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Red Scare |
A "Red Scare" is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.
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Palmer Raids |
The Palmer Raids (1919–1920) involved mass arrests and deportation of radicals at the height of the post–World War I era red scare. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer encouraged the raids in the hope that they would advance his presidential ambitions.
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. competitive bidding led to Fall accepting bribes from the oil companies and became the first Cabinet member to go to prison.
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Assembly Line |
Used most famously by Ford, it is a process of organized work with each person doing a small portion repetitively |
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Volstead Act |
The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition
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Flappers |
the cute 1920's dancing girls who were actually kinda trashy |
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Charles Lindbergh |
1st solo nonstop flight over atlantic |
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Scopes trial |
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.[
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Jazz |
An informal, improvised music form that IS IN LALALAND WHICH IS AN AMAZING FILM 10 OUTTA 10 WOULD RECCOMEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Harlem Renaissance |
social and artistic explosion most often associated with african american culture |
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Lost generation |
the generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years.
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Margin Buying |
Buying on margin is the purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker.
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Black Thursday |
the day before black friday. Oct. 24, 1929 Dow Jones plummetted |
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SMoot- Hawley Tariff |
The Tariff Act of 1930 (codified at 19 U.S.C. ch. 4), otherwise known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and RepresentativeWillis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.
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rugged individualism |
each individual should be able to help themselves out, and that the government does not need to involve itself in people's economic lives nor in national economics in general.
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New Deal |
not the old deal. Social security basically. |
