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16 Cards in this Set
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Red Scare |
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. |
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Palmer Raids |
Series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice to capture, arrest and deport suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. |
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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. |
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Assembly Line |
A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled. |
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Volstead Act |
The act by Congress that enforced prohibition from 1919 to 1933. |
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Flappers |
A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. |
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Charles Lindbergh |
An American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. |
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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, which had made it unlawful to teach human ... |
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Jazz |
Type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm. |
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Harlem Renaissance |
A cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. |
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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 |
The purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker. |
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Black Thursday |
October 24, 1929. On this date, a then-record number of shares were traded on the 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 |
An act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930. |
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Rugged Individualism |
A phrase used often by Herbert Hoover during his time as president. |
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New Deal |
A group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. |
