
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A racist group that did hate crime towards minorities.
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Calvin Coolidge
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Wanted the U.S. to become normal after the war.
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Charles A. Lindenburg
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"He was a stunt flyer and air mail pilot. He tied to cross the Atlantic but his blimp caught on fire." (pg.597 Prentice Hall)
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Fundementalism
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"Chrisitian religous movement based on pamphlets issued between 1909 and 1914; holds that every word in the bible was inspired by God." (pg.1030)
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Scopes Trial
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"Tennessee trial of 1925 that challenged the laws against teaching evolution in public schools." (pg.1034
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