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33 Cards in this Set
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Warren G Harding's "Return to Normalcy" |
the way things were before the war
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Calvin Coolidge's philosophy on gov't |
laissez faire gov't hands off of the economy |
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Andrew Melon's goals |
balance the budget |
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Herbert Hoover |
Secretary of Commerce passed laws to limit gov't interaction in the economy and passed high tariffs |
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NAACP |
the organization that focused on helping African Americans get equality in America |
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Marcus Garvey |
started the back to africa movement
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KKK |
hated african americans voting, jews, immigration, catholics
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Red Scare |
fear of communists and anarchists in america
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Mitchell Palmer |
Attorney General to the US. He started the Red Scare - the hunt for communists in America |
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Sacco & Vanzetti Trial |
Two Italian immigrants who were convicted and executed based on weak evidence because they were anarchists and immigrants from southern Europe |
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Anarchists |
people who believe in no government |
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National Origins Act |
Immigration Quota law - limited the amount of immigrants that came to America |
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Eugenics |
the belief that one race is genetically superior to another and people during this time period often tried to "breed" out unwanted characteristics |
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"The Monkey Trial" where John Scopes was put on trial in Tennessee for teaching evolution in public school. The point of the trial was really to bring attention to the fact that public education needed to break from teaching religion. |
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Fundementalism |
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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Harlem Renaissance |
\a period of African American artistic achievement in the 1920s , encouraged African American pride in their culture.
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Jazz |
the most popular music genre created by African Americans in Harlem
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Duke Ellington |
Famous African American Jazz musician who helped invent jazz |
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Louis Armstrong |
Famous African American Jazz musician who helped invent jazz
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Consumerism |
explosion of Americans buying new products that were offered with the help of credit |
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Credit |
the ability to buy goods with partial payments based on the trust that you would pay the money back later |
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Henry Ford |
the creator of the Model T car and the assembly line process in the auto industry. made cars affordable to all |
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Charles Lindberg |
the first man to fly across the Atlantic ocean |
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Amelia Earhart |
the first women to fly across the atlantic ocean |
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Flappers |
(in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
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Al Capone |
the famous gangster from Chicago who made his fortune selling illegal alcohol and running speakeasies |
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Prohibition |
the time in America when alcohol was illegal |
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19th Amendment |
the amendment that allow women the right to vote |
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Speakeasies |
illegal bars that sold illegal alcohol
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The Jazz Singer |
the first "talkie" - movie with sound |
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Babe Ruth |
the most famous professional baseball player of the 1920s and all time |
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talkies |
a movie with words
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Palmer Raids |
raids conducted by the FBI looking for communist spies in America |
