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16 Cards in this Set
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Red Scare |
The fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. |
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Palmer Raids |
Involved mass arrests and deportation of radicals. |
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company |
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Assembly Line |
factory workers |
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Volstead Act |
It was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States. |
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Flappers |
Young women who dressed in shorter clothing |
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Charles Lindbergh |
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
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Scopes Trial |
An American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act |
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Jazz |
A form of American music that grew out of African-Americans' musical traditions at the beginning of the twentieth century |
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Harlem Renaissance |
The name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s |
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Lost Generation |
the generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I |
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Margin Buying |
borrowing the balance from a bank or broker. |
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Black Thursday |
New York Stock Exchange by panicked investors, marking the onset of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression. |
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff |
The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. |
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Rugged Individualism |
can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal. |
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New Deal |
was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression. |
