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Red Scare
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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
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The Palmer Raids involved mass arrests and deportation of radicals at the height of the post red scare.
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Teapot dome scandal |
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
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Assembly Line
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Series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is assembled.
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Volstead Act
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Enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States.
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Flappers
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A fashionable young woman enjoying herself and testing conventional standards of behavior.
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Charles Lindbergh
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Aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
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Scopes Trial
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Scopes Trial
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